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Coca Cola Audit Risk

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The Coca- Cola Company
Planning Memorandum
Industry and Regulatory Risk Factors:
Obesity/Health Concerns: There is a growing concern among consumers and public health officials about the public health consequences of obesity. This includes a large movement towards health conscious eating and drinking, specifically avoiding sugar-sweetened beverages. This could affect demand for some beverages and in turn affect profitability.
Water scarcity: Water is the main ingredient of all products. It is a limited resource and also facing unprecedented challenges from overexploitation, pollution, poor management and climate change in many parts of the world. As water scarcity and demand both increase, the system may incur increased production …show more content…

The previous auditors’ did issue an internal control on financial reporting review and they found that Coca Cola maintained effective internal control over financial reporting for the year 2009. They found this by reviewing all accounting processes for accuracy and detection of errors. The one concern that can be found in the financial statements with regards to internal control is the change in Days sales in accounts receivable. Management needs to review the credit sales terms and make some changes to bring this number back down and closer to 30 days.
Applying Audit Risk Model/Audit Procedures:
Top five areas identified as high risk:
Revenue: Revenue is a high-risk account due to the fact that management will be pressured to overstate the account and look better to shareholders. Revenue recognition rules are complicated to understand and may be overlooked by accounting clerks when entering revenue.
Proposed Audit Procedures: To review the revenue account, especially all transactions occurring at the end of December (to be sure that revenue wasn’t entered in 2009 that shouldn’t be recognized until 2010). All revenue over a material cutoff amount should be confirmed through a letter to customer.
Current Assets: The current asset segment is high risk due to the substantial change in the amount from 2008 to 2009. Specifically, these

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