Latihan Sesi 4 - Kelompok 3
Latihan Sesi 4 - Kelompok 3
Latihan Sesi 4 - Kelompok 3
19-18 (OBJECTIVES 19-2, 19-3) The following misstatements are included in the accounting records
of Newcomb & Company:
a. For each misstatement, state a control that should have prevented it from occurring on a
continuing basis.
b. For each misstatement, state a substantive audit procedure that could uncover it.
1. Direct labor was unintentionally charged to job 620 instead of job 602 by the payroll clerk when he
key-entered the labor distribution sheets. Job 602 was completed and the costs were expensed in
the current year, whereas job 620 was included in work-in-process.
a. Recommended control - internal verification
b. Substantive audit procedure - trace total labor distribution to job input form
2. Joe Block and Frank Demery take turns “punching in” for each other every few days. The absent
employee comes in at noon and tells his foreman that he had car trouble or some other problem.
The foreman does not know that the employee is getting paid for the time.
a. Recommended control - foreman approves time card
b. Substantive audit procedure - observe employees using time card
3. The foreman submits a fraudulent time card for a former employee each week and delivers the
related payroll check to the employee’s house on the way home from work. They split the amount of
the paycheck.
a. Recommended control - foreman approves time card
b. Substantive audit procedure - observe employees using time card
4. Employees often overlook recording their hours worked on job-cost tickets as required by the
system. Many of the client’s contracts are on a cost-plus basis.
a. Recommended control - pay employees only for time charged to job
b. Substantive audit procedure - compare total hours worked from payroll journal to total hours
worked on job ticket
5. The payroll clerk prepares a check to the same nonexistent person every week when he enters
payroll transactions in the computer system, which also records the amount in the payroll journal. He
submits it along with all other payroll checks for signature. When the checks are returned to him for
distribution, he takes the check and deposits it in a special bank account bearing that person’s name.
a. Recommended control - don't return checks to payroll clerk
b. Substantive audit procedure - observe payroll distribution & require ID
6. In withholding payroll taxes from employees, the computer operator deducts $3.50 extra federal
income taxes from several employees each week and credits the amount to his own employee
earnings record.
a. Recommended control - internal verification
b. Substantive audit procedure - recompute federal withholding & trace to records
7. The payroll clerk manually prepares payroll checks but often forgets to record one or two checks in
the computer-prepared payroll journal.
a. Recommended control - use pre-numbered payroll checks & impress bank accts.
b. Substantive audit procedure - reconcile disbursements in payroll journal to disbursements in
bank statements