Overlook Video Stores Inc. (OVS) To: Ms. Alice Hartford, Partner From: CA, Audit Senior Re: Planning for the year end 2009 of OVS and requested control deficiency information Engagement Overview The purpose of this memo is to document the planning of the financial statement audit st engagement of our client Overlook Video Stores Inc. (OVS) for the year ended December 31 , 2009. OVS has been our client since its inception in 1998. This year’s audit will commence January, 2010, though certain procedures have already taken place to ensure our opinion can be given promptly, as requested by OVS’s bank. OVS is a privately held company, headquartered in Toronto and operating in the DVD rental and retail industry. OVS has over …show more content…
The RP Program, a customer loyalty reward initiative, has had very few participating customers taking advantage of its incentives for repeat business (only 92,000 RentPoints redeemed, representing $92,000 spent in OVS). The MBM program has had serious complications in its implementation specifically relating to website integrity and numerous crashes. Frustration over the program has caused some customers to cancel their memberships or be offered some compensation (eg. 2month free memberships). Overall BR Assessment: The highly competitive industry has decreased OVS’s market share thereby driving them to match competitor’s prohibitively low prices or venture into new markets and take measures to remain competitive. Management has no experience/expertise in this area and because these new initiatives have largely failed in this objective, we feel we must assess OVS’s BR as mediumhigh. → Factors Increasing Inherent Risk (IR) ∙ IR is increased by the unique store inventory accounting policies chosen by OVS and the resulting issues of obsolescence/valuation. This increases the RMM in the various Inventory accounts relating to valuation. ∙ IR is (potentially) increased by any binding covenant (that may be) associated with the tenyear loan OVS has been extended by their bank to help finance its rapid expansion. If such a covenant exists, there will likely be
- The successor should review previous audits in order to whether problems exist that may impact the successor’s acceptance of the audit. Also, the successor should review previous audits in order to have confidence in the current/past figures presented on the client’s financial
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• Audit documentation is used by the successor auditor when reviewing the predecessor auditor’s work. The successor auditor will review the previous year’s audit documentation to help gain a better understanding of the business, to identify any high risk areas that might affect acceptable level of risk, and to assist in planning the audit. Without this documentation it would be difficult for the successor auditor to achieve these goals.
Retail industry has gradually become the second largest industry, in terms of employment rates and establishments in the united states, it is the leading industry.it is estimated to be generating approximate of $5 billion annually in retail sales. For example, Wal-Mart is the leading retail shop in the world. It has an annual income of $312 billion and has a workforce of around 1.3 million in the united states and internationally it has more than 400,000 associates. It is an international corporation that was established in 1962. It controls a larger market of the retail industry, this is by their widespread chain of grocery stores, supermarkets and department stores.
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The objectives an audit team hopes to accomplish by preparing a proper set of audit workpapers is to facilitate the planning, performance, supervision of the engagement, and provide evidence supporting significant conclusions by the auditor in accordance with the PCAOB. A record of the evidence, samples tested and the conclusions are presented to supervisors and partners for review
Company provides subscription based consumer saving programs and rebate based employee participation programs, which are in high demand.
All responses to cancelled, pre-funding, and post-funding loan audit findings are analyzed monthly by the Quality Issue Research Committee and system/process changes are created or requested. The committee consists of the Operations Engineer, the Compliance Analyst, and the Quality Control Manager. The purpose is to analyze the QC findings to determine the root cause and create action plans, place IT tickets for system enhancements, and communicate defects related to the 3rd party doc provider, Accenture. These items are tracked on a report and followed-up on regularly to ensure tickets are closed and testing is done to confirm the system enhancements and/or actions plans resulted in the desired effect. Once responses have been analyzed and reviewed, Sr. Leadership is provided a summary of the findings and any action plans/system enhancement requests in a report at the Liberty Home Equity Solutions, Inc. Monthly Risk Compliance Meeting.
This executive memo is a summary and analysis of our audit findings for the client, a publicly traded company, and its financial practices. Please review this correspondence in accordance with your request. We look forward to meeting in person for further discussion and to make an informed recommendation about if this client’s policies are consistent with GAAP.
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7. The auditor may also wish to include the following in the letter: • Arrangements regarding the planning and performance of the audit. • Expectation of receiving from management written confirmation concerning representations made in connection with the audit. • Request for the client to confirm the terms of the engagement by acknowledging receipt of the engagement letter. • Description of any other letters or reports the auditor expects to issue to the client.
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