ACCT 401 Saudi Electronic University Auditing Principles Procedures Questions

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Answer teh belwo 3 Questions:

1- Explain the importance of observing physical inventory during an audit. (1 point)

2- Explain the Concept of Audit Sampling? (2 points)

3- Property, plant, and equipment is often a significant portion of a company's assets. Describe the inherent risk factors that can affect the audit of this account. (2 points)


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College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Assignment (2) Deadline: End of Week (9) 20 March 2021 @ 23:59 Course Name: Auditing Principles and Procedures Student’s Name: Course Code: ACCT401 Student’s ID Number: Semester: 2nd CRN: Academic Year: 1441/1442 H For Instructor’s Use only Instructor’s Name: Students’ Grade: #/5 Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY • The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder. • Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted. • Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page. • Students must mention question number clearly in their answer. • Late submission will NOT be accepted. • Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions. • All answers must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism. • Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted. Assignment Question(s): (Marks 5) 1. Explain the importance of observing physical inventory during an audit. (1 point) 2. Explain the Concept of Audit Sampling? (2 points) 3. Property, plant, and equipment is often a significant portion of a company's assets. Describe the inherent risk factors that can affect the audit of this account. (2 points)
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The auditors observe physical inventory during an audit to obtain information relevant to rights
to and valuation of inventory. The evidence supporting the existence of physical inventory is also
obtained. Physical inventory allows businesses to keep their stock ledgers accurate and up to date.
As a result, accurate information will prevent businesses from the risk of losing sales due to the
unavailability of stock when customers highly demand it. Physical inventory also guides a business
to effectively and accurately stock goods or products as it reveals those under or overstocked. Thus,
the business can maximize its profits. Similarly, businesses have been able to reduce unnecessary
investment in stock by observing physical inventory. The risk of goods or products being lost or
stolen is significantly minimized through observing physical inventory.
Audit sampling refers to the use of an audit process on a selection of the items with a class of
transactions or account balance. Examination of an entire population is highly ineffective in cases
where population sizes are large. In such a case, audit sampling will be an efficient audit procedure.
Similarly, audit sampling allows selecting less than a hundred percent of total items within a
population of items for auditing. It is a vital investigative tool that allows auditors to draw their
conclusion and express their opinion based on supporting evidence from the sampling results
without auditing each transaction and item. Equally, audit sampling plays a significant role in th...


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