The Client May Use a Variety of Methods to Understate

The client may use a variety of methods to understate liabilities,interest expense and long-term debt.These include

A) Recording operating leases as capital leases to avoid putting the liability on the balance sheet.
B) Failing to record interest expense.
C) Changing the interest rate used to capitalize long-term liabilities to vary the amount of interest expense
D) Failing to disclose special arrangements,such as transactions with special purpose entities.
E) Forward dating stock options and failing to record compensation expense for the difference between the market price of the stock at the date of the grant and the price of the stock on the date of the backdating.
F) both A and B
G) both B and C
H) both D and E