Modern Auditing:

Assurance Services and the Integrity

of Financial Reporting, 8th Edition

William C. Boynton
California Polytechnic State
University at San Luis Obispo
Raymond N. Johnson
Portland State University

Chapter 14 – Auditing the Revenue Cycle

Chapter Overview
The Revenue Cycle
Develop Audit Objectives
Inherent Risk, Including the Risk
of Fraud
• Management Misstatement of Revenue
– Overstate revenues
– Overstate cash and gross receivables
– Understate allowance for doubtful accounts

• Other Misstatement Factors

– Opportunities for error
– Timing
– Misclassification
– Adjustment transactions
Analytical Procedures
Consideration of Internal Control
Components
• Control Environment

• Risk Assessment

• Information and Communication

• Monitoring

• Initial Assessments of Control Risk

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1. The revenue cycle includes all of
the following transactions, except:
A. Credit Sales
B. Cash Receipt
C. Inventory Purchase
D. Sales Returns and Allowances

C. Inventory Purchase
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2. This internal control component should
provide management with feedback as
to whether internal controls pertaining
to revenue cycle transactions and
balances are operating as intended.
A. Monitoring
B. Initial Assessments of Control Risk
C. Information and Communication
D. Control Environment

A. Monitoring
 Control Activities for Credit
Sales Transactions
• Credit Sales Orders
– Over-the-Counter
– Mail Order
– Internet

• Computerized Accounting System

– General Controls
– Application Controls
 Common Documents and
Records
• Customer Order

• Sales Order

• Shipping Document
– Bill of Lading
– Packing Slip

• Sales Invoice

• Authorized Price List

 Common Documents and
Records
• Sales Transactions File

• Sales Journal

• Customer Master File

• Accounts Receivable Master File

– Accounts receivable subsidiary ledger

• Customer Monthly Statement

 Function and Control Activities

• Authorizing Sales
– Accepting Customer Orders
– Approving Credit

• Delivery of Goods and Services

– Filling Sales Orders
– Shipping Sales Orders

• Recording Sales
System Flowchart – Credit Sales
System Flowchart – Credit Sales
System Flowchart – Credit Sales
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3. This document is a journal listing
of the completed sales
transactions.
A. Sales invoice
B. Sales transactions files
C. Authorized price list
D. Sales journal

D. Sales journal
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4. This document shows the
description, quantity, and other
data pertaining to a customer
order.
A. Customer order
B. Sales order
C. Shipping document
D. Sales invoice

B. Sales order
 Cash Receipts Transactions –
Common Documents and Records
• Remittance Advice

• Prelist

• Cash Count Sheets

• Daily Cash Summary

• Validated Deposit Slip

• Cash Receipts Transactions File

• Cash Receipts Journal

 Cash Receipts Transactions -
Functions
• Receiving Cash Receipts
– Over-the-Counter Receipts
– Mail Receipts

• Depositing Cash in Bank

– Deposited intact daily

• Recording the Receipts

 Sales Adjustment Transactions –
Common Documents and Records
• Sales return authorization

• Authorization for accounts receivable write-off

• Receiving report

• Credit memo

• Journal entry

• Cash Receipts journal

Sales Adjustment Functions and
Controls
• Granting Cash Discounts

• Granting Sales Returns and Allowances

• Determining Uncollectible Accounts

• Other Controls

• Tests of Controls
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5. This cash receipts transaction
document is a listing of cash
receipts received through the
mail.
A. Remittance advice
B. Prelist
C. Daily cash summary
D. Validated deposit slip

B. Prelist
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6. All of the following are sales
adjustment functions, except:
A. Granting cash discounts
B. Determining uncollectible accounts
C. Recording the cash receipts
D. Granting sales returns and allowances

C. Recording the cash receipts

 Substantive Tests of Accounts
Receivable
• Determining Detection Risk for Tests of
Details
– Existence and Occurrence

– Completeness

– Rights and Obligations

– Valuation and Allocation

– Presentation and Disclosure

 Designing Substantive Tests
• Initial Procedures

• Analytical Procedures
 Designing Substantive Tests
• Tests of Details of Transactions
– Vouch Revenue Transactions

– Trace Revenue Transactions

– Perform Cutoff Tests

• Sales Cutoff Tests
• Sales Return Cutoff Tests

– Perform Cash Receipts Cutoff Test

 Designing Substantive Tests
• Tests of Details of Balances
– Confirm Receivables

– Forms of Confirmation
• Positive Confirmation
• Negative Confirmation

– Timing and Extent of Requests

– Controlling the Requests

 Designing Substantive Tests
• Tests of Details of Balances
– Disposition of Exceptions

– Alternative Procedures for Dealing

with Nonresponses

– Summarizing and Evaluating Results

– Applicability to Assertions
 Designing Substantive Tests
• Tests of Details of Accounting
Estimates
– Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
– Aged Trial Balance

• Tests of Details of Disclosures

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7. This type of confirmation requires
a debtor to respond only when the
amount shown is incorrect.
A. Positive Confirmation
B. Negative Confirmation
C. Avoidance
D. Existence

B. Negative Confirmation
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8. This cutoff test is designed to obtain
reasonable assurance that cash receipts
are recorded in the accounting period
in which received.
A. Sales cutoff test
B. Sales return cutoff test
C. Vouching revenue transactions
D. Cash receipts cutoff test

D. Cash receipts cutoff test