An Auditor Is Conducting the Audit of the Financial Statements

question 13

Essay

An auditor is conducting the audit of the financial statements of a retail department store.The auditor is aware that he must obtain sufficient appropriate evidence with respect to various audit assertions associated with management assertions and thus with material financial statement amounts.
The following is a list of specific audit procedures the auditor plans to perform:
1.Send negative external confirmation requests to a large sample of the store's customers who have balances due on account at year end.
2.Perform test counts of goods on hand during the company's normal physical inventory taking,one month prior to the year end.
3.Examine receiving reports dated prior to the year end that have not been matched to vendor invoices.
4.Review paid invoices and supporting documents for amounts classified as repair and maintenance expense for large or unusual items.
5.Examine audited financial statements of several foreign companies in which the client owns shares,and which are being held as temporary investments.
Required:
For each of the five audit procedures listed,describe only the PRIMARY management assertion being tested,the PRIMARY audit assertion being tested,and the quality of evidence (high,medium,low)obtained,explaining WHY the evidence is the quality level you specify.

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Definitions:

Characteristics

Distinctive or identifying features or qualities of a person, object, or phenomenon.

Hypotheses

Proposed explanations made on the basis of limited evidence as starting points for further investigation.

Theory

A system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

Nondirectional Research Hypothesis

A hypothesis that predicts a relationship or effect but does not specify the direction of the relationship.