Dawson Co’s computerised wages program is backed up daily, however for a period of 3 months the wages records and the back-ups have been corrupted, and therefore cannot be accessed. Wages and salaries for these 3 months are $32m. Profit before tax is $200m.
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Dawson Co’s computerised wages program is backed up daily, however for a period of 3 months the wages records and the back-ups have been corrupted, and therefore cannot be accessed. Wages and salaries for these 3 months are $32m. Profit before tax is $200m.
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(ii)state what type of auditor’s report should be issued and explain your choice.
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- Dawson Co’s computerised wages program is backed up daily, however for a period of 3 months the wages records and the back-ups have been corrupted, and therefore cannot be accessed. Wages and salaries for these 3 months are $32m. Profit before tax is $200m. Briefly give your views on this situations and state what type of auditor’s report should be issued and explain your choice. You should not reproduce the entire audit report. Only mention appropriate extracts which are relevant.An IT auditor is conducting data analysis procedures on an employee expense report file and notices several expenses for $24.99 from the same individual. The company’s policy requires that any expenses that are under $25.00 do not require a receipt. The IT auditor should: [SELECT ALL THAT APPLY a) Maintain professional skepticism and investigate these transactions further b) Pass on investigating these items further, focusing on higher dollar amounts c) Evaluate the business process approval controls, and related procedures d) Discuss fraud awareness and detection programs with management to gain an understanding of management’s commitment to fraud prevention and related entity-level anti-fraud controls.Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the following statements and explain your reasoning. Teresa Dziuba was assigned to the Heathcliff Energy audit. She was ensuring that when recognizing revenues, all transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded. She was testing the existence assertion. Assume materiality for the financial statements as a whole is $200,000 and performance materiality for accounts receivable is set at $80,000. If the auditor finds one receivable that is overstated by $110,000, the auditor can ignore the error as it is less than $200,000 (overall materiality). Steve Slopak, the group partner was reviewing the work of Manny Fernandez on the Lake Shore Gold account. Manny asked Steve for an explanation on how audit risk_ould affect his work. Steve answered: “Audit risk affects the quantity and quality of evidence gathering."
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