ACCT 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Accounts Receivable, Operating Expense, Income Statement
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Open the following selected accounts recording the opening balances as of January 1 of the current year.
| 114.1 | Allowance for doubtful accounts | 12,200 Credit |
| 313 | Income summary | |
| 718 | Bad debts expense |
3.Record the following transactions in general journal form in the Group Project Excel Spreadsheet Problem 2 Parts 2 - 6 tab.
4.Post these transactions to the three selected accounts above and to Accounts receivable.
5.Enter the ending balances in the three accounts above and enter the ending balance in the Accounts Receivable account.
| Apr 1, 09 | Accepted a $20,000, one - year, 8% note dated April 1 from Bruce Hanson for the sale of inventory; Cost of Goods Sold was $16,500. |
| June 27 | Wrote off the $2,375 balance owed by Miller Corp., which has no assets. |
| Oct. 5 | Received 25% of the $12,000 balance owed by F.M. Knox Co., a bankrupt, and wrote off the remainder as uncollectible. |
| Dec. 31 | Based on an analysis of the $257,724 of accounts receivable, it was estimated that $14,500 will be uncollectible. Record the adjusting entry using the Aging method. |
| Dec. 31 | Record the adjusting entry for interest accrued on the Bruce Hanson note |
| Dec. 31 | Record the entries to close the appropriate accounts into Retained Earnings. |
| April 1, 10 | Collected the maturity value on the Hanson note. |
6.Determine the net accounts receivable (the amount Summer expects to collect as of December 31.
7.Compute the accounts receivable turnover and the dayâs sales in receivables for the year. Assume that there were $1,800,000 sales account.
8.How is Summer Company doing with collection of their accounts receivable compared to the industry? Assume the industry average for the accounts receivable turnover is 11 and the industry average for the dayâs sales in receivables is 37 days?
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Homework #3
Due Tuesday, February 28
Worth 100 Points
Note: Students are expected to work independently (i.e., on your own) on all homework assignments. Please type and post to Canvas.
Part I. Risk Assessments
| 1. For each illustration, select the component of audit risk that is most directly illustrated. The components of audit risk may be used once, more than once, or not at all. (10 points, 1 point each). |
| Components: Inherent Risk (IR), Control risk (CR), or Detection Risk (DR) |
a. A client fails to discover employee fraud on a timely basis because bank accounts are not reconciled monthly.
b. Cash is more susceptible to theft than an inventory of coal.
c. Confirmation of receivables by an auditor fails to detect a material misstatement.
d. Disbursements have occurred without proper approval.
e. There is inadequate segregation of duties.
f. A necessary substantive audit procedure is omitted.
g. Notes receivable are susceptible to material misstatement, assuming there are no related internal controls.
h. Technological developments make a major product obsolete.
i. The client is very close to violating debt covenants.
j. XYZ Company, a client, lacks sufficient working capital to continue operations.
2. Read Case 1.6, Nextcard, Inc. from our Casebook. Pretend you are the auditor for Nexcard, Inc. in the planning phase of the audit for FY 2000 and perform the following risk assessment procedures. That is, just focus on the information in the case prior to the discovery of the fraud (pages 83-86). (50 points total)
a. Perform a risk assessment as part of your audit plan for fiscal year 2000. Set or assess each component/factor of the audit risk model. Describe in detail how you set or assessed each factor (i.e., include specific risk factors from the case and explain how they influenced your assessment). (25 points)
b. Perform a fraud risk assessment for the risk of material misstatement due to fraudulent financial reporting. That is, identify and briefly describe specific fraud risk factors (i.e., more than 1) for each of the three components of the fraud risk triangle, specific to fraudulent financial reporting. (15 points)
c. Identify and describe one significant pervasive risk present during the Nextcard audit. In doing so, explain how the pervasive risk affects the risk of material misstatement. Then, describe how the auditor could respond to that pervasive risk (how could they change the audit plan to address that risk). (5 points)
d. Identify and describe one significant specific risk present during the Nextcard audit. In doing so, explain how the specific risk affects the risk of material misstatement. Then, describe how the auditor could respond to that specific risk (how could they change the audit plan to address that risk). (5 points)
Part II. Evidence and Management Assertions
1. For each of the following specific audit procedures, indicate the type of audit procedure it represents: (1) inspection of records or documents, (2) inspection of tangible assets, (3) observation, (4) inquiry, (5) confirmation, (6) recalculation, (7) reperformance, (8) analytical procedures, and (9) scanning. (10 points, 1 point each)
a. sending a written request to the entityâs customers requesting that they report the amount owed to the entity
b. examining large sales invoices for a period of two days before and after year-end to determine if sales are recorded in the proper period.
c. agreeing the total of the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger to the accounts receivable general ledger account.
d. discussing the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts with the credit manager.
e. comparing the current-year gross profit percentage with the gross profit percentage for the last four years.
f. examining a new plastic extrusion machine to ensure that this major acquisition was received.
g. watching the entityâs warehouse personnel count the raw materials inventory.
h. performing test counts of the warehouse personnelâs count of the raw material.
i. obtaining a letter from the entityâs attorney indicating that there were no lawsuits in progress against the entity.
j. tracing the prices used by the entityâs billing program for pricing sales invoices to the entityâs approved price list.
2. For each of the audit procedures listed above in Part II. 1. (a-j), identify the category (assertions about classes of transactions and events, or assertions about account balances) and identify the primary management assertion being tested. (30 points, 3 points each)
