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1. When creating an audit program and designing audit procedures...........the auditors should consider use of the cheapest statistical selection methods possible, to lower the cost of the audit.
2. A representative audit sample..........is likely to provide a reasonable basis for drawing a conclusion about an entire population.
3. Sometimes an audit population may be sufficiently small so that........the auditor can audit every item in population.
4. Risk of incorrect acceptance is defined as...........the risk that the auditor concludes that a material misstatement does not exist when it does exist.
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