OR Sapphire Stones Ltd. has trade payables and other current liabilities of 210 crores and 58 crores respectively at the end of the financial year…
CA Intermediate · Auditing and Ethics · PYQS · January 2026
OR Sapphire Stones Ltd. has trade payables and other current liabilities of 210 crores and 58 crores respectively at the end of the financial year 2024-25. Mr. Amit, the auditor of the company, wants to ensure that trade payables and other current liabilities reported in the balance sheet have been valued appropriately. State the audit procedures that Mr. Amit should perform to ensure that trade payables and other current liabilities are valued properly.
Suggested Answer and Working Notes:
Mr. Amit should perform following audit procedures to ensure that trade payables and other current liabilities are valued properly: Review the process followed by the Company to identify, if any, old creditor balance/ liability needs to be written back. This will include a consistency comparison with the method used in the last year and determination of whether the method is appropriate for the underlying business environment.Obtain the ageing of payable balances and the list of vendors with whom the Company has disputes and any claims from customers, under litigation and compare with previous year.Check that write backs in the liability balances assessed as no longer payable have been approved by an appropriate and authorized member of senior management, for example – CEO/MD.Check that the restatement of foreign currency trade payables has been done properly in accordance with AS 11.Understand management's process to identify the principal amount and the interest due thereon (if any) remaining unpaid to any Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises suppliers at the end of accounting year. Test check the management process to assess if the auditor could rely on the management process.
Topics: Special Features of Audit of Different type of Entities, Audit of Items of Financial Statements
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