CH12 TB Flashcards
Long-lived assets include only the tangible assets of an organization.
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FALSE
Long-lived assets typically represent the smallest single category of assets in many organizations.
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FALSE
Much of the inherent risk related to long-lived assets is due to the importance of management estimates.
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TRUE
The auditor’s procedures should include a determination of the reasonableness of management’s estimate of useful lives of tangible assets.
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TRUE
Gains on the sale of equipment usually indicate that the depreciation lives of the assets are too long.
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FALSE
Gains on the sale of equipment usually indicate that the depreciation lives of the assets are too short.
To identify possible impairment of manufacturing equipment, the auditor can tour the facility during operations to determine if any of the machines are idle.
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TRUE
Internal controls over long-lived assets should provide reasonable assurance that all purchases are authorized and properly valued.
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TRUE
An inherent risk related to asset impairment is that management normally does not have incentives to write down asset values.
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TRUE
The client should have methods in place to identify and account for intangible-asset impairments.
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TRUE
A common technique used to fraudulently misstate financial statements involves the undervaluing of existing long- lived assets.
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FALSE
The auditor would be most likely to request a schedule of repairs and maintenance expense to test the existence of long-lived assets.
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FALSE
The auditor would most likely review the depreciation policy and test depreciation calculations to test the valuation of long-lived assets.
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TRUE
The existence of fair value estimates that are unreasonable or unsupportable is indicative of a potential fraud scheme.
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TRUE
The auditor typically makes a physical inspection of most of the material fixed asset acquisitions.
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FALSE
An auditor is required to gain an overall understanding of internal controls related to long-lived assets for integrated audits, but not for financial statement only audits.
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FALSE
Asset impairment is not typically assessed by the auditor since it is a subjective management estimate.
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FALSE
Knowledge of industry product trends is crucial to the auditor’s identification of the potential for the impairment of assets.
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FALSE
When the value of a long-lived asset has been impaired, the organization must write down the asset reflecting the decline in economic benefit of the asset.
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TRUE
When an organization disposes of a long-lived asset, it should determine and record the gain or loss on the disposal of the asset.
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TRUE
Effective internal controls over long-lived assets include the use of identification tags secured to assets for proper tracking.
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TRUE
Estimating the amount of reclamation costs is an inherent risk associated with natural resources.
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TRUE
An inherent risk associated with intangible assets, such as a patent, is the accounting for research and development costs.
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TRUE
Brown, Inc., obtained a patent for its product five years ago and should expense the entire amount of the unamortized balance if the product is no longer sold.
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TRUE
Limited physical access to long-lived assets is a typical internal control that affects multiple assertions for long-lived assets.
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TRUE
It is not important for an organization to have controls to track the location, quantity, condition, maintenance, and depreciation status of long-lived assets because the auditor gathers evidence related to these issues.
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FALSE
Intangible assets are not subject to potential impairment of value because they lack physical substance.
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FALSE
Natural resource companies cannot reassess the amount of reserves even if more information becomes available during the course of mining, harvesting, or extracting resources.
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FALSE
When testing the existence/occurrence assertion for long-lived assets, the focus is typically on disposals of assets that took place during the year.
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FALSE
Auditors must understand the business and economics of the client’s business in order to perform meaningful planning analytical procedures for long-lived assets.
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TRUE
If planning analytical procedures identify some unexpected relationships, the auditor would conclude that there may be a heightened risk of material misstatements.
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TRUE
Audit procedures for leases consist primarily of examining lease documents to determine the substance of the lease transaction and the proper accounting treatment.
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TRUE
The FASB standard on accounting for leases issued in 2016 requires most leases to be reported on the lessee’s balance sheet, which is a significant change from the previous accounting requirements.
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TRUE
If unusual or unexpected relationships related to long-lived assets are identified during planning analytical procedures, (tests of controls and substantive procedures) would be adjusted to address the risk of the planned audit procedures material misstatement.
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TRUE
An auditor should compare the unaudited financial statements with both past results and industry trends to gain an indication about the possibility of fraud.
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TRUE
If control deficiencies related to long-lived assets are identified, the auditor will automatically assess those deficiencies as significant deficiencies.
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FALSE
The obsolescence of long-lived assets is an inherent risk that should be considered by the auditor.
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TRUE
Changes in the depreciable lives of equipment may be identified through a substantive audit procedure that includes analyzing depreciation expense as a percent of assets.
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TRUE
Audit firms that have developed standardized programs for auditing long-lived assets do not need to customize the audit programs based on assessed risk of material misstatement because inherent risks related to long-lived assets are the same for all clients.
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FALSE
If a company has only a few long-lived assets of relatively high value, the most efficient approach for an auditor would be to use tests of details for obtaining evidence.
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TRUE
The risk of material misstatement related to the existence of long-lived assets at Client A is considered low, while this risk at Client B is considered high. Sufficiency of evidence for testing the existence of equipment would be higher for client B.
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TRUE
An inherent risk related to long-lived assets is the incomplete recording of disposals.
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TRUE
For integrated audits, the auditor will test the operating effectiveness of important controls throughout the year with a greater focus on controls as of the client’s year-end.
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TRUE
The auditor selects entity-wide controls for testing, but not transaction controls specific to long-lived assets.
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FALSE
Goodwill is the excess of the purchase price over the fair market values of the acquired company’s tangible assets, identifiable intangible assets, and liabilities.
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TRUE