Period-End Accruals Case

First and foremost, the accounting system used should be updated. The case stated that the system was 30 years old and that prior accounting period transactions could not be locked down, which enabled internal control processes to be bypassed. Enhancing internal

Different materiality bases are considered when determining planning materiality because the magnitude and nature of financial statement misstatements or omissions have different influences on different financial statement users. For example, investors are more interested in the accuracy of numbers involving net income because they are mainly concerned with the company’s ability to increase shareholder wealth. For an audit company, the primary concern when planning materiality is to take into account all expected financial statement users. These different expected users all have different

Scoping and Evaluation Judgments in the Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting 12.1 EyeMax Corporation . . Evaluation of Audit Differences

An accounting cycle is a process, or a series of activities, that consists of collecting an organization’s transactions at the end of a reporting period to prepare essential financial statements of a business (Fleury, 2015). The accounting cycle is a strict, methodical set of rules used to ensure the accuracy and conformity of financial statements (Investopedia, 2017). The steps involved with an accounting cycle, the roles each of the step facilitate, the impact of omission, and what financial statements are assembled from the accounting cycle data.

This course is the first in a two-part series that deals with auditing a company 's financial reports, internal controls, and

Accounting is commonly described as the language of business. It is very important for all business owners to have very good understanding of their finances. Having the knowledge of your business finance, you will know where the money is going. Every business owner should have a good understanding of finance. To have a good understanding business owners needs to understand basic accounting steeps, how does accounting play a role in their business, how to define a financial statement and how the omission of any of these steps would affect the success of a business. Once you have an understanding of accounting/finance and the how it plays

al, 2012, p. 214). Therefore, a material misstatement may not be detected during the audit. In addition, the audit may not detect errors under the materiality level, whether resulting from error, fraud, or misappropriation of assets. Anderson, Olds, and Watershed may decline to express an opinion or issue a report if the firm is unable to complete the audit for any reason.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate (Louwers & Reynolds, 2007). We believe that the audit evidence obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

The auditor should consider planning materiality. When a financial statement account exceeds the planning materiality, that account should be considered significant for both the audit of internal control over financial reporting and the financial statement audit. The more the account exceeds planning materiality, the greater it should be considered significant.

There are several challenges in using financial information from previous periods in this audit. Mainly, the fact that Michael and Brian performed the audits of the previous year’s means that they are biased to believe and trust the information unequivocally. Secondly the fact that CMD was committing fraud by fabricating and destroying evidence and in some cases their third party clients were colluding along with them makes the evidence not trustworthy. An example of this is in the sales returns and allowances. Using the $4.5 million number and not accounting for the $5.3million fourth quarter number. This would seriously affect the company’s liquidity activity ratios Also, using the $7million figure that Michael and Brian came up with, when the number was actually $12million is a huge misstatement

The chief executive of the company was closely working with the vendors whose confirmations were vital in the auditing work and hence they could have submitted false confirmations. The auditing firm established a national risk management program for its clients and so national reviews were done to identify the high risk items in the financial statement. The vendor allowances were particularly high but they were not documented. As such, the auditors were supposed to demand for the documentations and compare them with the real figures. It is however noted that most of the documentations received were non-standard and this could have led to a different audit report given that vendor allowances were earlier identified as a high risk area. Inventory management was found to be poor especially in the allowances for inventory reserves. The audit firm was therefore obliged to carry out a thorough evaluation of the inventory reserves and determine whether it was reasonable. The valuation was also supposed to include all classes of inventory but for the case of the company, the evaluation excluded instances where no sales had been made. Hence, this evaluation could not accurately represent the position of the inventory reserve in the company. (Waters,2003)

My overall conclusion is Manny followed ASPE police record revenue and cost by accrual bases accounting. The FFN will result total revenue $665,000 and net earnings $169,250. According purchase offers suggests that FFN generally sell for an average of two times revenues and four times net earnings. Company selling price will $1,003,500 ($665,000*2+$169,250*4)/2 in 2017. However, FFN will be increase revenue by offer two promotions and will be increase the percentage of magazines sales in next year. I recommended Danny and Manny continue to operating FFN few years to get better return on their investment.

“Audit committee members or their agents may proactively examine areas, functions, and personnel where collusive fraud risk is reasonably likely to be perpetrated,” (Zmags). The search for fraud, even if performed in the same location multiple times, may continue until the audit committee feels confident that they have ruled out the probability that fraud is prevalent. One of the biggest risks of fraud is management override of controls, requiring the extensive search for risk in, “journal entries and other adjustments and reviewing accounting estimates for possible biases that could result in material misstatements,” (Nysscpa).

Field Work Standard #2 : The auditor must obtain a sufficient understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control, to assess the risk of material misstatement of the financial statements whether due to error or fraud, and to design the nature, timing, and extent of further audit procedures (AICPA). Enron had no procedure for internal controls. Therefore, Anderson could not have sufficient understanding of the internal controls.

b. Describe the implications of the resulting ratios for the auditor’s audit strategy in year 5. What specific audit objectives are likely to be misstated? How should the auditor respond in terms of potential audits tests?