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Chapter 22
NON-CURRENT ASSETS
1. Relevant assertions
As for any account balance, the relevant assertions for non-current assets are existence, rights and 
obligations, completeness, accuracy, valuation and allocation, classification and presentation. See 
also Chapter 24 for an illustration of documentation for non-current assets.
2. Audit procedures
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Physical inspection. Remember many non-current assets have a very high value. One of the 
simplest ways to check on the existence of the asset is to actually see it. The direction of testing 
for existence is from the accounting records (non-current asset register) to the physical assets. If 
an asset no longer exists, it must be derecognised (see disposals). In addition to checking 
whether the asset exists, physical inspection may allow the auditor to detect if the asset needs 
to be written down (impairment) because it is damaged or no longer used.
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Purchase invoices and cash receipts. Additions of new non-current assets and disposals of old 
ones should be checked to invoices and to receipts respectively. If the addition is material you 
would probably expect to trace it back to a purchase requisition and if it is very material, it is 
likely that the acquisition will have been discussed in the board meeting and should be found in 
board minutes. Similarly larger material disposals will often be discussed at board level.
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Scrutiny of repairs and maintenance. A non-current asset addition should be capitalised 
whereas repairs and maintenance costs should be expensed. Therefore it is important to 
scrutinise the repairs and maintenance account for items which should be more properly 
recognised as non-current asset additions to ensure completeness.
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Reconciliation of the carrying amounts in the general ledger accounts to the non-current asset 
register. The financial statement balances are supported by the detail in the non-current register 
and should reconcile to the cost and accumulated depreciation amounts.
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Reperformance of depreciation calculations. It is important to check the accuracy of 
depreciation calculations. This may be possible through a 'proof in total' or 'reasonableness 
test' (a substantive analytical procedure) on the total depreciation expense for a class of assets.
However, if there are fully-depreciated assets (on which there should be no further depreciation) 
it may be necessary to reperform a sample of detailed calculations on individual assets in the 
asset register.
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Check disposals. When checking disposals it is important to make sure that the non-current 
asset register is properly adjusted, the cost of the item is taken out of the cost account and that 
the accumulated depreciation is taken out of the accumulated depreciation account, and that 
the profit or loss of disposal is properly calculated. Remember that where an asset is 'traded-in' 
in part exchange for a new asset, the fair value of the old asset should be accounted for as 
disposal proceeds and included in the cost of the new asset.
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Inspect documents of title. This confirms ownership: physical inspection merely tells you the 
asset exists but how do you know the company owns it? They could have sold an asset and 
could be renting it back. Therefore documents of title are extremely important.