A) Top-stratum items are population items whose book value likely exceed the Sampling Interval and  would be all selected for examination and evaluation during the audit.

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Which of the following statements is false?
 
A) Top-stratum items are population items whose book value likely exceed the Sampling Interval and  would be all selected for examination and evaluation during the audit.
B) Because the auditor knows the full amount of errors in the top stratum (since all items are evaluated), no estimate of errors or projection to the population for the errors in the top stratum is required.
C) The auditor's evaluation of the most likely misstatements in the sample reflects the sum of the misstatements from the top-stratum and the projected misstatement derived from the each lower-stratum items
D) None of the above
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