Discuss What an Auditor Should Look for in Testing for Payments

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Essay

Discuss what an auditor should look for in testing for payments to fictitious vendors and how ACL can be used to assist the process.

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Definitions:

Factory Overhead Applied

The allocation of estimated manufacturing overhead costs to individual units of production based on a predetermined rate.

Underapplied

A situation where the actual costs are higher than the costs applied or allocated, typically in manufacturing overhead.

Job Order Cost Accounting

A system used to assign production costs to an individual product or batches of products, typically when each product's design is sufficiently unique.

Separate Record

An accounting practice where transactions are recorded individually, allowing for clearer tracing and tracking of specific financial movements or activities.