An Entity's Financial Statements Were Misstated Over a Period of Years

question 47

Multiple Choice

An entity's financial statements were misstated over a period of years due to large amounts of revenue being recorded in journal entries that involved debits and credits to an illogical combination of accounts.The auditor could most likely have been alerted to this fraud by

• A) Scanning the general journal for unusual entries.
• B) Performing a revenue cutoff test at year-end.
• C) Tracing a sample of journal entries to the general ledger.
• D) Examining documentary evidence of sales returns and allowances recorded after year-end.

Understand the limitations of confidence intervals and common misconceptions.

Understand the concept of confidence intervals, including their limits, and the role of confidence levels in statistical inference.

Grasp how the size of the sample and the population standard deviation influence the margin of error in confidence intervals.

Know how to construct confidence intervals for population means and proportions using sample data.

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