PRINCIPLES OF AUDITING & OTHER ASSURANC
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Author: WHITTINGTON
Publisher: MCG
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Chapter 21, Problem 46P
a.
To determine
Prepare a memo to your senior auditor listing at least eight questions that should be used to guide and direct the preliminary survey.
b.
To determine
Describe the phases of the audit that would be performed after the preliminary survey is completed.
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You have recently been hired as the assistant controller for Stanton Industries. Your immediate superior is the controller who, in turn, reports to the vice president of finance. The controller has assigned you the task of preparing the year-end adjustments. For receivables, you have prepared an aging of accounts receivable and have applied historical percentages to the balances of each of the age categories. The analysis indicates that an appropriate balance for Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts is $180,000. The existing balance in the allowance account prior to any adjustment is a $20,000 credit balance.After showing your analysis to the controller, he tells you to change the aging category of a large account from over 120 days to current status and to prepare a new invoice to the customer with a revised date that agrees with the new aging category. This will change the required allowance for uncollectible accounts from $180,000 to $135,000. Tactfully, you ask the controller for…
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