An auditor is conducting an audit of
the financial statements of a wholesale cosmetics distributor with an inventory consisting
of thousands of individual items. The distributor keeps its inventory in its own distribution
center and two public warehouses. An inventory computer file is maintained on a computer
disk and at the end of each day the file is updated. Each record of the inventory file
contains the following data:
1. Item number
2. Location of item
3. Description of item
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4. Quantity on hand
5. Cost per item
6. Date of last purchase
7. Date of last sale
8. Quantity sold during year
The auditor is planning to observe the distributor’s physical count of inventories as of a
given date. The auditor will have available a computer tape of the data on the inventory
file on the date of the physical count and a general-purpose computer software package.
Required
The auditor is planning to perform inventory substantive tests. Identify the inventory tests
and describe how use of the general-purpose software package and the tape of the inventory
file data might be helpful to the auditor in performing such tests. (Hint: You may wish
to refer to Chapter 12 as well as this chapter in answering this question.) Organize your
answer as follows:
make 2 colums: in the first title it"INventory Stbtantive Test: in the column "observe the physical count, makeinng and recording test counts when possible
in hte scond colum, titile it: "Software Might Be Helpful For Substantive Tests" and in it" determine which iteams are to be test counted by selecting a random sample of a representative number of items from =the inventory file as of the date of the physical count"

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