Auditing& Assurance Services Chapter 9

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9-22 The firm of Le and Lysius was conducting the audit of Coomes Molding Corporation for the fiscal year ended October 31. Michelle Le, the partner in charge of the audit, decides that MUS is the appropriate sampling technique to use in order to audit Coomes’s inventory account. The balance in the inventory at October 31 was $4,250,000. Michelle has established the following: risk of incorrect acceptance = 5% (i.e., the desired confidence level of 95%), tolerable misstatement = $212,500, and expected misstatement = $63,750. Required a. Calculate the sample size and sampling interval. b. Hon Zhu, staff accountant, performed the audit procedures listed in the inventory audit program for each sample item. Calculate the upper limit on misstatement based on the following misstatements. What should Hon conclude about Coomes’s inventory account? a) Book value = $4,250,000 Confidence level = 95% Tolerable misstatement = $212,500 => Tolerable deviation rate = 212,500/4,250,000 = 5% Expected misstatement = $63,750 => Expected population deviation rate = 63,750/4,250,000 = 2% Based on Table 8-5, page 286, sample size is 181. So sample interval is $23,481 (4,250,000/181) b) Tainting factor = Book Value-Audit ValueBook Value Misstatement Number | Book Value | Audit Value | Tainting Factor | 1 | $6,000 | $2,000 | 0.67 | 2 | 24,000 | 20,000 | NA | 3 | 140,000 | 65,000 | NA | + The upper misstatement limit: Customer Name | Tainting Factor | Sampling Interval | Projected Missatatement (columns 2 × 3) | 95% Misstatement Factor or Increment | Upper Misstatement Limit(Columns 2× 3× 5) | Basic Precision | 1.0 | 23,481 | N/A | 3.0 | $70,443 | 1 | 0.67 | 23,481 | 15732.27 | 1.7 | $26,745 | Add misstatements detected in logical units greater than the sampling interval | 3 | NA | 23,481 | 75000 | NA | 75000 | 2

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