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Factors Affecting The For Verifying Accounts Receivable

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6) I will address all major factors affecting sample size for confirming accounts receivable.
A) The following are factors will affect the sample size for confirming accounts receivable.
B) Tolerable accounts receivable and financial statement misstatement.
C) The Inherent risk will depend on the size of the total accounts receivable and the number of accounts, which includes prior year results, and expected misstatements.
D) Control risk.
E) Achieved detection risk based on other substantive tests, and type of confirmation
F) Generally a positive confirmation requires a smaller number of sample sizes.
7) Another point I will address is the major issue of verifying the ending balance in property, plant and equipment is the possibility of legal encumbrances. I will discuss any specific concerns I may have. I I will describe the procedures that I will undertake to obtain evidence about existing legal encumbrances.
The auditors from Keller will need to perform the following steps in order to gain access to the evidence about existing legal cases include:
1. Inquiry with property, plant and equipment custodians
2. Review of minutes of meetings
3. Review of all assets noted during inventory observations (property, plant and equipment)
4. Confirmation of the client’s liabilities
5. Reading and reviewing lease agreements
6. Reading and reviewing all documents related to assets purchase (property, plant and equipment)
The procedures mentioned are to determine whether there are

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