8.42 Unrecorded Liabilities Procedures. You are in the final stages of your audit of the financial
statements of Ozine Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2014, when the corporation’s
president consults you. The president believes there is no point to your examining
the 2015 voucher register and testing data in support of 2015 entries. She stated that any
bills pertaining to 2014 that were received too late to be included in the December voucher
register were recorded by a year-end journal entry and the internal auditor tested for unrecorded
liabilities after the year-end. The president will provide you a letter certifying that
there are no unrecorded liabilities.
Required:
a. Should your procedures for unrecorded liabilities be affected by the fact that the client
made a journal entry to record 2014 bills that were received later? Explain.
b. Should your test for unrecorded liabilities be affected by the fact that a letter is obtained
in which a responsible management official certifies that, to the best of that person’s
knowledge, all liabilities have been recorded? Explain.
c. Should your test for unrecorded liabilities be eliminated or reduced because of the internal
audit work? Explain.
d. What sources, in addition to the 2015 voucher register, should you consider for locating
possible unrecorded liabilities?