Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Collection Cycle:
Tests of Controls and
Substantive Tests of
Transactions
Chapter 14
2006 Prentice Hall Business Publishing, Auditing 11/e, Arens/Beasley/Elder
14 - 1
Learning Objective 1
14 - 2
Cash in Bank
Accounts Receivable
Beginning Cash receipts
balance
Cash Discounts
Taken
Sales on
account
Sales returns
and allowances
Sales Returns
and Allowances
Ending
balance
Charge-off of
uncollectible
accounts
Bad Debt
Expense
14 - 3
Sales returns
and allowances
Ending
balance
Charge-off of
uncollectible
accounts
Allowance for
Uncollectible Accounts
Charge-off of Beginning
uncollectible balance
accounts
Estimate of
bad debt
expense
Bad Debt
Expense
Ending
balance
14 - 4
Learning Objective 2
Describe the business functions
and the related documents and
records in the sales and
collection cycle.
14 - 5
Sales Transaction
Accounts
Business functions
Sales
Accounts
receivable
Processing customer
orders
Granting credit
Customer order
Sales order
Customer order or sales
order
Shipping document
Sales invoice
Sales transaction file
Sales journal or listing
Accounts receivable
master file
Accounts receivable
trial balance
Monthly statements
Shipping goods
Billing customers
and recording sales
14 - 6
Business functions
Cash in bank
(debits from
cash receipts)
Accounts
receivable
Processing and
recording cash
receipts
Remittance advice
Prelisting of cash
receipts
Cash receipts
transaction file
Cash receipts journal or
listing
14 - 7
Business functions
Sales returns
and
allowances
Accounts
receivable
Processing and
recording sales
returns and
allowances
Credit memo
Sales and returns and
allowances journal
14 - 8
Charge-off of Uncollectible
Accounts Transaction
Accounts
Business functions
Accounts
receivable
Allowance for
uncollectible
accounts
Charging off
uncollectible
accounts
receivable
Uncollectible account
authorization form
General journal
14 - 9
Business functions
Bad debt
expense
Allowance for
uncollectible
accounts
General journal
14 - 10
14 - 11
Granting Credit
Before goods are shipped, a properly
authorized person must approve credit
to the customer for sales on account.
14 - 12
Shipping Goods
This is the first point in the cycle
where company assets are given up.
14 - 13
14 - 14
14 - 15
14 - 16
14 - 17
14 - 18
Learning Objective 3
14 - 19
14 - 20
14 - 21
14 - 22
Learning Objective 4
Understand internal control,
and design and perform tests
of controls and substantive
tests of transactions for sales.
14 - 23
14 - 24
14 - 25
14 - 26
Proper authorization
Monthly statements
Prenumbered
documents
Internal verification
procedures
14 - 27
Audits of nonpublic
companies
14 - 28
Transaction-Related Audit
Objectives for Sales
Existence:
Recorded sales are for shipments actually made.
Completeness:
Existing sales transactions are recorded.
Accuracy:
Recorded sales are for the amount shipped.
2006 Prentice Hall Business Publishing, Auditing 11/e, Arens/Beasley/Elder
14 - 29
Transaction-Related Audit
Objectives for Sales
Classification:
Sales transactions are properly classified.
Timing:
Sales are recorded on the correct dates.
Posting and summarization:
Sales transactions are properly included
in the accounts receivable master file.
2006 Prentice Hall Business Publishing, Auditing 11/e, Arens/Beasley/Elder
14 - 30
Customer
order
Shipping
document
Completeness
start
Duplicate
sales
invoice
Sales
journal
General
journal
Accounts
receivable
master file
Existence
start
14 - 31
14 - 32
Learning Objective 5
Apply the methodology for
controls over sales transactions
to controls over sales returns
and allowances.
14 - 33
14 - 34
Materiality
Emphasis on
objectives
14 - 35
Learning Objective 6
Understand internal control, and
design and perform tests of
controls and substantive tests
of transactions for cash receipts.
14 - 36
14 - 37
Learning Objective 7
Apply the methodology for
controls over the sales and
collection cycle to write-offs
of uncollectible accounts
receivable.
2006 Prentice Hall Business Publishing, Auditing 11/e, Arens/Beasley/Elder
14 - 38
14 - 39
14 - 40
14 - 41
Cash
Allowance for
doubtful accounts
14 - 42
Accounts
Cash in
Receivable
Bank
Sales
Cash receipts
transactions
transactions
Audited by
TOC, STOT, and AP
Ending
balance
Audited by
TOC, STOT, and AP
Ending
balance
14 - 43
End of Chapter 14
14 - 44