For Each of the Following Potential Misstatements, Provide One Potential

question 136

Essay

For each of the following potential misstatements, provide one potential audit test that could be used to detect the misstatement.
• sales included in the journals for which there was no shipment
• sale recorded more than once
• shipments made to nonexistent customers and recorded as sales

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Definitions:

Poverty Line

The minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country.

Invisible Hand

A metaphor introduced by Adam Smith to describe how an individual's pursuit of self-interest in a free-market economy inadvertently benefits society as a whole.

Allocation of Resources

The process of allocating resources among competing uses or projects in order to achieve desired outcomes.

Poverty Rate

The percentage of the population whose family income falls below an absolute level called the poverty line.