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Name an "ethics officer" who is responsible for receiving and acting on fraud tips.
Place dedicated hotline telephones on walls around the workplace with direct
communication to the company ethics officer.
Practice management "of the people and for the people" to help them share
personal and professional problems.
Install airtight control systems of checks and supervision.
Fraud risk factors are events or conditions that indicate which of the following:
An incentive or pressure to perpetrate fraud.
All of these are correct.
An attitude or rationalization that justifies a fraudulent action.
An opportunity to carry out a fraud.
Which of the following would the auditor consider to be an incompatible operation if the
cashier receives remittances?
The cashier posts the receipts to the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger
cards.
The cashier prepares the daily deposit.
The cashier makes the daily deposit at a local bank.
The cashier endorses the checks.
When auditing with "fraud awareness," auditors should especially notice and follow up
employee activities under which of these conditions?
The company always estimates the inventory but never takes a complete
physical count.
The petty cash box is always locked in the desk of the custodian.
Management has published a company code of ethics and sends frequent
communication newsletters about it.
The board of directors reviews and approves all investment transactions
Which of the following control activities could prevent a paid disbursement voucher from
being presented for payment a second time?
Each morning the controller gets the prior day's list of remittances, a copy of the payment
report, and a copy of the deposit slip returned from the bank. When comparing these items,
the controller would be able to determine that
Numerous cash refunds have been made to different people at the same post office box
address.
Bank reconciliation has no outstanding checks or deposits older than 15 days.
Internal auditors cannot locate several credit memos to support reductions of
customers balances.
Three people were absent the day the auditors handed out the paychecks and have not
picked them up four weeks later
Upon receipt of customers checks in the mail room, a responsible employee should prepare
a remittance list that is forwarded to the cashier. A copy of the list should be sent to the
Which of the following is an effective audit procedure that an auditor might use to detect
kiting between intercompany banks?
Wage expense.
Consulting service expense.
Property tax expense.
Inventory.
Fraud risk factors are events or conditions that indicate
I. An incentive or pressure to perpetrate fraud.
II. An opportunity to carry out the fraud.
III. An attitude or rationalization that justifies the fraudulent action.
Which of the following statements is true?
None of these is a fraud risk factor.
I and II are fraud risk factors.
II and III are fraud risk factors.
I is a fraud risk factor.
I, II, and III are fraud risk factors
Which of the following combinations is a good way to conceal employee fraud but an
ineffective means of perpetrating management (financial reporting) fraud?
Omitting the disclosure information about related-party sales to the presidents relatives
at below-market prices.
Overstating sales revenue and overstating bad debt expense.
Understating interest expense and understating accrued interest payable.
Overstating sales revenue and overstating customer accounts receivable balances
Cash receipts from sales on account have been misappropriated. Which of the following acts
would conceal this defalcation and be least likely to be detected by an auditor?
In what way can audit procedures be modified to address assessed fraud risks?
All of these are valid modifications.
Perform procedures close to year-end.
Apply computer-assisted techniques to all items.
Obtain more reliable information.
During an audit of cash, the auditor is most concerned with the management assertion of
Valuation or allocation.
Rights and obligations.
Existence.
Occurrence.
In preparing for the audit of cash, the auditors perform analytical procedures concerning
cash balances. Which of the following would be the best source of information for use in the
estimate of cash?
Which of the following is not considered one of the three factors increasing the probability of
fraud?
Motive.
Lack of training.
Opportunity.
Rationalization.
To provide assurance that each voucher is submitted and paid only once, an auditor most
likely would examine a sample of paid vouchers and determine whether each voucher is
Supported by a vendor's invoice.
Auditors ordinarily send a standard confirmation request to all banks with which the client
has done business during the year under audit, regardless of the year-end balances. A
purpose of this procedure is to
Provide the data necessary to prepare a proof of cash.
Request that a cutoff bank statement and related checks be sent to the audit.
Detect questionable bank activities that may otherwise not be discovered.
Seek information about contingent liabilities and security agreements.
In the audit of cash, the auditor obtains a bank cutoff statement primarily to
Identify old outstanding checks that the client may exclude from the year-end bank
reconciliation in order to misappropriate cash.
Obtain sufficient information to reconcile the client's bank account as of year-end.
Obtain direct confirmation of the client's bank balances as of year-end.
Test the propriety of items appearing on the client's year-end bank reconciliation.
Which of the following sets of information does an auditor usually confirm on one form?
Accounts payable and purchase commitments.
Cash in bank and collateral for loans.
Inventory on consignment and contingent liabilities.
Accounts receivable and accrued interest receivable.
Which of the following management policies would increase the probability of fraud in a
company?
Diversifying authority throughout divisions and subsidiaries in the organization.
Which of the following would be consistent with an employee taking cash receipts from
customers on account?
The total of the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger balances is less than the
accounts receivable control account.
The total of the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger balances is more than the accounts
receivable control account.
Total cash receipts from customers for the month are less than credit sales for the month.
Total cash receipts from customers for the month are more than credit sales for the month.