You are auditing Hawthorne Industries. The preliminary risk assessment resulted in a high potential for fraud given the number of offices it has across Canada and the high volume of travel-related expenses, as well as the weak controls around expense management. The travel expense account has been assigned to you for substantive testing and you would like to design an ADA to perform the testing. The data you have available include:

• The general ledger

• Corporate credit card data (in aggregate, as well as employee daily totals, location of charges, and vendor category, e.g., restaurant, fuel, hotel)

• Payroll records that include start/end date, vacation and absenteeism data, and role Required

a. What are the main assertions related to this account?

b. Suppose you have decided to conduct a matching technique to perform your ADA to conclude on the assertion(s). Describe the procedures you would perform to do so.

c. What type of risk exists regarding travel expenses for which ADAs may be particularly helpful compared with traditional sampling? Explain.