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ISBN: 9781260299366
Author: Ray Whittington, Kurt Pany
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 42OQ
Smith, Inc.
Rachel Robertson wishes to use mean-per-unit sampling to evaluate the reasonableness of the book value of the accounts receivable of Smith, Inc. Smith has 10,000 receivable accounts with a total book value of $1,500,000. Robertson estimates the population’s standard deviation to be equal to $25. After examining the overall audit plan, the auditors believe that the account’s tolerable misstatement is $60,000, and that a risk of incorrect rejection of 5 percent and a risk of incorrect acceptance of 10 percent are appropriate.
Required:
- a. Calculate the required
sample size . - b. Assuming the following results:
Book value of items in sample = $149
Average audited value of items in sample = $146
Standard deviation of sample = $28
use the mean-per-unit method to:
- (1) Calculate the point estimate of the account’s audited value.
- (2) Calculate the projected misstatement for the population.
- (3) Calculate the adjusted allowance for sampling risk.
- (4) State the auditors’ conclusion in this situation (accept or reject).
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