As part of the audit of Manor Company, you are assigned to review and test the payroll transactions of the Galena plant.

As part of the audit of Manor Company, you are assigned to review and test the payroll transactions of the Galena plant. Your tests show that all numerical items were accurate. The proper hourly rates were used and the wages and deductions were calculated correctly. The payroll register was properly footed, totaled, and posted. ...continues

Auditing the revenue cycle

What cutoff tests are performed for accounts receivable, how are they performed, and to what account audit objectives does the evidence pertain?

Auditing the transaction cycles

Controls over cash receipts processing at a church. You have been asked by the board of trustees of a local church to review its accounting procedures. As a part of this review, you have prepared the following comments relating to the collections made at weekly services and recordkeeping for members' contributions: 1. The ...continues

Auditing accounts receivables

Why is important to place emphasis on the existence and rights (ownership)assertions when auditing accounts receivable? Whic audit procedures are usually the most useful for auditing the existence and rights assertions? What analytical procedures might be informative regarding the existence assertion?

Auditing payroll cycle

What are the common errors and frauds in the personnel and payroll cycle? Which control characteristic are auditors looking for to prevent or detect these errors and frauds? What features of the payroll system could be expected to prevent or detect payment of a fictitious employee? What about the omission of payment to an emp ...continues

Considering the Going-Concern Assumption

What options does a business owner have when approached by an auditor, who has a friendly client-auditor relationship between the two, wanting to discuss the issue of a going-concern report and footnote disclosure on the financial reports when the business at hand has gone south for the past year in sales? How might a going-c ...continues

You have been asked by the board of trustees of a local church to review its accounting procedures.

14-28 (Controls over cash receipts processing at a church) You have been asked by the board of trustees of a local church to review its accounting procedures. As a part of this review, you have prepared the following comments relating to the collections made at weekly services and recordkeeping for members’ contributions: 1. ...continues

Control activities in payroll processing

As part of the audit of Manor Company, you are assigned to review and test the payroll transactions of the Galena plant. Your tests show that all numerical items were accurate. The proper hourly rates were used, and the wages and deductions were calculated correctly. The payroll register was properly footed, totaled, and post ...continues

Evaluation of Jameson Company's internal controls - raw materials and supplies inventory.

The Jameson Company produces a variety of chemical products for use by plastics manufactures. The plant operates on two shifts, five days per week, with maintenance work performed on the third shift and on Saturday as required. An audit conducted by the staff of the new corporate internal audit department has recently been com ...continues

Can you think of any populations that an auditor might want to examine without sampling?

Can you think of any populations that an auditor might want to examine without sampling?