Individual Income Taxes
43rd Edition
ISBN: 9780357109731
Author: Hoffman
Publisher: CENGAGE LEARNING - CONSIGNMENT
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The auditor should test for unrecorded retirements of properties by _______________. This procedure is relevant for validating the __________ assertion over the properties.
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Tracing physical assets observed while conducting an ocular inspection to the records; completeness.
Vouching items in the property records to the acquisition source documents; existence.
Recomputing the depreciation charges on the properties; valuation.
Selecting items in the property records and then tracing them back to the physical assets while conducting an ocular inspection of the properties, existence.
Using the tax rules for abandoned property, recommend the tax treatment of any potential losses incurred to the taxpayer and appropriate documentation (proof of abandonment) for an audit.
When an independent valuation expert advises an entity that the salvage value of its plant and machinery
had drastically changed and thus the change is material, the entity should
(a) Retrospectively change the depreciation charge based on the revised salvage value.
(b) Change the depreciation charge and treat it as a correction of an error.
(c) Change the annual depreciation for the current year and future years.
(d) Ignore the effect of the change on annual depreciation, because changes in salvage values would normally affect the future only since these are expected to be recovered in future.
Chapter 17 Solutions
Individual Income Taxes
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