Practical Audit Questions on Trade Payable and Trade Receivable as follows:
Question 1
Recently Gold Trading Group Co faces problem of controlling trade receivable after financial manager resigned.
Shareholders of company suspect a few trade receivables are incorrect, so they require internal auditor check one customer, Trading Co, as first sample. This customer trade receivable is required to check from beginning of business relationship with Trading Co until today.
List of Individual trade receivable for each customer as follows:
| ABC | 10,000 |
| Top Trade | 5,000 |
| Premium Group | 2,000 |
| XZY | 20,000 |
| Trading Co | 3,000 |
| AZC Group | 7,000 |
| ATB | 9,000 |
| OTC Co | 300 |
| AQZ | 6,000 |
| TYU | 15,000 |
| Total | 77,300 |
Required:
Ending balance of trade receivable for Trading Co is $3,000; the first day of business relationship with Trading Co is 20 January 2015 and today is 2 November 2016. You are required to list and explain practical internal audit procedures for this case.
Question 2
AZC Import and Export Company is medium company that has significant trade payables while trade receivable is controlled strictly. At past time 20 Feb 2013, AZC purchased a meeting table of $2,000 from a supplier, World Diamond Group, and company paid on 1 March 2013, but on 15 March 2013, World Diamond Group issued invoice again and company paid without checking detail.
The following trades payable for each vendor as of 02 November 2016 are as follows:
| QTG | 908,000 |
| Great One Co | 7,000 |
| Import and Export Co | 9,000 |
| TBK Shop | 15,000 |
| QAX | 5,000 |
| Top One | 32,000 |
| World Diamond Group | 10,000 |
| PPY Co | -6,000 |
| Trading Co | 5,000 |
| AEL Group | 13,000 |
| Total | 998,000 |
Required:
- Explain practical possible reasons which make trade payable of PPY Co become negative figures.
- You are required to audit World Diamond Group trade payable for all transactions from 16 March 2013 to 2 November 2016; we may assume that trade payable on 15 March 2013 is $9,500, so movement amount of trade payable increases by $500 ( $10,000 – $9,500). List and explain practical ways that you, internal auditor, should use for checking this trade payable.