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Q. An auditor has set the materiality level for the financial statements as a whole at $125,000. Which of the following misstatements would the auditor most likely consider material?
a. The client did not record $47,000 in trade accounts payable at year end.
b. The client did not disclose $45,000 of related party transactions in the footnotes.
c. The client misclassified $42,000 of supplies expense as miscellaneous expense.
d. The client’s estimate of the allowance for doubtful accounts is $40,000 more than the auditor’s estimate.The answer is b).
Why is that? I don’t get it. And there’s no explanation on the AICPA released questions deck or on the Internet.
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