To reduce the risks associated with accepting fax responses to requests for confirmations of accounts receivable, an auditor most likely would

a. Examine the shipping documents that provide evidence for the existence assertion
b. Verify the sources and contents of the faxes in telephone calls to the senders
c. Consider the faxes to be nonresponses and evaluate them as unadjusted differences
d. Inspect the faxes for forgeries or alterations and consider them to be acceptable if none are noted

Ans: b. Verify the sources and contents of the faxes in telephone calls to the senders

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