Auditing & Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach (Irwin Accounting)
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ISBN: 9780077732509
Author: William F Messier Jr, Steven M. Glover Associate Professor, Douglas F. Prawitt Associate Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 16, Problem 16.14MCQ
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Companies usually do various transactions with banks involving borrowing loans. So, auditor needs to collect information about loans given by bank to company. In order to verify the transactions withbank, auditor makes confirmation request and send it to bank for verification of existence of transaction occur during the year.
To choose: The correct option for the reason that an auditor sends confirmation request to bank under the audit.
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Which of the following is an effective audit procedure that an auditor might use to detect kiting between intercompany banks?a. Review the composition of authenticated deposit slips.b. Review subsequent bank statements.c. Prepare a schedule of the bank transfers.d. Prepare a year-end bank reconciliation.
When an auditor sends out bank confirmations at the year-end audit, they are performing a(n)
O analytical procedure.
O test of the details of balances.
O key item test.
O test of the details of transactions.
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Which of the following would the auditor most likely perform when auditing the bank reconciliation for a December 31 year-end audit?
a. Confirm the audit client’s book balance shown on the bank reconciliation directly with the bank.
b. Verify the audit client’s book balance shown on the bank reconciliation to the Cash balance in the audit client’s trial balance and general ledger.
c. Subtract the outstanding check amounts from the audit client’s book balance.
d. Verify the deposits in transit amounts to the audit client’s December bank statement.
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