Deck 11: Substantive Testing and Income Statement Accounts

Question 1

An example of a substantive test always performed for costs and expenses is obtaining detailed analysis of selected accounts and tracing the details to the source data.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Ensuring that all costs and expenses in the income statement are properly supported as charges against the entity relates to the classification assertion.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The completeness assertion relates to the audit objective that sales and other revenues are stated in the profit and loss at the appropriate amounts.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

When the inherent risk and control risk assessment is high:

A) there are no controls tested or relied upon.
B) minimal substantive tests are performed.
C) the amount of substantive testing is significant.
D) Both a and c

Question 5

Testing the pricing and mathematical accuracy of sales invoices is an example of a substantive test of transactions in the sales process.

Question 6

The auditor uses their professional judgement, knowledge of the client and risk assessment for each significant account to determine the timing and extent of testing.

Question 7

Occurrence is not typically a significant assertion as the primary objective in testing for occurrence is to ensure that costs and expenses are not overstated.

Question 8

The key audit assertions for cost of sales and expenses are rights and obligations and occurrence.

Question 9

Analytical procedures involve:

A) the investigation of identified fluctuations and relationships that are inconsistent with other information.
B) evaluations of financial information made by a study of plausible relationships among financial and non-financial data.
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above

Question 10

Control risk is:

A) the susceptibility of an assertion to a misstatement that could be material assuming there are no related controls.
B) the risk that a client's system of internal controls will not prevent or detect a material misstatement.
C) the risk that the auditor's testing procedures will not be effective in detecting a material misstatement.
D) the risk that fraud has occurred.

Question 11

Purchases testing is performed most efficiently by the use of controls testing.

Question 12

Substantive procedures are designed to detect material misstatements at the assertion level.

Question 13

When inherent risk and control risk are assessed to be low, the level of substantive procedures required to address any remaining detection risk is limited.

Question 14

Control risk is the risk that an auditor expresses an inappropriate audit opinion when a financial report is materially misstated.

Question 15

Testing the balance sheet substantively will provide reasonable assurance on the income statement accounts.

Question 16

Substantive procedures are also known as:

A) tests of details.
B) compliance tests.
C) tests of subsequent events.
D) tests of controls.

Question 17

Which type of substantive procedure do auditors ordinarily use when testing income statement accounts?

A) Confirmations
B) recalculations
C) Analytical procedures
D) Observations

Question 18

Testing the account classification of credit memos tests the accuracy assertion for the sales returns process.

Question 19

Sales revenue is typically not significant due to its size.

Question 20

The risk that an auditor expresses an inappropriate audit opinion when a financial report is materially misstated is known as:

A) engagement risk.
B) audit risk.
C) client business risk.
D) detection risk.

Question 21

Which of the following substantive tests of payroll transactions does not relate to the accuracy assertion?

A) Reconciling the accrued payroll balance to the amount in the payroll ledger for the corresponding balance
B) Testing the postings of totals in the payroll ledger to the general ledger
C) Testing the extensions of wage rates times the hours worked
D) Comparing the hours paid with the record of hours worked

Question 22

The occurrence assertion for sales relates to which of the following audit objectives?

A) Sales and other revenues are properly classified, described and disclosed in the financial report
B) Sales and other revenues are stated in the profit and loss at the appropriate amounts
C) All sales and other revenues that accrued to the entity during the period are included in the income statement
D) All sales included in the income statement represent the exchange of goods or services with customers during the period

Question 23

Testing the postings of the sales ledger to the general ledger and the trade receivables sub-ledger relates to which assertion?

A) Occurrence
B) Completeness
C) Accuracy
D) None of the above

Question 24

The level of substantive procedures will be limited when:

A) the inherent and control risk assessment is low.
B) there are no controls tested or relied upon.
C) the inherent and control risk assessment is high.
D) the client requests the auditor to perform limited procedures.

Question 25

Sales revenue is typically significant due to:

A) the overall inherent risk associated with revenue.
B) the volume of transactions that flow through the account.
C) its size.
D) All of the above

Question 26

What are the three audit assertions that are important to ensuring that the auditor has gained sufficient and appropriate audit evidence for sales revenue?

Question 27

Discuss the importance of the completeness assertion as it relates to auditing sales revenue.

Question 28

Explain the key objective of substantive testing and the responses from auditors when errors or exceptions are identified during testing.

Question 29

The audit objective that costs and expenses are stated in the income statement at the appropriate amounts relates to which assertion?

A) Completeness
B) Occurrence
C) Classification
D) Accuracy

Question 30

Bad debts expense is ordinarily tested as part of the testing of the valuation of:

A) trade payables.
B) trade receivables.
C) cash at bank.
D) inventory.

Question 31

A simple way of testing which period a sale should be recorded in is to:

A) trace the sale through to the accounting records.
B) observe the account receivable clerk record the sale.
C) vouch the sale to the delivery documentation for the sale of goods.
D) None of the above

Question 32

Substantive tests of costs and expenses that are always performed include:

A) reviewing interim financial reports and investigating fluctuations or the absence of expected changes.
B) comparing the current year's expenses to the prior years actual and the current years budgeted amounts.
C) obtaining detailed analysis of selected costs and expense accounts and trace the details to the source data.
D) All of the above

Question 33

Explain the various components of risk in the audit risk model and the interrelationship between the various components.

Question 34

Which of the following are examples of substantive procedures in auditing revenue that are always performed?

A) Testing the cut-off of revenues
B) Comparing the monthly income statements to budget and investigating any unexpected fluctuations
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above

Question 35

Explain the principal objectives in auditing costs and expenses.

Question 36

When substantive tests performed identify errors or exceptions, the auditor's first response is to:

A) qualify the audit report.
B) report the client to ASIC.
C) understand why the exception or error has arisen.
D) None of the above

Question 37

The key audit assertions when auditing cost of sales and expenses include:

A) cut-off.
B) completeness.
C) accuracy.
D) All of the above

Question 38

The accuracy of cost of sales and expenses is verified by:

A) vouching recorded amounts to supporting documentation.
B) sending confirmation requests to the client's creditors.
C) tracing supporting documentation to the accounting records.
D) All of the above

Question 39

The three audit assertions that are important to ensure the auditor has gained sufficient and appropriate audit evidence for sales revenue are:

A) completeness, accuracy and occurrence.
B) occurrence, accuracy and cut-off.
C) cut-off, accuracy and completeness.
D) classification, accuracy and completeness.

Question 40

Comparing supplier/creditor invoices to the initial record of entry relates to which assertion?

A) Completeness
B) Accuracy
C) Cut-off
D) Existence

Question 41

Identify situations where the understatement of sales can be a risk for certain clients and how auditors should react to such risk.

Question 42

Explain the nature of the accounting fraud that was committed by the Sunbeam Corporation in the 1990s. What procedures can auditors use to detect such fraud?

Question 43

Explain the nature of and motivations for various approaches for companies to manipulate their profits through the use of expenses.