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In October 2020, the head office of Joey Limited was damaged by a fire. A lot of the company's accounting records were destroyed before the audit for the year ended 31 December 2020 took place, as Joey Limited has no practice of using electronic accounting records. The company's financial accountant has prepared financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 on the basis of estimates and the information he has been able to salvage. You have completed the audit of these financial statements.
a) Explain how your audit report would be affected by the fire at the head office of Joey Limited and the possible audit opinions in this situation.
b) Compare the responsibilities of directors and auditors regarding the published financial statement of Joey Limited.
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- In October 2020, the head office of Joey Limited was damaged by a fire. A lot of the company's accounting records were destroyed before the audit for the year ended 31 December 2020 took place, as Joey Limited has no practice of using electronic accounting records. The company's financial accountant has prepared financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 on the basis of estimates and the information he has been able to salvage. You have completed the audit of these financial statements. a) Explain how your audit report would be affected by the fire at the head office of Joey Limited and the possible audit opinions in this situation.Require:b) Compare the responsibilities of directors and auditors regarding the published financial statement of Joey Limited.As the auditor for Company A, you discover that a material sale ($500,000 sale; cost of goods of $300,000) was made to a customer this year. Because of poor internal accounting controls, the sale was never recorded. Your client makes a management decision not to bill the customer because such a long time has passed since the shipment was made. You determine, to the best of your ability, that the sale was not fraudulent. Using the framework for ethical decision making, determine whether the auditor should require either a recording or a disclosure of the sales transaction. Instructions: Using the framework for ethical decision making, determine whether the auditor should require either a recording or a disclosure of the sales transaction. Please make sure to use at least 100 words in your response. Once you give your response, please respond to at least two of your peers using at least 50 words in your responses. Remember to follow the netiquette guidelines found in the course…Sunny Best is the engagement partner for the financial report audit of BigMac Ltd for the year ended 31 December, 2021. The following material events or transactions have come to Sunny Best’s attention before he is scheduled to issue his report on 28 February, On 1 February, 2022, a plant owned by BigMac Ltd was damaged by a flood, resulting in an uninsured loss of inventory. For each of the above events or transactions, discuss audit procedures that should have brought the item to the auditor’s attention, and indicate the treatment required in the financial report. Give reasons for your decision.
- You were assigned to audit the financial statements of Swansea Corporation as at and for the year ended December 31, 2021. Your senior asked you to draft a memo on materiality and tolerable error for your client. Swansea Corporation has incurred substantial net losses due to COVID-19 pandemic. Up to 2019, it has been profitable. Which of the following is least likely to be your starting point in computing materiality? Group of answer choices Normalized net income Net loss Total assets Normalized revenueFor the following independent and material situations, assume that you are the audit partner on the engagement: There was a fire that broke out a month before the year-end date. The fire has destroyed most of the accounting records and underlying receipts and invoices. Management has reconstructed the accounting records using its bank statements and other means, but they are uncertain if all material matters have been taken into account and they would like to wait until after a couple of months when subsequent receipts may assist them to compile further outstanding items. You have serious doubts as to the accuracy of the compiled figures and have been unable to verify any of the material balances. Kieko Co. Ltd has prepared financial statements but has decided to exclude the statement of cash flows. Management explains to you that the users of their financial statements find this statement confusing and prefer not to have it included. Required: state what type of audit report are…During your annual audit of Walker Distributing Company, your assistant, Jane Williams, reports to you that, although a number of entries were made during the year in the general ledger account Notes Payable to Officers, she decided that it was not necessary to audit the account because it had a zero balance at year-end. Required: Do you agree with your assistant’s decision? Discuss.
- It is February 16, 2020, and you are auditing Davenport Corporation's financial statements for 2019 (which will be issued in March 2020). You read in the newspaper that Travis Corporation, a major customer of Davenport, is in financial difficulty. Included in Davenports accounts receivable is 50,000 (a material amount) owed to it by Travis. You approach Jim Davenport, president, with this information and suggest that a reduction of accounts receivable and recognition of a loss for 2019 might be appropriate. Jim replies, Why should we make an adjustment? Ted Travis, the president of Travis Corporation, is a friend of mine; he will find a way to pay us, one way or another. Furthermore, this occurred in 2020, so lets wait and see what happens; we can always make an adjustment later this year. Our 2019 income and year-end working capital are not that high; our creditors and shareholders wouldnt stand for lower amounts than they already are. Required: From financial reporting and ethical perspectives, prepare a response to Jim Davenport regarding this issue.Below here were subsequent event that occurs in your client. Consider that all events were has material effect on client’s financial statement. The auditor is auditing financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2020 and is completing the audit in March 15, 2021.4) On February 15, 2021, the civil court decided that Client Company must pay compensation loss due to defect product sold to their customer. lawsuits started in court since June 20205) On February 20, 2021, a major of client customer which has large amount of outstanding A/R suddenly fill for bankruptcy6) On April 1, 2021 fire rage accident destroy client warehouse and the loss were materialQuestions:Indicate type 1 subsequent event, type 2 subsequent event, or not subsequent event. What kinds of action, client need to do? Adjust, disclose, or no need to do adjust/disclose for every point form 1) to 6). Provide the reason why it should be adjusted or disclose or neither.You are an audit manager at Hall & Associates, who have been approached to conduct the audit of Computer Games Ltd (CGL), a manufacturer of interactive computer games, for the year ended 30 June 2019. Hall & Associates has not previously audited CGL’s financial report, although it has undertaken other types of engagements for CGL. Last year CGL hired Hall & Associates to assist in the redesign of CGL’s accounting software to ensure that internal controls over internet sales were adequate to ensure the confidentiality of customer data and accuracy of recording. The new software was implemented at the beginning of the current year and appears to be working satisfactorily. As part of this year’s audit, you expect to review the internal controls at CGL, including the controls within the IT systems. As part of CGL’s financing arrangements with its bank, Easymoney Ltd, it has a loan covenant that stipulates that the quick asset ratio cannot be less than 1:1 or Easymoney Ltd has…
- In reviewing of subsequent events, you learned of heavy damage to the client’s warehouse due to a fire occurred after year-end. The loss will partly be reimbursed by insurance. The newspaper described the event in detail. The client made adjustment to related inventories and buildings to reflect the loss. All facts are the same as situation 1, but the client did not make adjustment to year end figure of inventory. During the course of examination on your audit client, you suspect that a material amount of assets has been misappropriated through fraud. Management refuses to allow you to investigate further to confirm the suspicions. The client’s financing arrangements expired and the amount outstanding was past due. The client cannot renegotiate or obtain refinancing and is considering filing bankruptcy. Financial statements were prepared using the going concern basis and this fact is not disclosed. An equipment which was used by the client for more than 5 years is considered to…Pls explain first how you solve it. Thank you. F COMPANY, organized on March 1, 2021, has a very poor internal control system. Thecompany's cashier is also its accountant. After 9 months of operations, the company's managersuspects that the cashier-accountant has been misappropriating company collections. You havebeen engaged to audit the company's accounts to determine the extent of fraud, if any. You started the audit on November 15. On that date, the cash on hand per your surprise countwas P5,140. Also on that date, the bank confirmed that the balance of the company's currentaccount was P26,328. Your examination of the records reveals that a check for P1,852 wasoutstanding on November 15. The company's markup is 40% of sales. Further examination of the company's records reveals the following balances at November 15,2021:So, owner of a trading company engaged your services as auditor. There is a discrepancy between the company’s income and the sales volume. The owner suspects that the staff is committing theft. You are to determine whether or not this is true. Your investigation revealed the following: The physical taken on December 31, 2018 under your observation showed that cost was P26,500. The inventory on January 1, 2018 showed cost of P39,000. The accounts receivable as of January 1, 2018 were P13,500. During 2018, accounts receivable written off amounted to P1,000. Accounts receivable as of December 31, 2018 were P37,500. Outstanding purchase invoices amounted to P30,000 at the end of 2018. At the beginning of 2018, they were P37,500. Receipts from customers during 2018 amounted to P300,000. Disbursement to merchandise creditors amounted to P200,000. The average gross profit rate was 40% of net sales. Required: Total Sales Total Purchases Inventory Shortage
