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You are a senior manager for the highly successful regional CPA firm of Fine, Dee, Evah, Dense, LLP (Fine). Since its inception nearly 30 years ago, Fine's audit practice has exclusively consisted of auditing private and not-for-profit organizations. Recently, the partners have been considering an opportunity to audit a publically-traded company for the company your team has selected.
The primary reason Fine has not heretofore ventured into auditing publically-traded companies is because of the potential risk and legal liability associated with auditing public companies. However, Fine has been a bit stagnant, business-wise, for the past few years, and some of the older and more risk-adverse partners are beginning to retire. Consequently, the lure of the often-lucrative and prestigious opportunity to audit a public company has become too hard to resist, so the partners have decided to pursue the chance to audit this company.
On a beautiful early-September morning you are called into the senior partner's office and told you and your team have been selected to lead the first-ever effort to audit a publically-traded company for Fine. You are honored, but also know auditing a public company is a bit more tricky and complicated than auditing private and not-for-profit organizations.
Fortunately, the senior partner had considerable experience early in his career with another firm in auditing public companies and told you he would be with you all the way. Relieved, you asked him what he wanted you to do. He tossed you the most recent Form 10-K of the company you selected and gave you the following assignments:
Review and discuss the Form 10-K for the Boeing company, please follow the link:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292715000011/a201412dec3110k.htm#sB95823B8FF1E534DB19FA6D2270B5C71
Create a report that will have 4 sections.
Section 1, Initial Risk Assessment.
Hint: The business and risk information is usually found in the first part of the Form 10-K. However, for the risks, do not simply restate what is in the Form 10-K. Think like a senior manager at a CPA firm - what accounts (Cash, A/R, Revenue, Inventory, etc.) might be the most potentially risky and why? For example, an airline might not have the same inventory considerations found with a retail outlet like Wal-Mart.
In 700-to 1,050-words:
Describe the business briefly.
Assess any risks you may encounter in auditing this company.
General Audit Concerns
The requisite background you and your team will need to adequately audit this company.
Time it will take to adequately audit this client.
General Business Concerns
Has the company you're auditing recently increased or decreased their operations due to mergers or sales of parts of the business?
Are they a conglomerate with lots of disparate kinds of goods and services, or are they a simple straight-forward type of business operating in a relatively small location?
Are operating supplies (such as jet fuel or specialty plastics) in short supply or subject to wild pricing swings on the open market?
What about overseas operations - are they operating in dangerous parts of the world?
How robust or intense is the competition in this particular industry?
Has their top management recently been replaced and if so, why?
Is seasonality a factor for this company? How does that affect revenue and other operations?
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