1.
Which of the following situations would best support the decision of a chief audit executive (CAE) to defer follow-up activity at a branch office until the next audit engagement?
2.
When conducting research, which of the following is most important?
3.
Productivity statistics are provided quarterly to a company's board of directors. An auditor checked the ratios and other statistics in the four most recent reports. The auditor used scratch paper and copies of the board reports to verify the accuracy of computations and compared the data used in the computations with supporting documents. The auditor wrote a note describing this work for the workpapers and then discarded the scratch paper and report copies. The auditor's note stated.
"The ratios and other statistics in the quarterly board reports were checked for the last four quarters, and appropriate supporting documents were examined. All amounts appear to be appropriate."
In this situation:
4.
What does the following scatter gram suggest?
5.
New credit policies have been implemented in an automated order-entry system to improve the collection of receivables. Sales management has compiled several examples that show decreased sales and delayed order entry, and contends that these examples are a direct result of the new credit-policy constraints. Sales management's data and information provide.
6.
If an organization's chief audit executive wants to implement continuous auditing, what is the appropriate order in which key steps should be undertaken?
7.
Which of the following is an example of the verification of internal documentary evidence?
8.
In order to effectively elicit sensitive information from an employee during an audit engagement, an auditor should:
9.
During a routine audit of a customer service hotline, an internal auditor noticed that an unusually high number of customer complaints pertained to payments not being applied to the customers' accounts.
Which of the following would most likely be the reason for the high volume of complaints?
10.
An audit of management's quality program includes testing the accuracy of the cost-of-quality reports provided to management. Which of the following internal control objectives is the focus of this testing?