QUESTION 1

Precision is a statistical measure of the maximum likely difference between the sample estimate and the true but unknown population total and is directly related to

Reliability of evidence

Relative risk

Confidence level

Cost benefit analysis

1 points

QUESTION 2

An account balance is $300,000 and there are 25 items in the account, six of which have balances that equal or exceed $15,000. The auditor plans to use a monetary-unit sampling plan with systematic sample selection. To ensure that all accounts with balances of at least $15,000 are selected, the sampling interval should be

6

20

12,000

15,000

1 points

QUESTION 3

In a monetary unit sample with a sampling interval of $5,000, an auditor discovers that a selected account receivable with a recorded amount of $10,000 has an audit amount of $8,000. If this were the only error discovered by the auditor, the projected misstatement for this sample would be

$5,000

$4,000

$2,000

$1,000

1 points

QUESTION 4

. Monetary-unit sampling should not be used if

The population includes several large items

The auditor expects overstatement errors

Many items in the account are expected to have errors

No items in the account are expected to have errors