What Types of Audit Reports Are Issued for Financial Statement

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Essay

What types of audit reports are issued for financial statement audits? Are all of those types of reports likely to be issued for audits of public companies? If not,
which ones are not likely used and why?

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Definitions:

Weighted-Average

A calculation method that takes into account the varying degrees of importance of the numbers in a dataset.

Gross Profit Method

A method used to determine the value of the ending inventory using a predetermined gross profit rate. This method can be used to determine value of ending inventory if a loss from fire occurs.

Gross Profit

The financial metric calculated by subtracting cost of goods sold from total net sales, reflecting the efficiency of a company in managing its manufacturing costs.

LIFO

LIFO (Last In, First Out) is an inventory costing method where the most recently produced or purchased items are the first to be expensed.