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Explain ‘roll-forward’ procedures. When are they appropriate?

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Roll forward procedures are a set of accounting and auditing processes used to update financial statements from a previous date to the present or to a specified later date These procedures are typical…View the full answer


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Chapter # 9- Execution of the audit — performing substantive procedures
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