Your Uncle Bob, a CPA, Has Recently Started Auditing and He

question 23

Essay

Your uncle Bob, a CPA, has recently started auditing and he wants your advice on some tests of sales transactions he is conducting. Bob selected a haphazard sample of 15 sales with a total book value of $75,000. In his sample, he found a total of $500 in net overstatement errors. The total sales balance per book is $10,000,000. Overall materiality for the engagement is $300,000. Tolerable misstatement for sales is $70,000. If the sample results indicate that Bob's best estimate of total misstatement in sales is $35,000, can Bob safely conclude that no additional work is needed in this area? Include in your answer a clear discussion of how sample results are compared to tolerable misstatement.

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Definitions:

Operant Behavior

Behavior that is controlled by its consequences, including rewards and punishments, in the context of operant conditioning a type of learning process.

Associative Learning

The method through which a person grasps the association between two signals or between an action and its result.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction, often occurring in the absence of further conditioning.

Acquisition

The process of gaining a new skill, knowledge, behavior, or object through experience, practice, or the act of obtaining.