未知题型 You are a senior manager in the audit department of Raven & Co. You are reviewing two situations which have arisen in respect of audit clients, which were recently discussed at the monthly audit managers’ meeting:Grouse Co is a significant audit client which develops software packages. Its managing director, Max Partridge, has contacted one of your firm’s partners regarding a potential business opportunity. The proposal is that Grouse Co and Raven & Co could jointly develop accounting and tax calculation software, and that revenue from sales of the software would be equally split between the two firms. Max thinks that Raven & Co’s audit clients would be a good customer base for the product.Plover Co is a private hospital which provides elective medical services, such as laser eye surgery to improve eyesight. The audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2012 is currently taking place. The audit senior overheard one of the surgeons who performs laser surgery saying to his colleague that he is hoping to finish his medical qualification soon, and that he was glad that Plover Co did not check his references before employing him. While completing the subsequent events audit procedures, the audit senior found a letter from a patient’s solicitor claiming compensation from Plover Co in relation to alleged medical negligence resulting in injury to the patient.Required:Identify and discuss the ethical, commercial and other professional issues raised, and recommend any actions that should be taken in respect of:(a) Grouse Co; and (8 marks)(b) Plover Co. (7 marks)
未知题型 振华集团2007~2014年每年年底存人银行100万元,存款利率为5%,2015年初可累计约()万元。
未知题型 Truffle Co makes high quality, hand-made chocolate truffles which it sells to a local retailer. All chocolates are made in batches of 16, to fit the standard boxes supplied by the retailer. The standard cost of labour for each batch is $6·00 and the standard labour time for each batch is half an hour. In November, Truffle Co had budgeted production of 24,000 batches; actual production was only 20,500 batches. 12,000 labour hours were used to complete the work and there was no idle time. All workers were paid for their actual hours worked. The actual total labour cost for November was $136,800. The production manager at Truffle Co has no input into the budgeting process.At the end of October, the managing director decided to hold a meeting and offer staff the choice of either accepting a 5% pay cut or facing a certain number of redundancies. All staff subsequently agreed to accept the 5% pay cut with immediate effect.At the same time, the retailer requested that the truffles be made slightly softer. This change was implemented immediately and made the chocolates more difficult to shape. When recipe changes such as these are made, it takes time before the workers become used to working with the new ingredient mix, making the process 20% slower for at least the first month of the new operation.The standard costing system is only updated once a year in June and no changes are ever made to the system outside of this.Required:(a) Calculate the total labour rate and total labour efficiency variances for November, based on the standard cost provided above. (4 marks)(b) Analyse the total labour rate and total labour efficiency variances into component parts for planning and operational variances in as much detail as the information allows. (8 marks)(c) Assess the performance of the production manager for the month of November. (8 marks)