Audit Risk is the risk that an auditor issues an incorrect opinion on the financial statements. Audit Risk has three components i.e. Inherent Risk, Control Risk and Detection Risk.
Audit Planning and Analytical Procedures (A)Audit Planning Two independent material situations ar...
QUESTION 4 Audit Planning and Analytical Procedures (15 marks) (A)Audit Planning Your audit firm, Samuel and Samuel, is the auditor of Greenfield Pty Ltd (Greenfield), a large proprietary company with a 30 June year end. The company has two subsidiaries: Range Pty Ltd (Range), which runs a sheep station in outback New South Wales, and Doggie Pty Ltd (Doggie) a mobile dog-grooming service for which it generally sells franchises (but which it sometimes operates directly). You have had an initial...
2019 Audit of Beta Industries: Summary Information Assume you are an audit manager, today is May 15, 2019, and your public accounting firm is currently planning the 2019 financial statement audit of Beta Home Goods, a retailer in the home goods and supply industry. Beta is a public company with a 12/31 year-end, and a new client for your firm. The audit partner has asked you to help plan the audit for this new client using the following information obtained...
PART 2 THE COSO FRAMEWORK CASE (22 MINUTES - 29 MARKS) Wellness is nutrition supplement provider and is planning a public offering in the next two years. The CEO and CFO are close friends since high school and their spouses and children have become friends too. Wellness has an independent audit committee of board of directors that oversees the external and internal auditors. The audit committee also sets management compensation based on financial results. The company is planning an expansion...
ask back to top Background You are a manager in the audit division at Miller Yates Howarth (MYH), an accounting firm with offices throughout the major regional centres of NSW and Queensland. Although a medium sized firm by national standards, MYH is the second largest regional accounting firm in Australia. Most of MYH’s audit clients are in the agriculture, mining, manufacturing and property industries. All those industries are currently under pressure, either from a downturn in commodity prices or fierce...
LO 10-6, 10 10-36 Based on an assessment of audit risk, the auditors are concerned with the following two risks: 1. The risk that that the client might be making duplicate payments to vendors. 2. The risk that the client's accounting clerk might be making unauthorized payments to himself. a. Assuming that the client has a manual accounting system, describe how the auditors can design a test to identify the duplicate payments and unauthorized payments. b. Assuming that the client...
CASE 20 Enron: Not Accounting for the Future* INTRODUCTION Once upon a time, there was a gleaming office tower in Houston, Texas. In front of that gleaming tower was a giant "E" slowly revolving, flashing in the hot Texas sun. But in 2001, the Enron Corporation, which once ranked among the top Fortune 500 companies, would collapse under a mountain of debt that had been concealed through a complex scheme of off-balance-sheet partnerships. Forced to declare bankruptcy, the energy firm...
Case: Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to CollapseIntroductionOnce upon a time, there was a gleaming office tower in Houston, Texas. In front of that gleaming tower was a giant “E,” slowly revolving, flashing in the hot Texas sun. But in 2001, the Enron Corporation, which once ranked among the top Fortune 500 companies, would collapse under a mountain of debt that had been concealed through a complex scheme of off-balance-sheet partnerships. Forced to declare bankruptcy, the energy firm laid off 4,000...