Substantive Procedures Flashcards
Illustrative Assertions
PP&E-Reconcile subsidiary ledgers to control accounts.
Completeness, Accuracy
PP&E-Verify legal ownership.
Rights and obligations
PP&E-Verify additions.
Valuation
PP&E-Verify disposals.
Valuation
PP&E-Review scrap sales for unrecorded disposals.
Valuation
PP&E-Recalculate gains and losses.
Valuation, Accuracy
PP&E-Make physical inspections of additions.
Existence, Completeness
PP&E-Perform analysis of repairs and maintenance.
Completeness
PP&E-Recalculate depreciation and depletion.
Valuation
PP&E-Perform analytical review.
Valuation
PP&E-Review lease agreements.
Rights and obligations–disclosure
Accuracy and valuation–disclosure
PP&E-Determine financial statement presentation (major classes, depreciation methods, basis of valuation, estimated lines restrictions, leases).
Completeness
Cash-Test cash transactions as follows:
a. Foot cash journals.
b. Trace postings to ledger accounts.
c. Agree details of bank deposits to client records.
d. Reconcile bank activity for one or two months with cash account activity.
e. Verify cash transactions in one or more
expense accounts.
Accuracy, Occurrence, Completeness
Cash-Count all cash on hand with custodian present.
Existence
Cash-Verify cutoff of cash receipts and cash disbursements.
Cutoff
Cash-Confirm amounts on deposit with banks
Existence, Rights and obligations, Completeness, Valuation
Cash-Prepare four‐column bank reconciliation as follows:
a. Trace checks to cash disbursement.
b. Account for all checks.
c. Review deposits.
d. Review outstanding checks beginning and end.
e. Investigate NSF checks and other unusual items.
Completeness, Occurrence, Cutoff
Cash-Obtain bank cutoff statements 10 to 15 days after year‐end.
Existence
Cash-Trace all bank transfers—be alert for kiting.*
Valuation
Cash-Determine balance sheet presentation (restrictions, cash in foreign or closed
banks).
Valuation‐disclosures
Marketable Securities & Investment Revenue-Examine securities on hand with custodian present (simultaneously with cash, compare serial numbers with records).
Existence
Marketable Securities and Investment Revenue-Confirm securities in possession of others.
Existence, Rights and obligations, Completeness
Marketable Securities and Investment Revenue-Verify purchases and sales of securities
during the year.
Occurrence
Marketable Securities and Investment Revenue-Perform cutoff review.
Cutoff
Marketable Securities and Investment Revenue-Verify gain or loss on security transactions.
Occurrence, Accuracy, Valuation
Marketable Securities and Investment Revenue-Recalculate dividend and interest income.
Valuation