REPORT OF FACTUAL FINDINGS
To (those who engaged the auditor)
We have performed the procedures agreed with you and enumerated below with respect
to the accounts payable of ABC Company as at (date), set forth in the accompanying
schedules (not shown in this example). Our engagement was undertaken in accordance
with the International Standard on Related Services (or refer to relevant national
standards or practices) applicable to agreed-upon procedures engagements. The
procedures were performed solely to assist you in evaluating the validity of the accounts
payable and are summarized as follows:
1. We obtained and checked the addition of the trial balance of accounts payable
as at (date) prepared by ABC Company, and we compared the total to the
balance in the related general ledger account.
2. We compared the attached list (not shown in this example) of major suppliers and
the amounts owing at (date) to the related names and amounts in the trial balance.
3. We obtained suppliers’ statements or requested suppliers to confirm balances
owing at (date).
4. We compared such statements or confirmations to the amounts referred to in 2.
For amounts which did not agree, we obtained reconciliations from ABC
Company. For reconciliations obtained, we identified and listed outstanding
invoices, credit notes and outstanding checks, each of which was greater than
xxx. We located and examined such invoices and credit notes subsequently
received and checks subsequently paid and we ascertained that they should in
fact have been listed as outstanding on the reconciliations.
We report our findings below:
(a) With respect to item 1 we found the addition to be correct and the total amount
to be in agreement.
(b) With respect to item 2 we found the amounts compared to be in agreement.
(c) With respect to item 3 we found there were suppliers’ statements for all such
suppliers.
(d) With respect to item 4 we found the amounts agreed, or with respect to
amounts which did not agree, we found ABC Company had prepared
reconciliations and that the credit notes, invoices and outstanding checks over