An internal audit director has noticed that staff auditors are presenting more oral reports to supplement written reports.
The best reason for the increased use of oral reports by the auditors is that they
An audit of accounts payable was made to determine if the error rate was within the stated policy of 0.5%. One hundred of the 10,000 accounts payable transactions were randomly selected using a 95% confidence level. No errors were found.
With 95% certainty, one can conclude that the sample results
The requirements for staffing level, education and training, and audit research should be included in
An audit team has been assigned to review ‘the customer satisfaction measurement system’ that the industrial products division implemented two years ago. This system consists of the division's customer service office conducting an annual mail survey. A survey is sent to 100 purchasing departments randomly selected from all customers who made purchases in the prior 12 months. The survey is three pages long and its 30 questions use a mixture of response modes (e.g., some questions are open-ended, some multiple choice, and others use a response scale). The customer service office mails the survey in September and tabulates the results for questionnaires returned by October 15. Only one mail is sent. If the customer does not return the questionnaire, no follow-up is conducted. When the survey was last conducted, 45 of the questionnaires were not returned.
Which of the following is not an advantage of face-to-face interviews over mail surveys?
An organization uses a service bureau to process its hourly payroll transactions. The internal auditor is concerned that the hourly payroll for the year has been processed correctly and, in particular, the computation of employee withholding for pension contributions is in accordance with the union contract, which specifies charges each quarter.
Which of the following audit procedures would best accomplish the audit objective?