The following are various changes in audit circumstances. Audit Circumstance 1. Analytical procedures indicated a significant slowing

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The following are various changes in audit circumstances.
Audit Circumstance
1. Analytical procedures indicated a significant slowing in accounts receivable turnover.
2. The client entered into sales contracts with new customers that differ from the client's standard sales contracts.
3. The client had a significant increase in sales near year-end.
4. Accounts receivable confirmations were ineffective due to a very low response rate in the prior year audit.
5. The client began experiencing an increase in returns due to product changes that resulted in increased defects.
6. You found several pricing errors in your substantive tests of transactions for sales.
7. In performing substantive test of transactions for cash receipts, you found that receipts were promptly recorded in customer accounts, but there were delays in depositing the receipts at the bank.
8. The client entered into a new loan agreement with the bank. Accounts receivable are pledged as collateral for the loan.
9. The client did not reconcile the accounts receivable subsidiary records with the accounts receivable balance in the general ledger on a regular basis.

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Match each change in audit circumstance with the most likely test of details of balances response. Each response is used once.
a. Expand testing of sales returns after year-end and compare the level of returns with the prior year.
b. Send positive confirmations that include requests for information on side agreements and special terms.
c. Increase the number of accounts traced from the accounts receivable trial balance to the accounts receivable subsidiary records.
d. Expand the review of cash receipts after year-end to evaluate the collectibility of accounts receivable.
e.
Increase the sample size for sales cutoff testing for sales recorded before year-end.
f. Send a confirmation to the bank confirming amounts pledged as collateral under loan agreements.
g. Increase the sample size for positive confirmations of accounts receivable.
h.
While at the client's premises at year-end, obtain information on the last few cash receipt at year-end for cash receipts cutoff testing.
i. Perform alternative procedures to test the existence and accuracy of accounts receivable instead of sending positive confirmations.

Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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