1. Which of the following is not one of the four decisions about what evidence to gather and how much of it to accumulate?
A) Which audit procedures to use
B) Which accounts must agree to the general ledger
C) When to
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1. Which of the following is not one of the four decisions about what evidence to gather and how much of it to accumulate?
A) Which audit procedures to use
B) Which accounts must agree to the general ledger
C) When to perform the procedures
D) What sample size to select for a given procedure: B
2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the reliability of evidence?
A) Effectiveness of client internal controls
B) Education of auditor
C) Independence of information provider
D) Timeliness: B
3. The auditor must gather sufficient and appropriate evidence during the course of the audit. Sufficient evidence must:
A) be well documented and cross-referenced in the audit documents.
B) be based on sources that are external to company.
C) provide evidence that prove or disprove an audit objective/assertion.
D) be persuasive enough to enable the auditor to issue an audit report.: D
4. Which of the following forms of evidence would be least persuasive in forming the auditor's opinion about marketable securities and other invest- ments held by the company?
A) Responses to auditor's questions by the president and controller regard- ing the investments account
B) Correspondence with a stockbroker regarding the quantity of client's investments held in street name by the broker
C) Minutes of the board of directors authorizing the purchase of stock as an investment
D) The auditor's count of marketable securities: A
5. Determine which of the following is most correct regarding the reliability of audit evidence.
A) Information that is indirectly obtained from external sources is the most reliable audit evidence.
B) Reliability of audit evidence is dependent upon the evidence being sub- jective.
C) Reliability of evidence refers to the amount of evidence obtained.
D) If internal controls are effective, evidence obtained is more reliable than when the controls are not effective.: D
6. To be considered reliable evidence, confirmations must be controlled by:
A) the client's employee responsible for accounts receivable.
B) the external auditor.
C) the client's internal audit department.
D) the client's controller or CFO.: B
7. A measure of how willing the auditor is to accept that the financial state- ments may be materially misstated after the audit is completed and an unqualified opinion has been issued is the:
A) inherent risk.
B) acceptable audit risk.
C) statistical risk.
D) financial risk.: B
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