Worthington Department Stores
Auditing standards require the auditor to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence (AS 1105.04: Audit Evidence). The audit firm of Hepple & Ramsey was investigated for the audit of Worthington. Worthington is a large discount catalog department store chain. The company recently expanded from 6 to 43 stores by borrowing from several large financial institutions and from a public offering of common stock. A recent investigation has disclosed that Worthington materially overstated net income. This was accomplished by understating accounts payable and recording fictitious supplier credits that further reduced accounts payable. An SEC investigation was critical of the evidence gathered by Worthington’s audit firm, Hepple & Ramsey, in testing accounts payable and the supplier credits. The following is a description of some of the fictitious supplier credits and unrecorded amounts in accounts payable, as well as the audit procedures.
For each of the five instances above, identify deficiencies in the sufficiency and appropriateness of the evidence gathered in the audit of accounts payable of Worthington Stores.
This International Standard on Auditing (ISA) explains what constitutes audit evidence in an audit of financial statements, and deals with the auditor's responsibility to design and perform audit procedures to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to be able to draw reasonable conclusions on which to base.
A recent investigation has disclosed that Worthington materially overstated net income so SA 315 identifying and assesing the risk of material mistatement should be taken care of.
SA 315 deals with the responsibility of auditor in identifying and assessing the risk of material misstatement through understanding the entity and its environment.
SA 530, “Audit Sampling” does not contain any material modifications vis à vis ISA 530. In considering the characteristics of the population from which the sample will be drawn, the auditor may determine that stratification or value-weighted selection is appropriate.
SA 320, materiality on planning and performing auditing, in these case auditor's responsibility to apply the concept of materiality in planning and performing an audit of financial statements.
The materiality concept refers to a situation where the financial information of a company is considered to be material from the point of view of the preparation of the financial statements if it has the potential to alter the view or opinion of a reasonable person.
The auditor may identify deficiencies in internal control not only during this risk assessment process but also at any other stage of the audit. SA 265.
A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis.Here in these case deficiency is found in the internal control hence all the SA guidlines as mentioned above should be followed properly.
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