ACCA考试F2考试试题练习及答案（2）

2 Your audit client, Prescott Co, is a national hotel group with substantial cash resources. Its accounting functions are

well managed and the group accounting policies are rigorously applied. The company’s financial year end is

31 December.

Prescott has been seeking to acquire a construction company for some time in order to bring in-house the building

and refurbishment of hotels and related leisure facilities (e.g. swimming pools, squash courts and restaurants).

Prescott’s management has recently identified Robson Construction Co as a potential target and has urgently requested

that you undertake a limited due diligence review lasting two days next week.

Further to their preliminary talks with Robson’s management, Prescott has provided you with the following brief on

Robson Construction Co:

The chief executive, managing director and finance director are all family members and major shareholders. The

company name has an established reputation for quality constructions.

Due to a recession in the building trade the company has been operating at its overdraft limit for the last 18

months and has been close to breaching debt covenants on several occasions.

Robson’s accounting policies are generally less prudent than those of Prescott (e.g. assets are depreciated over

longer estimated useful lives).

Contract revenue is recognised on the percentage of completion method, measured by reference to costs incurred

to date. Provisions are made for loss-making contracts.

The company’s management team includes a qualified and experienced quantity surveyor. His main

responsibilities include:

(1) supervising quarterly physical counts at major construction sites;

(2) comparing costs to date against quarterly rolling budgets; and

(3) determining profits and losses by contract at each financial year end.

Although much of the labour is provided under subcontracts all construction work is supervised by full-time site

managers.

In August 2005, Robson received a claim that a site on which it built a housing development in 2002 was not

properly drained and is now subsiding. Residents are demanding rectification and claiming damages. Robson

has referred the matter to its lawyers and denied all liability, as the site preparation was subcontracted to Sarwar

Services Co. No provisions have been made in respect of the claims, nor has any disclosure been made.

The auditor’s report on Robson’s financial statements for the year to 30 June 2005 was signed, without

modification, in March 2006.

Required:

(a) Identify and explain the specific matters to be clarified in the terms of engagement for this due diligence

review of Robson Construction Co. (6 marks)

(ii) Explain the accounting treatment under IAS39 of the loan to Bromwich in the financial statements of

Ambush for the year ended 30 November 2005. (4 marks)

2 The draft financial statements of Choctaw, a limited liability company, for the year ended 31 December 2004 showed

a profit of $86,400. The trial balance did not balance, and a suspense account with a credit balance of $3,310 was

included in the balance sheet.

In subsequent checking the following errors were found:

(a) Depreciation of motor vehicles at 25 per cent was calculated for the year ended 31 December 2004 on the

reducing balance basis, and should have been calculated on the straight-line basis at 25 per cent.

Relevant figures:

Cost of motor vehicles $120,000, net book value at 1 January 2004, $88,000

(b) Rent received from subletting part of the office accommodation $1,200 had been put into the petty cash box.

No receivable balance had been recognised when the rent fell due and no entries had been made in the petty

cash book or elsewhere for it. The petty cash float in the trial balance is the amount according to the records,

which is $1,200 less than the actual balance in the box.

(c) Bad debts totalling $8,400 are to be written off.

(d) The opening accrual on the motor repairs account of $3,400, representing repair bills due but not paid at

31 December 2003, had not been brought down at 1 January 2004.

(e) The cash discount totals for December 2004 had not been posted to the discount accounts in the nominal ledger.

The figures were:

$

Discount allowed 380

Discount received 290

After the necessary entries, the suspense account balanced.

Required:

Prepare journal entries, with narratives, to correct the errors found, and prepare a statement showing the

necessary adjustments to the profit.

(10 marks)