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- February 26, 2020 at 4:11 pm #563233
Sep/Dec 2019
Are these answers acceptable?
Question 1
(b)
1. A list of potential buyer to confirm the sale is probable after year end.
2. A copy of board minute to confirm the plan to dispose has been approved.
3. Information about Usami&Co to assess its independence and competence to carry out due diligence.(c) (ii)
Discuss with management the reason of recognise $20million within operating profit to assess the rationale behind this decision.Question 2
(a) A copy lease agreement to review for annual lease payment to confirm it is correctly used to calculate lease liability.Question 3
(b)
1. Interview suspects about suspicion transaction to assess how much inventory is occurred.
2. Review the online website that sell the inventory stolen to identify which item has been stolen.
3. Agree sale orders to sales invoices to identify how much missing.Is it for questions about fair value, net realisable value, our audit procedures can use independent audit expert and audit evidence can be independent expert report?
Thank you
February 27, 2020 at 9:14 am #563287I am sorry but we (OpenTuition) do no have the resources to offer a marking service.
I strongly recommend that you invest time in the “article” linked to the sticky/star post at the top of this forum “Read the mind of an AAA marker – ESSENTIAL READING”.
The takeaways from this should be:
– Published marking schemes are very comprehensive and cover the vast majority of answer points
– If your answers points are “close”/along the “right lines” – they will earn credit (only if it is too vague would you get nothing)
– If your answer point is not even touched on in the model answer, chances are it is simply wrong or it is not relevant – in either case it is not “acceptable” (in so far as it earns nothing).I cannot mark what you have written but I will use two of your points to illustrate:
“A list of potential buyer to confirm the sale is probable after year end” – I would say NO. For one thing, the condition is “highly probable”. You might get 1/2 a mark for wanting to know who the potential buyers are – but it would need to be expanded (e.g. to know stage of negotiations) to get full mark (see answer point starting “Information regarding the potential acquirers …”)
(c)(ii) I think NO – whatever their rationale, it’s wrong, so not a “principal” audit procedure. I would reserve “discussion” of “rationale” to discussion of business/commercial rationale of a transaction (as a procedure in gaining an understanding) – not its accounting treatment (when you already know/understand it is wrong).
(See also 2. in this post https://opentuition.com/topic/ryder-group-cd/)Re your last question “Is it for questions about fair value, net realisable value, our audit procedures can use independent audit expert and audit evidence can be independent expert report?” I think you have to be very careful referring to expert(s) – that an amount is a fair value does not automatically mean “get an expert”. Nor should you suppose that just because a client’s business seems a little “specialised” that it’s beyond the competence of the auditor without the help of an expert. (I was an auditor for two years in a small country which had no experts like actuaries – we just had to get on and audit without!) You should however recognise when you would expert a client to have an expert – e.g. a construction company will employ/hire the services of a quantity surveyor. In this case some reference to an expert is likely to be relevant – but read the requirements carefully and never “knowledge dump”.
February 27, 2020 at 10:55 am #563295Alright, thank you very much!
February 27, 2020 at 11:04 am #563296You are welcome!
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