This Question Will Represent a Statement, Question, Excerpt, or Comment

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Multiple Choice

This question will represent a statement, question, excerpt, or comment taken from various parts of an auditor's documentation file. Letter choices A-P represent a list of the likely sources of the statement, question, excerpt, or comment. Select, as the best answer for each item, the most likely source. Select only one source for each item. The timetable set by management to complete our audit was unreasonable considering the failure of the company's personnel to complete schedules on a timely basis and delays in providing necessary information.

• A) Practitioner's report on management's assertion about an entity's compliance with specified requirements.
• B) Auditor's communications on significant deficiencies in internal control.
• C) Audit inquiry letter to legal counsel.
• D) Lawyer's response to audit inquiry letter.
• E) Communication from those charged with governance to the auditor.
• F) Auditor's communication to those charged with governance (other than with respect to significant deficiencies in internal control
• G) Report on the application of accounting principles.
• H) Auditor's engagement letter.
• I) Letter for underwriters.
• J) Accounts receivable confirmation request.
• K) Request for bank cutoff statement.
• L) Explanatory paragraph of an auditor's report on financial statements.
• M) Partner's engagement review notes.
• N) Management representation letter.
• O) Successor auditor's communication with predecessor auditor.
• P) Predecessor auditor's communication with successor auditor.

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Definitions:

FIFO Method

"First In, First Out," an inventory valuation method where goods that are first added to inventory are the first ones considered sold, used in accounting to calculate cost of goods sold and ending inventory.

Equivalent Units

A concept in cost accounting used to express the amount of materials, labor, and overhead a company has put into production in terms of fully finished units.

First-In, First-Out Method

An inventory valuation method where the cost of the earliest goods purchased is the first to be recognized in determining cost of goods sold.

Equivalent Units

A concept used in process costing that converts partially completed units into a number of fully equivalent units for the purposes of accounting.