A variation on the preceding test can be used to address questions pertaining to overstated
accounts payable. By selecting the Disbursement Vouchers file as the primary file
and the Receiving Report file as the secondary file, the preceding test will produce a
file of vouchers for which the organization has no record of inventory receipts. This
might indicate that payments are approved solely on the basis of receiving a supplier’s
invoice rather than also verifying that inventories were ordered and actually received.
Unsupported disbursement vouchers may signify an attempt at fraud or a poor control
environment in which multiple payments are made for the same purchase. The latter situation
is now examined further.