Literature Review
The slides will give us a glimpse of the relevant Auditing standards applicable in our approach:
a)ASA 200:
The Overall Objectives of an Independent Auditor and conduct of an audit in accordance with the Australian auditing standards
Quality control for an audit of financial report and other historical financial information
Audit Documentation
Consideration of laws and regulations in audit of a financial report
Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement through Understanding the Entity and Its Environment
Audit evidences
Tools used to analyse the financials of the company
a)DuPont analysis:
Analysis
1)DuPont analysis:
The companies ROE has reduced drastically to 14% in the year 2001. This was predominantly due to the ever decreasing trend in profit margin of the company.
2) Common size statement analysis:
The company’s EBITDA and EBIT has reduced after the year 2003. They recorded a minimum of 17% and 19% respectively.
it demonstrates that the company’s cash reserves with respect to sales has reduced over the years and the reserves and surplus of the company has become negative over the years (McKee, 2015).
3) Trend analysis:
a)Income statement analysis:
The rise in the operating revenue of the company is far less or overshadowed by the rise in the operating expenses. This has resulted in lower profitability.
b)Balance sheet analysis:
There has been increase in the cash balance of the company by cash infusion by way of share capital and increased profitability. This is accompanied by increase in the retained earnings of the company (Knight, 2015).
4) Beneish M Score Analysis:
The company has been scoring more than -2.22 since year 2003 and the highest being recorded in the year 2006. This implies that the company has been involved high amount of mal practices and manipulation of the data.
Summary of the findings
a)The company has not generated decent ROE for its shareholders.
b)The company is unable to increase its overall EBITDA and EBIT over the years as a percentage of revenue.
c)The company’s cash inflow as a percentage of revenue has declined over the years.
RECOMMENDATION
a)Adoption of fraudulent activities by the company must be stopped immediately.
b)In order to substantially increase the returns o the company it must focus on reducing the operating costs of the company.
c)The company must resort to measures which will increase its profitability to ensure reinstatement of the reserves and surplus positive balance.
d)The company should take the opportunity of increasing the return on the new capital being infused in it by the shareholders.
Reference
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´Cheng, C. & Flasher, R., (2017). Two Short Case Studies in Staff Auditor and Student Ethical Decision Making. Issues in Accounting Education.
´Clikeman, P.M. & Diaz, J., (2014). ABC Electronics: An Instructional Case Illustrating Auditors’ Use of Preliminary Analytical Procedures. Current Issues in Auditing, 8(1), pp.I1-I10.
´Kasasbeh, M.A.M., McCabe, C. & Payne, S.,( 2017). Action learning: an effective way to improve cancer?related pain management. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(21-22), pp.3430-3441.
´Knight, M., (2015). Producing Transformative Learning in Business and Professional Communication.
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´McKee, D., (2015). New external audit report standards are game changing. Governance Directions, 67(4), p.222.
´Olubunmi, A.G. & Tar, M., (2015). Impact of Psychological Well-Being on the Vocabulary Acquisition Level of Nigerian Adolescents Learning French Language in Rural Settings. Asian Journal Of Humanity, Art And Literature, 2(1), pp.24-28.
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