Auditing and Assurance Services 1st Edition by Iris Stuart

Exercise 23

American Tissue
Consider the failure to apply the lower-of-cost-or-market valuation to year-end inventory as reported in the chapter for American Tissue.
a. What happens to the financial statements when inventory is overstated Do outsiders receive information that is relevant and reliable
b. What management assertion is violated when the company fails to record the adjustment to inventory
c. Design a substantive audit procedure that an auditor could use to determine whether inventory is correctly valued at lower of cost of market at year-end.