HI6026 Audit, Assurance and Compliance

Assessment Task – Tutorial Questions
Unit Code: HI6026
Unit Name: Audit, Assurance and Compliance
Assignment: Tutorial Questions 1
Due: 11:30pm 15th May 2020
Weighting: 25%
Total Assignment Marks: 50 marks
Purpose: This assignment is designed to assess your level of knowledge of the key topics covered in
this unit
Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed:

Description: Each week students were provided with three tutorial questions of varying degrees of
difficulty. These tutorial questions are available in the Tutorial Folder for each week on Blackboard.
The Interactive Tutorials are designed to assist students with the process, skills and knowledge to
answer the provided tutorial questions. Your task is to answer a selection of tutorial questions for
weeks 1 to 5 inclusive and submit these answers in a single document.
The questions to be answered are:
Week 1
You are the audit manager of Overseas Explorer Ltd (OEL), which acquired the small proprietary
company Local Pty Ltd (Local) on 30 June 2018. The price of the acquisition was agreed at $5 million,
on the condition that OEL is satisfied with the financial records of Local. As Local is a small proprietary
company, it has not prepared statutory financial reports or undergone an audit since its incorporation
in 2016. However, Local has agreed to allow your firm, which is the auditor of OEL, to access its books
and records. The CEO of OEL, Wendy Champion, has requested that your firm provide assurance on
the following three items:

In order to clarify your responsibilities, you requested that OEL indicate the level of assurance that
they require for each item. Wendy replied that the financial report as at acquisition date is very
important, as are the transactions since negotiations commenced, but that she is willing to have less
work done on the previous year’s management accounts.
Required:
Indicate the type of engagement that will most likely be undertaken for each of the three tasks and
the level of assurance to be provided. Explain your selections. (10 marks)
Week 2
You have been the auditor of Data Ltd for two years. Your auditor’s report for Data for the year ended
30 June 2018 was unmodified, indicating that in your opinion the financial report gave a true and fair
view. In August 2018, Data obtained a large loan from Better Bank Ltd, to provide additional working
capital. Subsequently Data suffered severe trading difficulties and was placed into liquidation in late
December 2018, with insufficient funds to repay the loan to Better Bank.
Required:
Outline a defense for your audit firm to any legal action taken by Better Bank to recover its loss. (10
marks)
Week 3
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 2013.
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 the right to withdraw
all funding. The board has advised you that CGL’s quick asset ratio is currently at 0.9:1 due to industrial
action holding up the sale of goods imported from overseas. The board has asked you to ignore this
temporary breach of the loan covenant, explaining that CGL is a stable and financially sound company,
and that the ratio will return to a positive level on resolution of the industrial dispute. The board has
indicated that unnecessarily disclosing this within the audit report would force it to reconsider its plans
to use your audit firm for other engagements.
As a result of CGL’s current cash flow difficulties, the board has requested that Hall & Associate’s audit
fee for 2013 be paid in CGL shares. The board has indicated that the market value of the shares will
equate to the value of the audit fee charged by Hall & Associates.
The management of CGL is currently reviewing the structure of its audit committee to ensure that it
complies with the requirements of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations.
However, the board is confused by the reference in the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and
Recommendations to both independent directors and non-executive directors, as they thought that
they were the same thing. As a result, they have sought your advice concerning the structure of their
audit committee.
Required:
a) Identify and explain three separate key threats to Hall & Associates’ independence that may arise
under APES 110. (3 marks)
b) For each independence threat identified in a) above, describe the course of action Hall &
Associates needs to take to ensure compliance with APES 110. (7 marks)
Week 4
You are the audit senior responsible for the audit of Sampson Limited. You are currently planning the
audit for the year ended 31 December 20X7. During your initial planning meeting held with the
financial controller, he told you of the following changes in the company’s operations.
(i) Due to the financial controller’s workload, the company has employed a treasurer. The financial
controller is excited about the appointment because in the two months that the treasurer has
been with the company he has realised a small profit for the company through foreign-exchange
transactions in yen.
(ii) Sampson has planned to close an inefficient factory in country New South Wales before the end
of 20X7. It is expected that the redeployment and disposal of the factory’s assets will not be
completed until the end of the following year. However, the financial controller is confident that
he will be able to determine reasonably accurate closure provisions.
(iii) To help achieve the budgeted sales for the year, Sampson is about to introduce bonuses for its
sales staff. The bonuses will be an increasing percentage of the gross sales made, by each
salesperson, above certain monthly targets.
(iv) The company is using a new general ledger software package. The financial controller is impressed
with the new system, because management accounts are easily produced and allow detailed
comparisons with budgets and prior-period figures across product lines and geographical areas.
The conversion to the new system occurred with a minimum of fuss. As it is a popular computer
package, it required only minor modifications.
(v) As part of the conversion, the position of systems administrator was created. This position is
responsible for all systems maintenance, including data backups and modifications. These tasks
were the responsibility of the accountant.
Required:
For each of the scenarios above, explain how the components of audit risk (inherent, control or
detection risk) are affected. (10 marks)
Week 5
The following financial ratios have been calculated for Nova Ltd for the year ended 30 June 2008:

Required:
Provide four (4) possible explanations for the results for the various ratios for Solar Ltd and outline
their implications for the audit. (10 marks)
Submission Directions:
The assignment has to be submitted via Blackboard. Each student will be permitted one
submission to Blackboard only. Each student needs to ensure that the document submitted
is the correct one.
Academic Integrity
Academic honesty is highly valued at Holmes Institute. Students must always submit work
that represents their original words or ideas. If any words or ideas used in a class posting or
assignment submission do not represent the student’s original words or ideas, the student
must cite all relevant sources and make clear the extent to which such sources were used.
Written assignments that include material similar to course reading materials or other
sources should include a citation including source, author, and page number.
In addition, written assignments that are similar or identical to those of another student in
the class is also a violation of the Holmes Institute’s Academic Conduct and Integrity Policy.
The consequence for a violation of this policy can incur a range of penalties varying from a
50% penalty through to suspension of enrolment. The penalty would be dependent on the
extent of academic misconduct and the student’s history of academic misconduct issues.
All assessments will be automatically submitted to SafeAssign to assess their originality.
Further Information:
For further information and additional learning resources, students should refer to their Discussion
Board for the unit.

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