Unit 6 Assignment
Eddie Mathis
AC410-01, Unit 6
Professor Cochran
12–21. Nolan Manufacturing Company retains you on April 1 to perform an audit for the fiscal year ending June 30. During the month of May, you make extensive studies of internal control over inventories. All goods purchased pass through a receiving department under the direction of the chief purchasing agent. The duties of the receiving department are to unpack, count, and inspect the goods. The quantity received is compared with the quantity shown on the receiving department’s copy of the purchase order. If there is no discrepancy, the purchase order is stamped “OK—Receiving Dept.” and forwarded to the accounts payable section of the accounting
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In performing its analysis for impairment of assets at year-end, management of Happy Chicken determined that the carrying value of the asset may not be recoverable. As a result, management developed an estimate of the fair value of the location using a discounted cash flow model. The estimated fair value of the location was determined to be $1.5 million, which resulted in an impairment loss of about $500,000. The undiscounted future cash flows are equal to $1.7 million.
A. State why the audit of fair values is often difficult. Auditing financial statements whose items are based on fair values are difficult because these values are often determined using assumptions which are subjective.
B. Describe how you might approach the audit of the impairment loss in this situation. As an auditor I may decide to use a valuation specialist work. Alternatively, I could test and evaluate the managements’ model for valuation. Under this approach, I would test for appropriateness of the valuation method, determine if the assumptions are reasonable and consistent, and verify the accuracy, completeness, and relevance on the data which the fair values have been measured.
C. If you decide to use the work of a valuation specialist to audit the estimate of fair value, describe your responsibilities with respect to using the specialist’s work. As an auditor, I would be required to verify the professional qualifications of the valuation specialist and
6. Although you are basically satisfied with the analysis thus far, you are concerned about the
The ordering process begins with the decision of the customer to submit their order simply by either calling, faxing or mailing their order information. When a customer calls in their order, the customer service representatives takes down pertinent customer information, which includes the customer's name, billing and shipping address, product number and description, quantity and shipping instructions. While taking down the order, the customer service representative access the company's order entry system where inventory checks are conducted as well as credit checks are processed. In addition, delivery options are advised to the customer. Here the customer decides
To begin the audit, a review of previous 2 years of financial statements, provided by current or previous auditors for any unusual business transactions relating to revenue.
Fair-value measurement and presentation of an entity’s assets and liabilities result in increasing relevancy of financial statements information, so that readers of the financial statements will not have to make complex adjustments in analyzing the entity. Furthermore, the fair-value
Sony have been known worldwide as a Japanese multinational company, its efforts trying to expanding business in United States, have made that Sony acquires CBS Records and Columbia Pictures. Thus, creating Sony Music and Sony Pictures, which represent Sony entertainment. This involved to the company in $1.2 billion of debt, and assigned goodwill assets for $3.8 billion.
We will discuss audit considerations concerning when testing is appropriate for grouping of long-lived assets for purposes of recognition and measurement of an impairment loss.
We can improve partnership working through effective communication and information sharing. By working as a team and having regular staff meetings, with colleagues and other health care professionals.
What potential tax problems might result if an individual pursues his plan to transfer 40% of the corporate stock to his two children as gifts? Would it make any difference if an individual received all voting stock and had the new corporation transfer nonvoting stock to his children?
a. What is the authoritative guidance for asset impairment? Briefly discuss the scope of the standard (i.e., explain the types of transactions to which the standard applies)
Assess the degree to which the firm’s accounting reflects the underlying business reality. Identify accounting distortions and evaluate their impact on profits and the sustainability of profits.
Morris Mining Corporation owns and operates mining facilities that are located in the United States, and Canada. This company primarily distributes extracted ores and minerals to their customers. Recently, in January 2015, Morris Mining acquired the mining company King Co. Once the company has been acquired, Mining Morris plans to record the difference of the purchase price and identifiable net assets as goodwill. The identifiable assets and liabilities of King Co. are going to be recorded at fair value on Morris Mining 's books. There has been discussion as to how the company is going to report the fair value for the patent that is part of the assets they acquired from King Co. Rob, an audit manager on the Morris Mining engagement, and Gabriela, the audit senior, are trying to evaluate if the method of the fair value estimate it reasonable.
2. Auditors are required to consider evidence obtained and accumulated throughout the audit and make an overall evaluation as to whether substantial doubt exists with respect to the ability of the client
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?
an exit price) (IFRS13). Fair value is the market value of a firm’s assets and ignores any special benefits of the assets to the business resulting from competencies such as man management skills as well as any transaction costs (Hitz, 2007). Therefore a fair value measurement is market based rather than entity specific and it represents unbiased measurements that are consistent from period to period and across entities (Penman, S. H., 2007). This helps to reinforce consistency and comparability across various reporting entities. Fair Value measurements also have the property of objectivity as it is non-entity specific and reflects the market’s valuation as compared to entity specific measurements which are subject to managerial judgments (Whittington, 2010).