ACC 492 Entire Course (2020 Syllabus)

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ACC 492 Final Exam (All Possible Questions) (2019 Syllabus)

ACC 492 Week 1 Current Issue Summary

ACC 492 Week 1 Current Issue Summary Behind the Numbers Insights
into Large Audit Firm Sampling Policies

(2019 Syllabus)

ACC 492 Week 2 Team Assignment

ACC 492 Week 2 Team Assignment (Amazon)

ACC 492 Week 2 Textbook Problem 23-20, 14-20, 14-26 (New
Syllabus 2019)

ACC 492 Week 2 Current Issue Summary Auditing Cash, Financial

Instruments, Sales, or Receivables

ACC 492 Week 2 Current Issue Summary Failing to Find Fraud When
Auditing Cash (2019 Syllabus)

ACC 492 Week 3 Current Issue Summary Auditing Inventory,

Warehouse, or Payroll Cycles
ACC 492 Week 3 Current Issue Summary Keep Ghosts off the Payroll
(2019 Syllabus)

ACC 492 Week 3 textbook assignment 20-20, 21-21

ACC 492 Week 3 Team Assignment Inventory, Warehousing, and

Payroll accounts and cycles (Walmart, 2000 Words)

ACC 492 Week 3 Team Assignment Inventory, Warehousing, and

Payroll accounts and cycles (Amazon)

ACC 492 Week 4 Textbook Problem 18-26

ACC 492 Week 4 Current Issue Summary auditing acquisitions,
payments, property plant and equipment

ACC 492 Week 4 Current Issue Summary Management’s Report on

Internal Control over Financial Reporting (2019 Syllabus)

ACC 492 Week 4 Team Assignment Acquisition, Payment, Property

Plant, and Equipment Notes Payable and Owner’s Equity and cycles
(Walmart)

ACC 492 Week 4 Team Assignment Acquisition, Payment, Property

Plant, and Equipment Notes Payable and Owner’s Equity and cycles
(Amazon)
ACC 492 Week 5 Assignment importance of considering contingent
liabilities, letters from client lawyers (Walmart)

ACC 492 Week 5 Assignment importance of considering contingent

liabilities, letters from client lawyers (Amazon)

ACC 492 Week 5 Final Audit Paper (Walmart)

ACC 492 Week 5 Final Audit Paper (Amazon)

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ACC 492 Final Exam (All Possible Questions) (2020

Syllabus)
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1. Which of the following tests are typically not necessary when auditing
a client’s schedule of recorded disposals?

Footing the schedule.

Tracing schedule totals to the general ledger.

Tracing cost and accumulated depreciation of the disposals to the

property master file.

All of the above are necessary.

2. _______accumulate costs by individual jobs as material is issued into

production and labor costs are incurred.

Just-in-time production systems

Job order cost systems

Process cost systems

Manufacturing systems

3. The introductory paragraph of the standard audit report for a non-

public company performs which functions?

I. It states the CPA has performed an audit.

II. It lists the financial statements being audited.

III. It states the financial statements are the responsibility of the
auditor.

I and II

I and III

II and III

I, II and III
4. Auditors are especially concerned with three aspects of internal
control for the sales and collection cycle. Which of the following is not
one of their major concerns?

Controls related to the allowance for uncollectible accounts

Controls that prevent or detect embezzlements

Controls over sales discounts

Controls over cutoff

5. Which of the following accounts is not associated with the acquisition

and payment cycle?

Accrued property taxes

Income tax expense

Common stock

Property, plant and equipment

6. For audit evidence to be compelling to the auditor it must be sufficient
and appropriate. Which statement below is not correct regarding the
appropriateness of audit evidence?

Evidence obtained from independent sources outside the entity is

generally more reliable than evidence secured solely within the entity.

An auditor’s opinion, to be economically useful and profitable to the

auditing firm needs to be formed within a reasonable time and based on
evidence obtained that assures profits for the auditing firm.

The independent auditor’s direct personal knowledge, obtained through

inquiry, observation and inspection, is generally more persuasive than
information obtained indirectly.

The more effective the internal control system, the more assurance it
provides the auditor about the reliability of financial reporting by the
client.

7. A document used by organizations to establish a formal means of

recording and controlling acquisitions which usually contains a package
of documents about the acquisition is the:

voucher.
purchase requisition.

purchase order.

receiving report.

8. You are auditing Manufacturing Company and testing the audit

related objective of completeness for the equipment accounts. Which of
the following audit procedures is most likely to achieve your objective?

Trace individual acquisitions to the fixed asset master file.

Physically examine assets.

Examine vendor invoices and receiving reports.

Examine vendor invoices of closely related accounts such as repairs and

maintenance.

9. A sample in which the characteristics of the sample are the same as

those of the population is a(n):
random sample.

attributes sample.

variables sample.

representative sample.

10. Which of the following business functions is not considered to be

part of the acquisitions class of transactions?

Recognizing liabilities

Processing purchase orders

Processing cash disbursements

Recognizing liabilities

11. Which of the following is not explicitly stated in the standard

unqualified audit report?
The auditors believe that the audit evidence provides a reasonable basis
for their opinion.

The audit was conducted in accordance with generally accepted

accounting principles.

An audit includes assessing the accounting estimates used.

The financial statements are the responsibility of management.

12. When the auditor decides to select less than 100 percent of the
population for testing, the auditor is said to use:

audit sampling.

poor judgment.

estimation sampling.

representative sampling.
13. The ________ is a contract between a carrier (e.g., a trucking
company) and the seller of goods that dictates the details surrounding the
shipment of goods.

sales invoice

remittance advice

picking ticket

bill of lading

14. Which of the following is a correct statement regarding audit

evidence?

A large sample of evidence provided by an independent party is always

considered persuasive evidence.

A small sample of only one or two pieces of highly appropriate evidence

is always considered persuasive evidence.
The auditor must obtain a sufficient amount of relevant and reliable
evidence to form an opinion on the fairness of the financial statements.

Evidence is usually more reliable for balance sheet accounts when it is

obtained within six months of the balance sheet date.

15. Which of the following statements is not correct?

The decision of how many items to test must be made by the auditor for
each audit procedure.

The decision of how many items to test should not be influenced by the
increased costs of performing the additional tests.

The sample size for any given procedure is likely to vary from audit to
audit.

It is possible to vary the sample size from one unit to 100% of the items
in the population.

16. Which of the following is not one of the business functions for the
payroll and personnel cycle?
Payment of payroll

Reconciliation of payroll account

Timekeeping and payroll preparation

Human resources and employment

17. One unique characteristic of the capital acquisition and repayment

cycle is that relatively few transactions affect the account balances, but
each transaction is often highly material in amount.

True

False

18. The audit procedure that requires an auditor to “foot the acquisition
schedule” relates to which balance-related audit objective?

Classification
Detail tie-in

Existence

Cut-off

19. Which of the following does not have to be considered in

determining the initial sample size of a test of details?

Acceptable risk of incorrect rejection

Tolerable misstatement

Acceptable audit risk

Estimate of misstatements in the population

20. Because cash is the most desirable asset for people to steal, it has a
higher:

liquidity risk.
detection risk.

control risk.

inherent risk.

21. The two primary classes of transactions in the sales and collection
cycle are:

sales and cash receipts.

sales and sales returns.

sales and accounts receivable.

sales and sales discounts.

22. Master files, spreadsheets, and reports that accumulate material,

labor, and overhead as the costs are incurred are:
accounting systems

storeroom documents

cost accounting records

finished goods inventory records.

23. Which of the following expenses is not typically evaluated as part of

the audit of the acquisition and payment cycle?

Depreciation expense

Insurance expense

Bad debts expense

Property tax expense.

24. Smaller privately held companies may not maintain an accounts

payable master file by vendor. These companies pay on the basis of:
Vendor’s monthly statements

Individual vendor’s invoices

The account payable account in the general ledger

During letters

25. The word below that best explains the relationship between required
sample size and the acceptable risk of incorrect acceptance is:

Inverse.

Direct.

Proportional.

Indeterminate.

26. Which of the following balance-related audit objectives typically is

assessed as having high inherent risk for cash?

Existence
Cutoff

Detail tie-in

Presentation and disclosure

27. The final step in the evaluation of the audit results is the decision to:

project the point estimate.

determine sampling error and calculate the estimated total population

error.

determine the error in each sample.

accept the population as fairly stated or to require further action.

28. The computer file used for recording payroll transactions for each
employee and maintaining total wages paid for the year to date is the:

payroll transaction file.

payroll master file.

payroll bank account reconciliation.

payroll tax returns.

29. The computer-generated file which records acquisitions,

disbursements and allowances for each vendor is the:

Cash disbursements file.

Accounts payable master file.

Purchase approval file.

Acquisitions transaction file.

30. Which of the following groups has the responsibility for identifying
and deciding the appropriate accounting treatment for recording or
disclosing contingent liabilities?
Management and the auditors

Management

Legal counsel

Auditors

31. The standard unqualified audit report for a non-public entity must:

Have a report title that includes the word "CPA."

Be addressed to the company's stockholders and creditors.

Be dated.

Include an explanatory paragraph

32. The appropriate and sufficient evidence to be obtained from tests of

details must be decided on an:
Efficiency basis.

Effectiveness basis.

Audit objectives basis.

None of the above

33. You are auditing Rodgers and Company. You are aware of a
potential loss due to non-compliance with environmental regulations.
Management has assessed that there is a 40% chance that a $10M
payment could result from the non-compliance. The appropriate
financial statement treatment is to:

Accrue a $4 million liability.

Disclose a liability and provide a range of outcomes.

Since there is less than a 50% chance of occurrence, ignore.

Since there is greater that a remote chance of occurrence, accrue the $10
million

33. To determine if a sample is truly representative of the population, an

auditor would be required to:
conduct multiple samples of the same population.

never use sampling because of the expense involved.

audit the entire population.

use systematic sample selection

34. Auditors seldom learn about the capital acquisition and repayment
cycle when gaining an understanding of the client’s business and
industry.

True

False

35. The total of the individual employee earnings in the payroll master
file should equal the total:

of the checks drawn to employees for payroll.

balance of gross payroll in general ledger accounts.

gross pay for the current week’s payroll.

gross payroll plus the total contributed by the employer for payroll taxes.

36. When auditing the capital acquisition and repayment cycle, it is

common to verify each transaction taking place in the cycle for the
entire year as a part of verifying the balance sheet accounts.

True

False

37. In most manufacturing companies, the inventory and warehousing

cycle begins with the:

acquisition of raw materials for production of an order.

initiation of production of a customer’s order.

receipt of a customer’s order.

completion of production of a customer’s order.

38. Some companies have customers send payments directly to an

address maintained by a bank. This is called a(n) ________ system.

direct deposit

funds transfer

lockbox

interbank transfer

39. A commitment is best described as:

an agreement to commit the firm to a set of fixed conditions in the

future.

a potential future obligation to an outside party for an as yet to be

determined amount.
an agreement to commit the firm to a set of fixed conditions in the future
that depends on current market conditions.

an agreement to commit the firm to a set of fixed conditions in the future

that depends on company profitability.

40. The management’s responsibility section of the standard audit report

for a non-public company states that the financial statements are:

none of the above.

the responsibility of management.

the responsibility of the auditor.

the joint responsibility of management and the auditor.

41. Which of the following is an analytical procedure to determine if

there is idle equipment or equipment that was disposed of but not written
off?

Compare annual repairs and maintenance accounts with previous years.

Compare gross manufacturing cost divided by some measure of
production with previous years.

Compare accumulated depreciation divided by gross equipment cost

with previous years.

Compare depreciation expense divided by gross equipment cost with

previous years.

42. Accrued payroll taxes are normally considered to be associated with

the acquisition and payment cycle.

True

False

43. Which of the following is a business function related to sales returns

and allowances?

Processing customer orders

Writing off uncollectible accounts

Processing and recording credit memos

Granting credit

44. In addition to confirming bank balances of your audit client, a bank

confirmation would normally contain:

the client’s bank loans with due date, interest rate, and collateral
requested.

the client’s business prospects.

the client’s credit history as regards to paying back loans.

the client’s managements bank account information.

45. Which of the following audit procedures would be the most correct
in determining the audit objective of existence for the equipment
account in the fixed asset master file?
Examine vendor invoices and receiving reports.

Examine vendor invoices for correct accounting treatment.

Recalculate vendor invoices.

Review transactions near the balance sheet date.

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ACC 492 Week 2 Current Issue Summary Failing to Find

Fraud When Auditing Cash (2020 Syllabus)
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ACC 492 Week 2 Current Issue Summary

Write a 175- to 350-word summary.

Research a recent article on auditing cash, financial instruments, sales,

or receivables.
Apply what you learn to your future or current job.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment in a

Microsoft® Word document

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ACC 492 Week 2 Textbook Problem 23-20, 14-20, 14-26

(New Syllabus 2020)
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23-20 (Objectives 23-3, 23-4) The following are misstatements that

might be found in the client's year-end cash balance (assume that the
balance sheet date is June 30):

1.The outstanding checks on the June 30 bank reconciliation were

underfooted by $2,000.
2.A loan from the bank on June 26 was credited directly to the client's
bank account. The loan was not entered as of June 30.

3.A check was omitted from the outstanding check list on the June 30
bank reconciliation. It cleared the bank July 7.
4.A check was omitted from the outstanding check list on the bank
reconciliation. It cleared the bank September 6.

5.Cash receipts collected on accounts receivable from July 1 to July 5

were included as June 29 and 30 cash receipts.

6.A bank transfer recorded in the accounting records on July 1 was

included as a deposit in transit on June 30.

7.A check that was dated June 26 and disbursed in June was not
recorded in the cash disbursements journal, but it was included as an
outstanding check on June 30.

Required

a.Assuming that each of these misstatements was intentional (fraud),

state the most likely motivation of the person responsible.

b.What control can be instituted for each fraud to reduce the likelihood
of occurrence?

c.List an audit procedure that can be used to discover each fraud.

14-23 (Objectives 14-1, 14-3) The following questions deal with audit
evidence for the sales and collection cycle. Choose the best response.

a. An auditor is performing substantive tests of transactions for

sales. One step is to trace a sample of debit entries from the accounts
receivable master file back to the supporting duplicate sales invoices.
What will the auditor intend to establish by this step?

b. Which audit procedure is most effective in testing credit sales for

overstatement?

c. To determine whether internal control relative to the revenue

cycle of a wholesaling entity is operating effectively in minimizing the
failure to prepare sales invoices, an auditor would most likely select a
sample of transactions from the population represented by the
14-26 (Objectives 14-3, 14-4, 14-5) The following are commonly
performed tests of controls and substantive tests of transactions audit
procedures in the sales and collection cycle:

1. Account for a sequence of shipping documents and examine each one

to make sure that a duplicate sales invoice is attached.

2. Account for a sequence of sales invoices and examine each one to

make sure that a duplicate copy of the shipping document is attached.

3. Compare the quantity and description of items on shipping documents

with the related duplicate sales invoices.

4. Trace recorded sales in the sales journal to the related accounts

receivable master file and compare the customer name, date, and amount
for each one.

5. Examine sales returns for approval by an authorized official.

6. Review the prelisting of cash receipts to determine whether cash is
prelisted daily.

7. Reconcile the recorded cash receipts on the prelisting with the cash
receipts journal and the bank statement for a 1-month period.

Required

a. Identify whether each audit procedure is a test of control or a

substantive test of transactions.

b. State which of the six transaction-related audit objectives each of the

audit procedures fulfills.

c. Identify the type of evidence used for each audit procedure, such as
inspection and observation.