CPA AA Actual Tests : Audit & Insurance

Pahari Robert has been appointed the auditor of Safe Haven which has a year end of 31 May. Safe Haven is a small registered charity based in a small town in Warshire. The organisation provides shelter for abandoned dogs and puppies with the aim of finding new homes for as many as possible.
Safe Haven also employs a number of paid employees. The shelter is managed by John and Jane Sheldon, who are husband and wife. Safe Haven has a high turnover of staff in the accounts department.
Which type of risk has been illustrated in Safe Haven?

• A. Detection risk
• B. Control risk
• C. Audit risk
• D. Inherent risk

An employee of an insurance company processed a fraudulent policy loan application for an amount less than the established level requiring supervisory review. The employee then obtained the cheque and cashed it by forging the endorsement. To prevent the loan's appearance on a subsequent policyholder statement, the loan amount was transferred to a "suspense" account. Which of the following should expose this situation at the earliest date?

• A. A computer report identifying unusual entries to the suspense account.
• B. Regular reconciliation of the "suspense" account performed by an independent employee.
• C. An annual internal audit.
• D. The use of pre-numbered checks which are periodically accounted for.

During the audit planning for your client Shang Ltd for the year ending 30 April 2013, you read the following comment on the 'points forward for next year' schedule included in last year's audit working papers file:
'During the course of our audit we discovered that the company had incorrectly reclaimed input value added tax totalling $42,000. We have notified the client in writing of the need to repay this amount to tax authority as soon as possible. The financial statements have been adjusted to include this sum within current liabilities as 'amounts payable to Tax Authority'.
Included within income in the company's management accounts for the ten months ended 28 February 2013 is a credit entry for $42,000 described as 'VAT difference written off'.
Which one of the following actions is LEAST likely to be taken in respect of this matter?

• A. Report to nominated officer/money laundering officer within the firm
• B. Report to board of directors
• C. Consider resignation
• D. Avoid tipping off the client

Audit sampling is the application of audit procedures to less than 100% of items within a population of audit relevance such that all sampling units have a chance of selection in order to provide the auditor with a reasonable basis on which to draw conclusions about the entire population.
You are carrying out a review of payments to suppliers with the aim to identifying at least one instance of fraud. Which of the following would be the most appropriate sampling technique to use?

• A. Monetary unit sampling
• B. Attributes sampling
• C. Discovery sampling
• D. Haphazard sampling

Assurance providers obtain evidence using procedures set out in ISA 500.
Identify which type of audit procedures is / are correctly paired with each tests carried out by an auditor.
TestsAudit procedures (i)The assurance provider writes to a sample of customers asking them to inform him of the balance they owe theInspection company at the year end (ii)The assurance provider looks at a share certificate to confirm that the company has an investment in Company AObservation (iii)The assurance provider attends the inventory count and ensures that it is being carried out in accordance withConfirmation the issued instructions

• A. (ii) and (iii) only
• B. All are correct
• C. (i) and (ii) only
• D. All are incorrect