Recall that AMRE computed the advertising costs to be deferred for a given accounting period by multiplying the "cost per lead" for that period by the number of"unset leads" at the end of the period. One method AMRE used to inflate its reported profits was to create fictitious unset leads.Staff auditors of Price Waterhouse assigned to the AMRE engagement verified the cost-per-lead computation during the 1988 audit.However,the staff auditors failed to adequately test the number of unset leads reported by AMRE at the end of fiscal 1988. The auditors simply compared the number of unset leads on two client-prepared schedules.