EBK AUDITING & ASSURANCE SERVICES: A SY
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To discuss: The basic inventory-auditing and use ofgeneralized audit software package to perform such procedure.
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An auditor is examining the financial statements of a wholesale cosmetics distributor with an inventory consisting of thousands of individual items. The distributor keeps its inventory in
its own distribution centre and in two public warehouses. An electronic inventory file is maintained on a computer disk, and at the end of each business day the file is updated. Each record of the inventory file contains the following data:
· Item number.
· Location of item.
· Description of item.
· Quantity on hand.
· Cost per item.
· Date of last purchase.
· Date of last sale.
· Quantity sold during year.
The auditor plans to observe the distributor's physical count of inventory as of a given date. The auditor will have available a computer tape of the data on the inventory file on the date of the physical count and a generalized audit software package.
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The auditor is planning to perform basic inventory-auditing procedures. Identify the basic inventory-auditing procedures and describe…
Inventory Procedures Using Computer-Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs). You are conducting an audit of the financial statements of a wholesale cosmetics distributor with an inventory consisting of thousands of individual items. The distributor keeps its inventory in its own distribution center and in two public warehouses. A perpetual inventory computer database is maintained on a computer disk. The database is updated at the end of each business day. Each record of the perpetual inventory database contains the following data:Item number.Location of item.Description of item.Quantity on hand.Cost per item.Date of last purchase.Date of last sale.Quantity sold during year.You are planning to observe the distributor’s physical count of inventories as of a given date. The client will provide a computer file of the preceding items taken from its database as of the date of the physical count. Your firm has a computer audit plan that will be ideal for analyzing the inventory…
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