Incremental allowance for sampling risk


Problem 1:

As auditor for the Harder Company, you decide to use PPS sampling in determining the fairness of accounts receivable.  In executing the plan, you discover the following misstatements:

        Book          Audit
       Value          Value
     $1,500         $1,000
       2,400           1,200
       8,200           7,500
       6,000           5,400
       9,000           8,000

The book value of the accounts receivable is $720,000, the RF factor at a 5% risk of incorrect acceptance is 3.0, and sample size is 90. 

The incremental change in reliability factors for the first four misstatements are 1.75, 1.55, 1.46, and 1.40.

REQUIRED:

  1. Calculate basic precision and the total projected misstatement.
   
  2. Determine the incremental allowance for sampling risk and the upper misstatement limit.
   
  3. State the quantitative conclusion that can be drawn from the sample assuming tolerable misstatement is $30,000.
   
Problem 2: Assume the following data for Morris Company whose auditor employs nonstatistical sampling to substantive testing:

 

DOLLAR VALUE OF RECEIVABLES
BOOK VALUE OF POPULATION

 

 

 

STRATUM

 

 

N

n

 

1

Greater than $60,000

        $    700,000

10

10

 

2

$6,000 - $60,000

           1,200,000

60

8

 

3

Less than $6,000

           1,100,000

330

12

 

Total

 

        $ 3,000,000

400

30

 

 

 

BOOK VALUE of Sample
AUDITED VALUE of Sample

 

STRATUM

 

1

     $    700,000

         $    697,000

 

2

           360,000

               357,000

 

3

             72,000

                 69,000

 

Total

     $ 1,132,000

         $ 1,123,000

 

REQUIRED:

  1. Calculate the estimated audit value for each of the strata using the ratio method.
   
  2. Calculate the estimated audit value for each of the strata using the difference method.

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