How do auditors verify sales?

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If a company says it made a $10 million credit sale, how does the auditor verify that this is true?

I mean, how does an auditor know if a sale is really a sale?

The auditor is looking for 3 things:
• A customer order, to show the customer actually ordered something
• A shipping document, to show the company shipped goods to the customer
• A sales invoice, to show the company billed the customer for the goods that were shipped

These 3 documents provide strong evidence that a sale actually occurred.

But they’re not concrete proof, because the company might have forged these documents.

Which is why the auditor would contact the company’s customer directly to ask whether they truly owe money to the company. This is called a confirmation request.

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These kind of content are gold 🙌
Thank you sir

sushilbarik
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The customer still could be a fake customer:-)

NoShadowOfDoubt
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Excellent explanation sir! But I had a doubt. For eg: if an auto company is being audited, how can they verify sales of so many customers? Like wont it be time consuming and cumbersome to call millions of customers?

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