(True and False) 1. Fraud auditors should be equally concerned with liabilities being overstated as well as...

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1. Fraud auditors should be equally concerned with liabilities being overstated as well as understated.

2. Proactive searching for analytical symptoms means that we are looking for accounts that appear too high or too low or that are unusual in some other way.

3. Confirmations with vendors that the company owes money to are an effective way to discover unrecorded liabilities.

4. Accrued liabilities are important accounts to look at when searching for fraud because it is easy to understate liabilities in these accounts.

5. Symptoms of unrecorded contingent liabilities can be found by performing analytical procedures on certain financial statement ratios.

6. Some misleading footnotes have no effect on financial statement balances.

7. Understatement of liability fraud is usually more difficult to find than overstatement of asset fraud.

8. When searching for unrecorded liabilities, investigating vendors with zero balances would be just as important as investigating vendors with large balances.

Contingent liabilities
A contingent liability is an obligation of business related to an uncertain future event. The business must record it in its financial statements if the amount can be reliably estimated and it is probable that amount will be paid by business as a...
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Fraud examination

ISBN: 978-0538470841

4th edition

Authors: Steve Albrecht, Chad Albrecht, Conan Albrecht, Mark zimbelma

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