You are performing an audit of Hawk Company. In evaluating the accounts payable balance you are concerned with the completeness assertion. Which of the following audit procedures best satisfies your concern?
A) Send confirmations to only vendors with large balances.
B) Send confirmations to vendors with large, active, zero balance accounts and a representative sample of all others.
C) Send confirmations to vendors chosen from sample stratified by the dollar balance.
D) Send confirmations to all vendors.

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Option B covers a representative sample of all vendors, not just those with large balances. This ensures completeness in detecting unrecorded liabilities. Sending confirmations to all vendors (Option D) would be ideal but may be impractical due to time and cost limitations.

You Are Performing an Audit of Hawk Company