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 16.29P
To determine
Concept Introduction:
Audit procedure is a method performed by the auditor, to gather the possible document that helps the auditors to make a strong conclusion. The audit procedure helps to determine the nature of the financial information provided by the customers and all kinds of risks that occur in the financial statements. Audit procedure performs different test of controls to avoid the risks.
To discuss: The appropriate audit procedure for the selected assertions.
Correct match of selected assertion with the audit procedure is mentioned below:
| Specific Assertion | Audit Procedure | |
| a) | Verify that investment are properly described and classified in the financial statement (Presentation and disclosure-classification) | The auditor needs to develop an audit procedure to check that is transferred from the current to the noncurrent investment portfolio, that have been properly recorded. |
| b) | Verify that recorded investments represent investment actually owned at the | In this assertion, the auditor needs to obtain positive confirmations of the balance sheet date of investment held by independent custodians. |
| c) | Verify that investment are properly valued at the lower of cost or market at the balance sheet date (valuation and allocation) | Out of the |
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1. An auditor most likely would review an entity’s periodic accounting for the numerical sequence of shipping documents and invoices to support management’s financial statement assertion of
a. Valuation
b. Completeness
c. Existence and occurrence
d. Rights and obligations
Working papers document the audit evidence collected by the auditors during the financial statement audit. The lead schedule for
accounts payable will appear at the beginning of the accounts payable section of the audit file.
Which of the following would be included on the lead schedule? (Several choices may be correct.)
✔ Pre-adjusted current year's balance and prior year's balance
☐ Details of transactions tested for payables
☐ Conclusion reached on the overall opinion of the balance in accounts payable
✓ Agreement of current year's balance to payables balance on trial balance
✓ Difference between pre-adjusted balance and prior year balance
☐ Documentation showing the vouching of specific accounts payable balances
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2. Explain the procedure that an auditor should apply to identify subsequent events up to the date of the auditor’s report.
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