Answer:
1. When searching for unrecorded liabilities, the auditors consider transactions recorded <u>after</u> year end.
<em>Auditors consider transactions recorded after year end to determine if it was supposed to be recorded in the current period. </em>
2. Accounts payable <u>confirmation</u> can be mailed to vendors from whom substantial purchases have been made.
<em>As a way to keep a document trail, creditors from whom substantial goods were bought from can be mailed a confirmation. </em>
3. To gain overall assurance as to the reasonableness of accounts payable, the auditor may consider <u>ratios</u>.
<em>Ratios such as the Payables turnover can be used to evaluate the reasonableness of Accounts payable. </em>
4. When auditors find unrecorded liabilities, before adjusting they must consider <u>materiality</u>.
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They must consider if the adjustment is material or significant enough to record. </em>
5 Auditiors need to consider <u>shipping terms</u> terms for determining ownership and whether a liability should be recorded.
<em>Shipping terms need to be considered because they can tell who owns goods in transit and therefore if a liability is needed for them. Shipping terms such as FOB Shipping point mean that the business incurs the liability as soon as the seller ships the goods. </em>
<u>Answer:</u>
All of the following are business-level cooperative strategic alliances EXCEPT D) Synergistic strategic alliances.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Business-level Cooperative strategies are used by the firms when they want to grow and improve the performance in the market of individual products. All this is achieved through various strategic alliances: Complementary Strategic Alliance, Competition-response, Uncertainty-reducing, and Competition-reducing strategic alliance. These alliances help overcome various problems of a business in the corporate world.
After listing all these strategies, it is clear that a Synergistic strategic alliance is not a part of business-level cooperative strategic alliances which means that option D is the correct choice.
Synergistic strategic alliance is a kind of agreement among business entities where they can work together to increase their overall output.
Answer:
the journal entry to record warranty expense is:
Dr Warranty expense 30,000
Cr Warranty liability 30,000
the journal entry to record actual expenses related to product warranties:
Dr Warranty liability 10,000
Cr Cash (or inventory, or wages payable) 10,000
Depending on what type of costs are incurred by the company, the account credited will vary, e.g. if units are replaced, then inventory must be credited, or if units are repaired and only labor is used, then wages payable or cash should be credited. Since the question doesn't give us a lot of details, I credited cash.
