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    PracticeCPA®CPA AUD Practice Exam 2Question 22
    Hard1 markMultiple Choice
    Area III: Performing ProceduresAUDProceduresCompleteness

    CPA · Question 22 · Area III: Performing Procedures

    An auditor is testing the completeness assertion for accounts payable of a nonissuer. Which of the following procedures would provide the MOST reliable evidence?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Vouching a sample of recorded accounts payable to vendor invoices.

    B.

    Selecting a sample of cash disbursements made after year-end and examining the supporting documentation to determine if the liability existed at year-end.

    C.

    Confirming accounts payable with a sample of vendors selected from the year-end accounts payable listing.

    D.

    Recalculating the mathematical accuracy of the accounts payable subsidiary ledger.

    How to approach this question

    Completeness = 'What is missing?'. You can't look at the list to find what's not on the list. You must look at OUTFLOWS (payments) after year-end.

    Full Answer

    B.Selecting a sample of cash disbursements made after year-end and examining the supporting documentation to determine if the liability existed at year-end.✓ Correct
    B
    The 'search for unrecorded liabilities' involves examining cash disbursements after year-end. If a payment is made in Jan for services in Dec, a liability should have been recorded in Dec. This directly tests Completeness.

    Common mistakes

    Selecting Option C (Confirmations). While confirmations can test completeness, selecting from the AP list makes it an Existence test. You'd need to select from a vendor master file to test Completeness.
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