An Auditor Confirms a Representative Number of Open Accounts Receivable

question 65

Multiple Choice

An auditor confirms a representative number of open accounts receivable as of December 31 and investigates exceptions and comments noted by respondents.By this procedure,the auditor is most likely to learn of which of the following?

• A)One of the cashiers has been covering a personal embezzlement by lapping.
• B)One of the sales clerks has not been preparing charge slips for credit sales to family and friends.
• C)One of the EDP control clerks has been removing all sales invoices applicable to his account from the data file.
• D)The credit manager has misappropriated remittances from customers whose accounts have been written off.

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Definitions:

Support Department

A division within an organization that provides essential services to other departments but does not directly contribute to profit, such as IT or HR.

Cost Allocation

The process of distributing or assigning indirect costs to different departments, products, or projects.

Reciprocal Method

An approach in cost accounting used to allocate service department costs to production departments, considering the mutual services exchanged between service departments.

Reciprocal Services

Refers to the mutual exchange of services between departments within an organization to support each other's operations.