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Auditing and Assurance Services (16th Edition)
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Author: Alvin A. Arens, Randal J. Elder, Mark S. Beasley, Chris E. Hogan
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You are auditing the accounts receivable for Conor Company as of December 31, 2022 One of your procedures was to send positive confirmations to a sample of 50 accounts. Of those 50 confirmations, 40 have been positively confirmed without comments, 7 had minor differences that have been cleared satisfactorily. The remaining 3 had the following comments:
“We received $6,000 of goods on consignment on November 20, 2022. We have not sold them yet.”
“We received these goods on January 5, 2023 and mailed a check on January 7, 2023.”
“The balance of $2,000 was paid on December 10, 2022.”
For each of these comments, identify the steps that you would take to clear (resolve) them.
1. An auditor decided to render sales cut-off as part of auditing an audit client’s accounts receivable. Entries in the Sales Journal from December 16, 2016 to the subsequent period January 15, 2017 were vouched to the supporting documents. Which of the following is correct regarding the December entries?
A. December sales journal entries vouched back to the sales invoice provide evidence about the occurrence/existence of Sales/Accounts Receivables.
B. December sales journal entries vouched back to the delivery receipts provide evidence about the occurrence/existence of Sales/Accounts Receivables.
C. December sales journal entries vouched back to the sales invoice provide evidence about the completeness of Sales/Accounts Receivables.
D. December sales journal entries vouched back to the delivery receipts provide evidence about the valuation of Sales/Accounts Receivables.
E. None of the above.
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An auditor decided to render sales cut-off as part of auditing an audit client's accounts receivable. Entries in the Sales Journal from December 16, 2016 to the subsequent period January 15, 2017 were vouched to the supporting documents. Which of the following is correct regarding the December entries? a. December sales journal entries vouched back to the sales invoice provide evidence about the occurrence/existence of Sales/Accounts Receivables.b. December sales journal entries vouched back to the delivery receipts provide evidence about the occurrence/existence of Sales/Accounts Receivables.c. December sales journal entries vouched back to the sales invoice provide evidence about the completeness of Sales/Accounts Receivables.d. December sales journal entries vouched back to the delivery receipts provide evidence about the valuation of Sales/Accounts Receivables.e. None of the above.
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