Individual Assignment Chapter 17 – Audit Sampling for Tests of Details of Balances
Multiple Choice Questions from CPA and CIA Examinations:
17-19 a. (4) Allow the auditor to emphasise larger items from the population
b. (2) Expected Amount of Misstatements (Yes), Measure of Tolerable Misstatement
(Yes)
c. (3) Decrease sample size (Increase in tolerable mistatement), Increase sample size
(Increase in assessed level of Control Risk)
17-20 a. (3) Incorrect rejection
b. (2) $2,000
c. (4) accept the $175,000 balance because the confidence interval is within the
materiality limits
17-21 a. (4) Has a probability proportional to its dollar value of being selected
b. (3) Inclusion of zero and negative balances generally does not require special
design considerations
c. (4) Predict a monetary population value within a range of precision