Reference no: EM131260965
Ando Company , a diversified manufacture, has six divisions that operate throughout the United States and Puerto Rico , Ando hs historically allowed its divisions to operate autonomously. Ando does not have an internal audit department and corporate intervention occurs only when planned results were not obtained. Ando has a policy of hiring competent people. Management is fairly conservative in terms ofm accounting priciples and practices, but employee compensation depends on in large part on performance.
JP Kumar is the general manager of the Appliance Division that produces a variety of appliances. Kumar has been able to impove profitability of the division each of the prior 5 years. much of the improvement came through cost cutting, including a substantial reduction in control activities over inventory. Recently a new competitor has entered the market and has offered substantial price discounts in an effort to grab market share. Kumar is concerned because if profitability is not maintained, his bonus will be reduced.
Kumar decided that the easiest way to make the Appliance Division appear more profitable was through mainpulating the inventory , which was the largest asset on the books. Kumar found that by increasing inventory by 4 percent, income could be increased by 8 percent. with the weakness in inventory control , he felt it would be easy to overstate inventory. employees count the goods using count sheets, and Kumar was able to add two fictitious sheets during the physical inventory. A significant amount of inventory was stored in racks that filled that the warehouse. becasue of their height and the difficulty of test-counting them, Kumar was able to cover an overstatement of inventory in the upper racks.
After the count was complete, Kumar added four additional count sheets that added $950,000, or 8.6 percent, to the stated inventory, Kumar notified that auditors of the "ommission" of the sheetsn and convinced them that they represented overlooked legitimate inventory.
The auditors traced the items on these additional sheets to purchase invoices to verify their existence andn approved then addtional of the $950,000 to the inventory. they did not notify management about the added sheets. in additonal, Kumar altered count sheets beforen sending them to the auditors bychanging unit designations (for example, " six motor mounts" became six "motors"), raisingn counts, and fictitious linen items to completed count sheets. these other fictitious changes added an additional $375,000 to the inflated inventory. None of them was detected by the auditors.
Required:
a. what audit procedures did auditors apparently not follow that should have detected Kumar's fraudluent increase of inventory?
b. what implication would there be to an auditor of failure to detect material fraud as described here?
c. what responsibility did the auditors have to discuss their concerns with the entity's committee?
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