Sales procedures that were encountered during the regular annual audit of Marvel Wholesale Distributing Company are described below.

Customer orders are received by the sales-order department. A clerk computes the dollar amount of the order and sends it to the credit department for approval. Credit approval is stamped on the order and returned to the sales-order department. An invoice is prepared in two copies, and the order is filed in the customer order file. The customer copy of the invoice is sent to the billing department and held in the pending file, awaiting notification that the order has been shipped. The shipping copy of the invoice is routed through the warehouse, and the shipping department has authority for the respective departments to release and ship the merchandise. Shipping department personnel pack the order and prepare a three-copy bill of lading: The original copy is mailed to the customer, the second copy is sent with the shipment, and the other is filed in sequence in the bill of lading file. The invoice shipping copy is sent to the billing department. The billing clerk matches the received shipping copy with the customer copy from the pending file. Both copies of the invoice are priced, extended, and footed. The customer copy is then mailed directly to the customer, and the shipping copy is sent to the accounts receivable clerk. The accounts receivable clerk enters the invoice data in a sales-accounts receivable journal, posts the customers account in the subsidiary customers accounts ledger, and files the shipping copy in the sales invoice file. The invoices are numbered and filed in sequence.

3. To gather audit evidence that uncollected items in Marvel Companys customers accounts represented valid trade receivables, the auditor should select a sample of items from the population represented by the

a. Customer order file. b. Bill of lading file. c. Subsidiary customers accounts ledger. d. Sales invoice file.

4. To gather audit evidence that uncollected items in Marvel Companys customers accounts represented valid trade receivables, the auditor should select a sample of items from the population represented by the

a. Customer order file. b. Bill of lading file. c. Subsidiary customers accounts ledger. d. Sales invoice file.

5. An auditor who has confirmed accounts receivable may discover that the sales journal was held open past year end if

a. Positive confirmation requests sent to debtors are not returned. b. Negative confirmation requests sent to debtors are not returned. c. Most of the returned negative confirmation requests indicate that the debtor owes a larger balance than the amount being confirmed. d. Most of the returned positive confirmation requests indicate that the debtor owes a smaller balance than the amount being confirmed