Accounts Payable
Accrued Liabilities
Retained Earnings & ICs
Leases
Firm Guidelines and Analytical Procedures
100

This item typically begins the purchase cycle

What is a purchase requisition?

100

This is the account an invoice is recorded to after the AP system has been locked/closed.

Accrued liabilities

100

Retained earnings is a sum of a company’s earnings from prior periods after deducting what?

Dividends paid to the company’s shareholders

100

This is the date the leased asset becomes available for use.

What is the lease commencement date?

100

This is the main driver for all analytical procedures.

What are changes in revenues.

200

This is the directional risk regarding AP.

What is understatement?

200

This is the calculation representing the allocation of payroll costs for the final pay period between the current year and the subsequent year.

Accrued payroll
200

These PPC documents provide the listing of Transaction Classes and internal controls that are generally will be applicable to the internal control walkthrough area you are working on.

What are the control activity forms?

200
An alternative available to non-public companies in determining the incremental borrowing rate.

What is the risk free rate?

200

This is a required component of analytical procedures.

What are expectations?
300

These are the 3 documents the AP department should use to match and record AP for inventory purchased.

What are the PO, receiving report, and invoice?

300

Accrued warranties and return allowances are an example of what?

Note: Be more specific than "Accrued Liability"
Management estimate
300

This is the difference between a process and an internal control.

Processes are the actions performed by accounting personnel. Controls are the actions that ensure safety and accuracy.

300

In addition to the weighted-average discount rate, what other weighted-average should be disclosed?

Weighted-average remaining lease terms

300

Is it called SUL or UL Search

UL Search

400

An unpaid invoice for services received within the period being audited that is found on the AP aging.

What is "properly included"?

400

Cash received from customers for future services to be provided are generally recorded in this account.

What is "unearned revenue"?

400

The key control for this prompt is what?

"All hourly employees add their time daily into the time keeping system online. At the end of the pay period, each employee’s supervisor or manger will review the timecards for reasonableness and proper coding and approve the timesheet."

Timecards are approved by the employee’s supervisor or manager.

400
Capital leases have been replaced by this lease classification type.

Finance leases

400

What report do we utilize to set industry expectations?

FirstResearch

500

The Search for Unrecorded Liabilities Search provides primarily tests these two assertions.

What are Completeness and Cutoff.

500

In layman's terms, "Determine the basis and method of accrual" translates to what?

Is this in accordance with GAAP?

500

How do you roll forward retained earnings?

Compare the beginning retained earnings in the trial balance to the ending retained earnings to the trial balance.

500

In addition to the lease liability, operating leases will now show this balance sheet item?

ROU asset

500

What are the three items we want stated on every major workpaper?

Purpose, procedures, conclusion