Overview: There are many audit procedures and approaches that auditors could use to perform during their detailed testing of the inventories report by management in the financial statements. Before going into detail on the procedure, it is good to start with the overview of inventories first. Inventories are the current assets that reporting in the […]
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What is inventory Inventories are items or assets that are held for selling to customers but not for internal use in business. Inventories are the entity’s assets that report in the financial statements are current assets on the balance sheet. The recognition of inventories in the financial statements of the entity is similar to the
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Definition: Physical verification is the procedure the auditor normally performs to confirm the existence of certain physical assets that are recorded in the client’s financial statements. Most of the assets that auditors verified are fixed assets and inventories. The auditor might also use this procedure to confirm the condition of those assets. The physical verification
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Overview: Auditors generally observe the inventory count performed by the client at the end of the year or accounting period. Most of the accounting book is closing at the end of the calendar year, and normally entity performs a full inventory count to assess the actual quantity and calculate the exact amount of inventory closing
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Overview: The balance sheet is one of the most important elements of financial statements. This statement shows the entity’s financial position at the point in time. What we mean by financial position is that this statement tells us how the entity’s assets, liabilities as well equity are at a specific time frame. For example, if
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Definition: Liabilities are the present obligation of the entity in the form of legally enforceable and result from past events. Liabilities will have future economic outflow from an entity. Those liabilities including account payable, salary payable, noted payable, accrual liabilities, short term loan, and long term loan. If the entity financial statements are prepared according
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Definition: Assets are resources that control by the entity and those resources are expected to have an economic inflow into the entity in the future. Those assets included cash, account receivables, care, computer equipment, land, building, and other resources the entity controls. The balance sheet is one of five financial statements that report the entity’s
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Definition: Transportation costs recorded in the income statement are the costs related to the entity’s transportation of goods to customers or suppliers. These costs include the cost of transporting goods from warehouses to customers by a delivery man, trucks, ships, and freighting costs. There are two main differences in transportation costs, where one of those
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Overview: Other income records in the income statement normally refer to the types of incomes that are not related to or generated from the main operation of an entity. Those incomes included a gain on disposal of assets, gain on revaluation of assets, interest incomes from sales on credit which is overdue, interest from the
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Definition: Interest expenses that are recorded in the income statement referred to costs charged to the entity by the bank, creditor and other lenders as the result of fund borrowing for periods of time. Those borrowing included bonds, loan, convertible debt, and credit charged. Interest expenses are partially tax-deductible and the amount charged is based
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