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The following trial balance relates to Sandown at 30 September 2009:The following notes are relevant:(i) Sandown’s revenue includes $16 million for goods sold to Pending on 1 October 2008. The terms of the sale are that Sandown will incur ongoing service and support costs of $1·2 million per annum for three years after the sale. Sandown normally makes a gross profit of 40% on such servicing and support work. Ignore the time value of money.(ii) Administrative expenses include an equity dividend of 4·8 cents per share paid during the year.(iii) The 5% convertible loan note was issued for proceeds of $20 million on 1 October 2007. It has an effective interest rate of 8% due to the value of its conversion option.(iv) During the year Sandown sold an available-for-sale investment for $11 million. At the date of sale it had acarrying amount of $8·8 million and had originally cost $7 million. Sandown has recorded the disposal of theinvestment. The remaining available-for-sale investments (the $26·5 million in the trial balance) have a fair value of $29 million at 30 September 2009. The other reserve in the trial balance represents the net increase in the value of the available-for-sale investments as at 1 October 2008. Ignore deferred tax on these transactions.(v) The balance on current tax represents the under/over provision of the tax liability for the year ended 30 September 2008. The directors have estimated the provision for income tax for the year ended 30 September 2009 at $16·2 million. At 30 September 2009 the carrying amounts of Sandown’s net assets were $13 million in excess of their tax base. The income tax rate of Sandown is 30%.(vi) Non-current assets:The freehold property has a land element of $13 million. The building element is being depreciated on astraight-line basis.Plant and equipment is depreciated at 40% per annum using the reducing balance method.Sandown’s brand in the trial balance relates to a product line that received bad publicity during the year which led to falling sales revenues. An impairment review was conducted on 1 April 2009 which concluded that, based on estimated future sales, the brand had a value in use of $12 million and a remaining life of only three years.However, on the same date as the impairment review, Sandown received an offer to purchase the brand for$15 million. Prior to the impairment review, it was being depreciated using the straight-line method over a10-year life.No depreciation/amortisation has yet been charged on any non-current asset for the year ended 30 September2009. Depreciation, amortisation and impairment charges are all charged to cost of sales.Required:(a) Prepare the statement of comprehensive income for Sandown for the year ended 30 September 2009.(13 marks)(b) Prepare the statement of financial position of Sandown as at 30 September 2009. (12 marks)Notes to the financial statements are not required.A statement of changes in equity is not required.
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On 1 April 2009 Pandar purchased 80% of the equity shares in Salva. The acquisition was through a share exchange of three shares in Pandar for every five shares in Salva. The market prices of Pandar’s and Salva’s shares at 1 April2009 were $6 per share and $3.20 respectively.On the same date Pandar acquired 40% of the equity shares in Ambra paying $2 per share.The summarised income statements for the three companies for the year ended 30 September 2009 are:The following information is relevant:(i) The fair values of the net assets of Salva at the date of acquisition were equal to their carrying amounts with the exception of an item of plant which had a carrying amount of $12 million and a fair value of $17 million. This plant had a remaining life of five years (straight-line depreciation) at the date of acquisition of Salva. All depreciation is charged to cost of sales.In addition Salva owns the registration of a popular internet domain name. The registration, which had anegligible cost, has a five year remaining life (at the date of acquisition); however, it is renewable indefinitely at a nominal cost. At the date of acquisition the domain name was valued by a specialist company at $20 million.The fair values of the plant and the domain name have not been reflected in Salva’s financial statements.No fair value adjustments were required on the acquisition of the investment in Ambra.(ii) Immediately after its acquisition of Salva, Pandar invested $50 million in an 8% loan note from Salva. All interest accruing to 30 September 2009 had been accounted for by both companies. Salva also has other loans in issue at 30 September 2009.(iii) Pandar has credited the whole of the dividend it received from Salva to investment income.(iv) After the acquisition, Pandar sold goods to Salva for $15 million on which Pandar made a gross profit of 20%. Salva had one third of these goods still in its inventory at 30 September 2009. There are no intra-group current account balances at 30 September 2009.(v) The non-controlling interest in Salva is to be valued at its (full) fair value at the date of acquisition. For thispurpose Salva’s share price at that date can be taken to be indicative of the fair value of the shareholding of the non-controlling interest.(vi) The goodwill of Salva has not suffered any impairment; however, due to its losses, the value of Pandar’sinvestment in Ambra has been impaired by $3 million at 30 September 2009.(vii) All items in the above income statements are deemed to accrue evenly over the year unless otherwise indicated.Required:(a) (i) Calculate the goodwill arising on the acquisition of Salva at 1 April 2009; (6 marks)(ii) Calculate the carrying amount of the investment in Ambra to be included within the consolidatedstatement of financial position as at 30 September 2009. (3 marks)(b) Prepare the consolidated income statement for the Pandar Group for the year ended 30 September 2009.(16 marks)
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JJG Co is planning to raise $15 million of new finance for a major expansion of existing business and is considering a rights issue, a placing or an issue of bonds. The corporate objectives of JJG Co, as stated in its Annual Report, are to maximise the wealth of its shareholders and to achieve continuous growth in earnings per share. Recent financial information on JJG Co is as follows:Required:(a) Evaluate the financial performance of JJG Co, and analyse and discuss the extent to which the company has achieved its stated corporate objectives of:(i) maximising the wealth of its shareholders;(ii) achieving continuous growth in earnings per share.Note: up to 7 marks are available for financial analysis.(12 marks)(b) If the new finance is raised via a rights issue at $7·50 per share and the major expansion of business hasnot yet begun, calculate and comment on the effect of the rights issue on:(i) the share price of JJG Co;(ii) the earnings per share of the company; and(iii) the debt/equity ratio. (6 marks)(c) Analyse and discuss the relative merits of a rights issue, a placing and an issue of bonds as ways of raising the finance for the expansion. (7 marks)
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The following financial information relates to HGR Co:Statement of financial position at the current date (extracts)The finance director has completed a review of accounts receivable management and has proposed staff training and operating procedure improvements, which he believes will reduce accounts receivable days to the average sector value of 53 days. This reduction would take six months to achieve from the current date, with an equal reduction in each month. He has also proposed changes to inventory management methods, which he hopes will reduce inventory days by two days per month each month over a three-month period from the current date. He does not expect any change in the current level of accounts payable.HGR Co has an overdraft limit of $4,000,000. Overdraft interest is payable at an annual rate of 6·17% per year, with payments being made each month based on the opening balance at the start of that month. Credit sales for the year to the current date were $49,275,000 and cost of sales was $37,230,000. These levels of credit sales and cost of sales are expected to be maintained in the coming year. Assume that there are 365 working days in each year.Required:(a) Discuss the working capital financing strategy of HGR Co. (7 marks)(b) For HGR Co, calculate:(i) the bank balance in three months’ time if no action is taken; and(ii) the bank balance in three months’ time if the finance director’s proposals are implemented.Comment on the forecast cash flow position of HGR Co and recommend a suitable course of action.(10 marks)(c) Discuss how risks arising from granting credit to foreign customers can be managed and reduced.(8 marks)
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PV Co is evaluating an investment proposal to manufacture Product W33, which has performed well in test marketing trials conducted recently by the company’s research and development division. The following information relating to this investment proposal has now been prepared.Initial investment $2 millionSelling price (current price terms) $20 per unitExpected selling price inflation 3% per yearVariable operating costs (current price terms) $8 per unitFixed operating costs (current price terms) $170,000 per yearExpected operating cost inflation 4% per yearThe research and development division has prepared the following demand forecast as a result of its test marketing trials. The forecast reflects expected technological change and its effect on the anticipated life-cycle of Product W33.It is expected that all units of Product W33 produced will be sold, in line with the company’s policy of keeping no inventory of finished goods. No terminal value or machinery scrap value is expected at the end of four years, when production of Product W33 is planned to end. For investment appraisal purposes, PV Co uses a nominal (money) discount rate of 10% per year and a target return on capital employed of 30% per year. Ignore taxation.Required:(a) Identify and explain the key stages in the capital investment decision-making process, and the role ofinvestment appraisal in this process. (7 marks)(b) Calculate the following values for the investment proposal:(i) net present value;(ii) internal rate of return;(iii) return on capital employed (accounting rate of return) based on average investment; and(iv) discounted payback period. (13 marks)(c) Discuss your findings in each section of (b) above and advise whether the investment proposal is financially acceptable. (5 marks)
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KFP Co, a company listed on a major stock market, is looking at its cost of capital as it prepares to make a bid to buy a rival unlisted company, NGN. Both companies are in the same business sector. Financial information on KFP Co and NGN is as follows:NGN has a cost of equity of 12% per year and has maintained a dividend payout ratio of 45% for several years. The current earnings per share of the company is 80c per share and its earnings have grown at an average rate of 4·5% per year in recent years.The ex div share price of KFP Co is $4·20 per share and it has an equity beta of 1·2. The 7% bonds of the company are trading on an ex interest basis at $94·74 per $100 bond. The price/earnings ratio of KFP Co is eight times.The directors of KFP Co believe a cash offer for the shares of NGN would have the best chance of success. It has been suggested that a cash offer could be financed by debt.Required:(a) Calculate the weighted average cost of capital of KFP Co on a market value weighted basis. (10 marks)(b) Calculate the total value of the target company, NGN, using the following valuation methods:(i) Price/earnings ratio method, using the price/earnings ratio of KFP Co; and(ii) Dividend growth model. (6 marks)(c) Discuss the relationship between capital structure and weighted average cost of capital, and comment onthe suggestion that debt could be used to finance a cash offer for NGN. (9 marks)
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One of your audit clients is Tye Co a company providing petrol, aviation fuel and similar oil based products to the government of the country it is based in. Although the company is not listed on any stock exchange, it does follow best practice regarding corporate governance regulations. The audit work for this year is complete, apart from the matter referred to below.As part of Tye Co’s service contract with the government, it is required to hold an emergency inventory reserve of 6,000 barrels of aviation fuel. The inventory is to be used if the supply of aviation fuel is interrupted due to unforeseen events such as natural disaster or terrorist activity.This fuel has in the past been valued at its cost price of $15 a barrel. The current value of aviation fuel is $120 a barrel. Although the audit work is complete, as noted above, the directors of Tye Co have now decided to show the ‘real’ value of this closing inventory in the financial statements by valuing closing inventory of fuel at market value, which does not comply with relevant accounting standards. The draft financial statements of Tye Co currently show a profit of approximately $500,000 with net assets of $170 million.Required:(a) List the audit procedures and actions that you should now take in respect of the above matter. (6 marks)(b) For the purposes of this section assume from part (a) that the directors have agreed to value inventory at$15/barrel.Having investigated the matter in part (a) above, the directors present you with an amended set of financialstatements showing the emergency reserve stated not at 6,000 barrels, but reported as 60,000 barrels. The final financial statements now show a profit following the inclusion of another 54,000 barrels of oil in inventory. When queried about the change from 6,000 to 60,000 barrels of inventory, the finance director stated that this change was made to meet expected amendments to emergency reserve requirements to be published in about six months time. The inventory will be purchased this year, and no liability will be shown in the financial statements for this future purchase. The finance director also pointed out that part of Tye Co’s contract with the government requires Tye Co to disclose an annual profit and that a review of bank loans is due in three months. Finally the finance director stated that if your audit firm qualifies the financial statements in respect of the increase in inventory, they will not be recommended for re-appointment at the annual general meeting. The finance director refuses to amend the financial statements to remove this ‘fictitious’ inventory.Required:(i) State the external auditor’s responsibilities regarding the detection of fraud; (4 marks)(ii) Discuss to which groups the auditors of Tye Co could report the ‘fictitious’ aviation fuel inventory;(6 marks)(iii) Discuss the safeguards that the auditors of Tye Co can use in an attempt to overcome the intimidationthreat from the directors of Tye Co. (4 marks)
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(a) Contrast the role of internal and external auditors. (8 marks)(b) Conoy Co designs and manufactures luxury motor vehicles. The company employs 2,500 staff and consistently makes a net profit of between 10% and 15% of sales. Conoy Co is not listed; its shares are held by 15 individuals, most of them from the same family. The maximum shareholding is 15% of the share capital.The executive directors are drawn mainly from the shareholders. There are no non-executive directors because the company legislation in Conoy Co’s jurisdiction does not require any. The executive directors are very successful in running Conoy Co, partly from their training in production and management techniques, and partly from their ‘hands-on’ approach providing motivation to employees.The board are considering a significant expansion of the company. However, the company’s bankers areconcerned with the standard of financial reporting as the financial director (FD) has recently left Conoy Co. The board are delaying provision of additional financial information until a new FD is appointed.Conoy Co does have an internal audit department, although the chief internal auditor frequently comments that the board of Conoy Co do not understand his reports or provide sufficient support for his department or the internal control systems within Conoy Co. The board of Conoy Co concur with this view. Anders Co, the external auditors have also expressed concern in this area and the fact that the internal audit department focuses work on control systems, not financial reporting. Anders Co are appointed by and report to the board of Conoy Co.The board of Conoy Co are considering a proposal from the chief internal auditor to establish an audit committee.The committee would consist of one executive director, the chief internal auditor as well as three new appointees.One appointee would have a non-executive seat on the board of directors.Required:Discuss the benefits to Conoy Co of forming an audit committee. (12 marks)
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Following a competitive tender, your audit firm Cal Co has just gained a new audit client Tirrol Co. You are the manager in charge of planning the audit work. Tirrol Co’s year end is 30 June 2009 with a scheduled date to complete the audit of 15 August 2009. The date now is 3 June 2009.Tirrol Co provides repair services to motor vehicles from 25 different locations. All inventory, sales and purchasing systems are computerised, with each location maintaining its own computer system. The software in each location isthe same because the programs were written specifically for Tirrol Co by a reputable software house. Data from each location is amalgamated on a monthly basis at Tirrol Co’s head office to produce management and financial accounts.You are currently planning your audit approach for Tirrol Co. One option being considered is to re-write Cal Co’s audit software to interrogate the computerised inventory systems in each location of Tirrol Co (except for head office)as part of inventory valuation testing. However, you have also been informed that any computer testing will have to be on a live basis and you are aware that July is a major holiday period for your audit firm.Required:(a) (i) Explain the benefits of using audit software in the audit of Tirrol Co; (4 marks)(ii) Explain the problems that may be encountered in the audit of Tirrol Co and for each problem, explainhow that problem could be overcome. (10 marks)(b) Following a discussion with the management at Tirrol Co you now understand that the internal audit department are prepared to assist with the statutory audit. Specifically, the chief internal auditor is prepared to provide you with documentation on the computerised inventory systems at Tirrol Co. The documentation provides details of the software and shows diagrammatically how transactions are processed through the inventory system. This documentation can be used to significantly decrease the time needed to understand the computer systems and enable audit software to be written for this year’s audit.Required:Explain how you will evaluate the computer systems documentation produced by the internal auditdepartment in order to place reliance on it during your audit. (6 marks)
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(a) List and explain FOUR methods of selecting a sample of items to test from a population in accordance with ISA 530 (Redrafted) Audit Sampling and Other Means of Testing. (4 marks)(b) List and explain FOUR assertions from ISA 500 Audit Evidence that relate to the recording of classes oftransactions. (4 marks)(c) In terms of audit reports, explain the term ‘modified’. (2 marks)
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Background informationB-Star is a theme park based on a popular series of children’s books. Customers pay a fixed fee to enter the park,where they can participate in a variety of activities such as riding roller-coasters, playing on slides and purchasing themed souvenirs from gift shops.The park is open all year and has been in operation for the last seven years. It is located in a country which has very little rainfall – the park is open-air so poor weather such as rain results in a significant fall in the number of customers for that day (normally by 50%). During the last seven years there have been on average 30 days each year with rain.B-Star is now very successful; customer numbers are increasing at approximately 15% each year.Ticket salesCustomers purchase tickets to enter the theme park from ticket offices located outside the park. Tickets are only valid on the day of purchase. Adults and children are charged the same price for admission to the park. Tickets are preprinted and stored in each ticket office.Tickets are purchased using either cash or credit cards.Each ticket has a number comprising of two elements – two digits relating to the ticket office followed by six digits to identify the ticket. The last six digits are in ascending sequential order.Cash sales1. All ticket sales are recorded on a computer showing the amount of each sale and the number of tickets issued.This information is transferred electronically to the accounts office.2. Cash is collected regularly from each ticket office by two security guards. The cash is then counted by twoaccounts clerks and banked on a daily basis.3. The total cash from each ticket office is agreed to the sales information that has been transferred from each office.4. Total cash received is then recorded in the cash book, and then the general ledger.Credit card sales1. Payments by credit cards are authorised online as the customers purchase their tickets.2. Computers in each ticket office record the sales information which is transferred electronically to the accounts office.3. Credit card sales are recorded for each credit card company in a receivables ledger.4. When payment is received from the credit card companies, the accounts clerks agree the total sales values to the amounts received from the credit card companies, less the commission payable to those companies. The receivables ledger is updated with the payments received.You are now commencing the planning of the annual audit of B-Star. The date is 3 June 2009 and B-Star’s year end is 30 June 2009.Required:(a) List and explain the purpose of the main sections of an audit strategy document and for each section, provide an example relevant to B-Star. (8 marks)(b) (i) For the cash sales system of B-Star, identify the risks that could affect the assertion of completeness of sales and cash receipts; (4 marks)(ii) Discuss the extent to which tests of controls and substantive procedures could be used to confirm theassertion of completeness of income in B-Star. (6 marks)(c) (i) List the substantive analytical procedures that may be used to give assurance on the total income fromticket sales for one day in B-Star;(ii) List the substantive analytical procedures that may be used to give assurance on the total income fromticket sales in B-Star for the year. (8 marks)(d) List the audit procedures you should perform. on the credit card receivables balance. (4 marks)
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Glove Co makes high quality, hand-made gloves which it sells for an average of $180 per pair. The standard cost of labour for each pair is $42 and the standard labour time for each pair is three hours. In the last quarter, Glove Co had budgeted production of 12,000 pairs, although actual production was 12,600 pairs in order to meet demand.37,000 hours were used to complete the work and there was no idle time. The total labour cost for the quarter was $531,930.At the beginning of the last quarter, the design of the gloves was changed slightly. The new design required workers to sew the company’s logo on to the back of every glove made and the estimated time to do this was 15 minutes for each pair. However, no-one told the accountant responsible for updating standard costs that the standard time per pair of gloves needed to be changed. Similarly, although all workers were given a 2% pay rise at the beginning of the last quarter, the accountant was not told about this either. Consequently, the standard was not updated to reflect these changes.When overtime is required, workers are paid 25% more than their usual hourly rate.Required:(a) Calculate the total labour rate and total labour efficiency variances for the last quarter. (2 marks)(b) Analyse the above total variances into component parts for planning and operational variances in as much detail as the information allows. (6 marks)(c) Assess the performance of the production manager for the last quarter. (7 marks)
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A manufacturing company, Man Co, has two divisions: Division L and Division M. Both divisions make a single standardised product. Division L makes component L, which is supplied to both Division M and external customers.Division M makes product M using one unit of component L and other materials. It then sells the completedproduct M to external customers. To date, Division M has always bought component L from Division L.The following information is available:Division L charges the same price for component L to both Division M and external customers. However, it does not incur the selling and distribution costs when transferring internally.Division M has just been approached by a new supplier who has offered to supply it with component L for $37 per unit. Prior to this offer, the cheapest price which Division M could have bought component L for from outside the group was $42 per unit.It is head office policy to let the divisions operate autonomously without interference at all.Required:(a) Calculate the incremental profit/(loss) per component for the group if Division M accepts the new supplier’soffer and recommend how many components Division L should sell to Division M if group profits are to bemaximised. (3 marks)(b) Using the quantities calculated in (a) and the current transfer price, calculate the total annual profits of each division and the group as a whole. (6 marks)(c) Discuss the problems which will arise if the transfer price remains unchanged and advise the divisions on a suitable alternative transfer price for component L. (6 marks)
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Shoe Co, a shoe manufacturer, has developed a new product called the ‘Smart Shoe’ for children, which has a built-in tracking device. The shoes are expected to have a life cycle of two years, at which point Shoe Co hopes to introduce a new type of Smart Shoe with even more advanced technology. Shoe Co plans to use life cycle costing to work out the total production cost of the Smart Shoe and the total estimated profit for the two-year period.Shoe Co has spent $5·6m developing the Smart Shoe. The time spent on this development meant that the company missed out on the opportunity of earning an estimated $800,000 contribution from the sale of another product.The company has applied for and been granted a ten-year patent for the technology, although it must be renewed each year at a cost of $200,000. The costs of the patent application were $500,000, which included $20,000 for the salary costs of Shoe Co’s lawyer, who is a permanent employee of the company and was responsible for preparing the application.The following information is also available for the next two years:Shoe Co is still negotiating with marketing companies with regard to its advertising campaign, so is uncertain as to what the total marketing costs will be each year. However, the following information is available as regards the probabilities of the range of costs which are likely to be incurred:Required:Applying the principles of life cycle costing, calculate the total expected profit for Shoe Co for the two-year period.(10 marks)
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Swim Co offers training courses to athletes and has prepared the following breakeven chart:Required:(a) State the breakeven sales revenue for Swim Co and estimate, to the nearest $10,000, the company’s profit if 500 athletes attend a training course. (2 marks)(b) Using the chart above, explain the cost and revenue structure of the company. (8 marks)