Homework: SEC 10-K Report
Students select a SEC 10K Fortune 100 manufacturing company for use in the case study. You will use this same company for your Power Point presentation. You need to obtain the Professor's approval of the company. Each student must select a separate company so all students have different companies; no duplicates.
This was to have been completed. You will also use this company to answer the questions in the weekly Discussions.
The purpose of the paper is write an audit plan. Note that this paper is to be written from the perspective of an auditor and not from the perspective of an analyst that is performing an analysis of a company's financial statements. The perspectives are quite different.
Details of the Homework
You are the new auditor for the SEC 10 company that you selected and was approved by the Professor. Another auditor performed the audit last year.
As the new auditor, you are to develop a comprehensive audit plan. The auditing standards describe the components of what is to be included in an audit plan.
You are to describe accounting and auditing issues in the audit that you will face as the new auditor. You are to identify the risks that the company faces as well and how these risks will affect the audit and how you will mitigate the risks. For example, if you select a company that has overseas manufacturing plants which produce inventory-what approach will you take to observe the inventory that is in the U.S. and overseas? What will you include in your audit plan? What are the risks related to inventory and the year end inventory value reflected on the balance sheet?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.