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The bank confirmations provide the best primary evidence of the year-end bank balance.
Valuation and allocation deal with whether assets,liability,revenue,and expense components have been included in the financial statements at appropriate amounts.
Negative confirmations are used when the auditor can tolerate a high level of detection risk.
The positive confirmation is preferable when individual account balance are relatively large or when there is reason to believe that there may a subatantial number of accounts in dispute or with errors or fraud.
Noresponse to positive requests for accounts receivable confirmations generally requires the use of follow-up requests, such as additional mailings or telephone calls.It is appropriate that the auditor ask the client to contact the customers.
One of the primary objectives in testing relatedto Stockholder's Equity and Capital accounts is to verify that capital transactions are appropriately authorized and approved.