Assume That the Audit Team Wishes to Determine the Extent

question 50

Multiple Choice

Assume that the audit team wishes to determine the extent to which a particular control policy was functioning as intended.Identifying applications of the control throughout the period under audit would be most closely related to which of the following steps in sampling?

• A)Determining the objective of sampling.
• B)Defining the characteristic of interest.
• C)Defining the population.
• D)Determining the sample size.

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