Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6.6, Problem 6.89ACI
Auditing sampling methods. Traditionally. auditors have relied to a great extent on sampling techniques, rather than 100% audits. to help them test and evaluate the financial records of a client firm. When sampling is used to obtain an estimate of the total dollar value of an account—the account balance—the examination is known as a substantive test (Audit Sampling—AICPA Audit Guide. 2015). In order to evaluate the reasonableness of a firm’s stated total value of its parts inventory, an auditor randomly samples 100 of the total of 500 parts In stock, prices each part, and reports the results shown in the table.
| Part Number | Part Price | Sample Size |
| 002 | $ 108 | 3 |
| 101 | 55 | 2 |
| 832 | 500 | 1 |
| 077 | 73 | 10 |
| 688 | 300 | 1 |
| 910 | 54 | 4 |
| 839 | 92 | 6 |
| 121 | 833 | 5 |
| 271 | 50 | 9 |
| 399 | 125 | 12 |
| 761 | 1 000 | 2 |
| 093 | 62 | 8 |
| 505 | 205 | 7 |
| 597 | 88 | 11 |
| 830 | 100 | 19 |
- a. a Give a point estimate of the
mean value of the parts inventory - b. Find the estimated standard error of the point estimate of part a.
- c. Construct an approximate 95% confidence interval for the mean value of the parts inventory.
- d. The firm reported a mean parts inventory value of $300. What does your confidence interval of part c suggest about the reasonablness of the firm’s reported figure? Explain.
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