An effort is being made through this report to ensure that all the financial and non-financial information received in respect of the given company is objectively analysed. Through the results obtained by the analysis conducted, an effort will be made to determine the weaknesses that are prevalent in the internal control of the company. Subsequent to the identification of the weaknesses, an effort is made to determine the audit procedure to objectively identify the steps that will alleviate the risks of material misstatement in the financial statement of the company (William Jr, Glover & Prawitt, 2016).
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Audit steps to reduce risk |
Plantand equipment |
From the information that has been given for consideration, it is observed that there has been significant amount of obsolescence on the part of the company’s plant and equipment. The reason being that, the requirement of the industry has changed substantially over the period of last 18 months (Wang, Li & Li, 2015). The new demand is for computer-aided machinery. This substantial shift of requirement of the industry has affected the plant and machinery requirement of the company significantly. The company will have to replace the majority percentage of its stock with latest machinery. Failing to do so will cost the company its client and its future viability of operations. After going through the warehouse of the company, it is observed that the stock of plant and equipment as kept and manged by the company is lying idle. This shows that the equipment present in the stock of the company has lost their power or ability to generate any sort of revenue or profit for the company. The investment of the company on these assets has become useless. In addition to this, the depreciation of the machinery including the method used for recognising the same has to be reviewed by the company to ensure that the depreciation due to obsolescence is duel accounted for by the company. |
There is several audit risk that are involved in respect of the review of the company’s financial statements. Some of them include non-financial factors like the obsolescence of the equipment used by the company. The reduction in the growth of the market etc. Someof the key audit risks present in the project involve the concept of depreciation. The reason being that the policy adopted for recognising depreciation at the time of acquisition of the machinery might have changed over the period due to the change of the circumstances in the business environment of the company. Another significant aspect corresponding to this account includes the valuation of the impact of the circumstances on the recoverable amount of the property, plant and equipment. |
Some of the steps that can be taken up by the auditor to minimise the risks include physical verification of the assets. This will enable the auditor to determine the usabilityof the asset in the near future. Taking the advice of an expert for determining the correctamountof depreciation that must be charged byte company for the same. |
Machinery finance liabilities |
In the present case, the company has taken immense loan to finance the latest equipment. The machinery originally purchased was financed by way of loans too. This has led to immense finance liabilities in respect of the assets (Waldman & Jensen, 2016). The same has to be met by the company by utilising the revenue generation capability of the assets by the company. |
The audit risks that are involved in reviewing these include overlooking of the present revenue generation capability of the assets of the company. The auditor might also fail to objectively factor in the impact of the reduction in the market in which the company operates. This is because reduction of the market of the company will reduce its cash flow and thus affect the repayment of the finance liabilities the company has incurred in respect of the assets. |
There are several methods or steps that can be taken up by the auditor to minimise the risks this include: a) Going through obligation that the company has incurred in respect of the assets very objectively. The terms of repayment along with the period must be studied. b) Assessing the revenue generation capacity of the present assets of the company. c) Estimating the future revenues of the company while factoring in the |
Accounts receivables |
The account receivable so the company have been –paying late payments to the company. This has increased the days in receivablesof the company above the industry average. |
There is a huge risk that the amount shown by the company as receivables become will become bad debt. The reason being the substantial time taken up by the debtors. |
The auditor must ask for debtor aging sheet from the management that will contain the details of the debtors and the delay they have shown in repayment. |
Lease Income |
The company has been showing less lease income in the unaudited statements. There is also no relevant data available for the lease income in respect of the industry average. |
There is a substantial risk in respect of audit as there is no parameter against which the income can be measured.The auditor must take the suggestions from the experts of the field regarding the sufficiency of the lease income earned by the company. |
It is of utmost importance that the business risks faced by the company are properly discussed because their respective implication affects the business in a multitude of ways. The business risk is needed to be understood by the auditor in order to determine the areas of the company’s financial statements that are most likely to contain material misstatements (Stewart & Shamdasani, 2014). This will increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of the audit procedures applied by him.
Some of the business risks that are mentioned in the additional information are as follows:
The confirmation of the business risks identified in the additional information can be found in the ratio analysis because of the following reasons:
Some of the business risks that can be identified from the ratio analysis are as follows:
Control |
Risk Alleviated |
Test of Control |
Inventory control system: Under this system, the company can utilise the services of information technology to maintain a log boom that will automatically inform the company regarding the status of the inventory or the time period for which it has not been used (Chan & Vasarhelyi, 2018).
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The risk of non-factoring relevant non-financial information for the planning of the business will be alleviated. The company will be able to factor in the obsolescence of its inventory to determine the depreciation that must be provided for it. It will also inform the company regarding the possible future acquisitions to be made by the company (Collins, 2017). |
The company should enter into the system the details of the entire inventory present with it at present. This will ensure that the company reports the obsolescence of the same to the company. If it is reported, it is assured that the system is working properly (DeFond & Zhang, 2014). |
Receivables management softwares: Under this, the company can make us of software that contains the details of the entire debtors of the company. It will automatically inform the debtors when the payment will be due from them. Simultaneously the person concerned with the management of the receivables will be informed regarding the collection of the dues from the debtors on time (Alles, Kogan & Vasarhelyi, 2018). |
Risk of bad debt will be alleviated: If the system is implemented by the company, it will ensure that the company is bake to reduce its days in accounts receivables and it will substantially reduce the risk of bad debts. |
The present debtors are paying the company in a delayed time. Hence, immediate application of the system should inform the management regarding the debtors who are making defaults in respect of among the payments on time. |
Use of effective and efficient accounting softwares: Presently the gap between the audited and the unaudited results of the company is immense. This suggests that the personnel’sof the company are failing to make the records of the company properly according to the statutory guidelines. Hence, there is an immediate requirement for its correction. |
This will alleviate the risk of faulty accounting recording and treatment. This will improve the efficiency of the auditor too as he will be able to focus on key performance indicators of the company rather than getting diverted with small but numerous errors in the financial statements of the company. |
The accounting software must be equipped with all the latest amendments that have been brought about by the statute recently. |
Some of the weaknesses that the company experiences in the internal control of its contract payroll are as follows:
Conclusion
After conducting the detailed analysis of the various aspects of the company, it was found that there is substantial business risk present in the operations of the business. This includes the obsolescence of the equipment of the company and the shrinking market. In addition to this, it was seen that there were several weaknesses in the internal control of the company. Those can be alleviated by optimal utilisation of the softwares by the company.
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