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ACCG340: Auditing and Assurance Services
ACCG340: Auditing and Assurance Services
OF ACCOUNTING
AND CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE
Faculty of Business
and Economics
ACCG340
Auditing and Assurance Services
CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT
ACCG340 Case Study Assignment
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ACCG340 Case Study Assignment
You have the following information about the company’s operations for the year:
In order to harness the company’s engineering and manufacturing expertise and spare
capacity, Roblox’s management announced in July 2016 that they would start offering from
October 2016 comprehensive services to technological start‐up companies ranging from
concept design to prototype creation and manufacturing. The response to these new
services has been overwhelmingly positive, and Roblox has struggled to keep up with
demand. A number of successfully crowdfunded campaigns through KickStarter and
Indiegogo have awarded Roblox equipment manufacture contracts. A number of other
contracts are currently in the process of negotiations.
Roblox management have indicated their intention to obtain a bank loan in the new financial
year to expand their operations to meet increasing demand.
You are in the process of auditing Roblox’s purchases and trade payables and have obtained the
following information:
Materials are purchased from both local suppliers and overseas suppliers, notably in China
and Singapore.
Depending on the type of materials purchased, it is often delivered to a range of locations.
Roblox has manufacturing plants in NSW and VIC and several warehouses in both states.
Trade payables are all processed through the central accounts department in Sydney.
There has been some movement in the accounts department in the last year. The previous
accounts supervisor, who had been with the company for ten years, left in December 2016.
A new accounts supervisor was hired in February 2017 but she is not yet thoroughly familiar
with the company’s procedures.
While the company has some documentation on policy and procedures for purchasing and
payments, these are generally dated, and there is a tendency for staff to learn procedures
through their day‐to‐day work activities and by informal handovers when there is staff
movement.
Based on your preliminary discussions with Roblox staff, you have gathered the following
information on the company’s purchases and payments processes:
• When specific inventory is required or reorder quantities are reached, the warehouse staff
prepare a ‘Materials Requisition’ form outlining the type and quantity of raw materials or
parts required and send it to a purchasing officer. The purchasing officer then issues a
purchase order and sends this to the relevant supplier and copies to the accounts
department. If the purchase order exceeds $5,000, it requires approval by the financial
controller.
• When the goods are received, the warehouse counts the incoming stock and records the
total quantity received on the system, creating a goods received record. If there is a
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discrepancy between quantity ordered and the quantity received, it is a purchasing officer’s
responsibility to follow up with the supplier and inform the accounts department of the
outcome.
Roblox’s trade payables system allows for suppliers to be set up for trading terms (credit and
discount), payee details, general ledger account coding. It is the accounts supervisor’s
responsibility to add and modify supplier account details.
Payments are divided between inventory and non‐inventory creditors. When the payables
clerk receives an invoice, she determines whether it relates to an inventory creditor or not
and enters invoices into the trade payables system, including their due dates.
The payables clerk normally does a payment run each week. The trade payables system picks
up all the suppliers’ invoices that are at or past their due dates, totals the invoices from each
creditor and creates an electronic payment file for the total amount.
The payables clerk is responsible for matching details on each invoice to the relevant good
received note and purchase order prior to including the invoice in the payment run. Any
applicable discount is also automatically applied at this stage if the supplier has been set up
appropriately in the trade payables system.
Any payment to a single creditor exceeding $3,000 requires approval from the financial
controller, who checks the supporting documentation, prior to being included in the
payment run. The electronic payment file is then uploaded to the company’s online banking
system to be paid out.
The accounts supervisor is responsible for undertaking a reconciliation of the trade payables
and payments on a monthly basis.
The audit manager on the Roblox engagement is aware that you have studied the use of data
analytics in auditing during your time at university and has asked you to undertake data analytic
techniques in planning and undertaking the audit of Roblox purchases and trade payables.
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PART 1 (GROUP REPORT – 19.5 MARKS WORTH 5.42% OF THE TOTAL ASSESSMENT)
(a) Using the data you have obtained, provide an overview of Roblox’s purchases and trade
payables for the year under audit. You may wish to use the Stories functionality in Qlik in
presenting your response to this question. Your overview should be conducted at a high
level (e.g. not concerned with individual suppliers) and should not exceed three (3) pages.
[12 marks]
(b) Based on your work in (a) and the case information above, undertake a risk assessment for
Roblox’s purchases and trade payables, and
o Outline at least three (3) significant risks (including the key account affected for each
risk), and
o Identify the key assertion at risk [4.5 marks]
(c) For each of the risks identified in (b) above, provide a specific substantive test of detail and
discuss the audit evidence you would need to obtain to address the risk. [3 marks]
Your responses to (b) and (c) should be presented using the following format:
(c) Substantive test of
(b) Account (b) Assertion at
(b) Explanation of risk detail + audit
at risk risk
evidence
…..
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PART 2 (GROUP REPORT – 16.5 MARKS WORTH 4.58% OF THE TOTAL ASSESSMENT)
(d) Based on the case information provided only, suggest the appropriate audit approach and
the nature (tests of controls, substantive tests of details, substantive analytical procedures)
and extent (none, small, medium, extensive) of audit procedures to be undertaken in
auditing the occurrence assertion in relation to Roblox’s purchases. Justify the audit
approach you have suggested. [3.5 marks]
(e) Based on the case information provided only, outline three (3) internal controls in relation
to Roblox’s purchases and trade payables. [1.5 marks]
(f) For each of the controls identified in (e) above, outline how you would test the control.
[3 marks]
(g) Using the data provided, assess the effectiveness of two (2) of the controls identified in (e)
and outline your findings. Where applicable, outline limitations in the data and describe any
further evidence you would need to obtain in assessing the control. [6 marks]
(h) Based on your findings in (g) above, discuss whether your response to (d) would change.
[2.5 marks]
Your response to (d) should be presented using the following format:
Audit approach:
Procedure Extent
Tests of controls
Substantive analytical procedures
Substantive tests of details
Justification
Your responses to (e) and (f) should be presented using the following format:
(e) Control (f) Test of control
i.
ii.
iii.
Your response to (g) should be presented using the following format:
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Using knowledge developed from Roblox’s operations and risks from your group report in Parts 1
and 2 and your own independent further research and analysis, develop a dashboard/app that will
enable you to monitor at least three (3) specific identified risks in relation to Roblox’s purchases and
trade payables on an ongoing basis.
You should explicitly identify each element of the dashboard/app you have developed. For each
element included in the dashboard,
Explicitly identify the risk it is designed to monitor/respond to, and
Explain the rationale for its inclusion and design, including an explanation of the manner in
which it will be used to monitor the identified risk.
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[INSERT DASHBOARD HERE]
[Risk 1; Element 1 details/discussion]
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[Risk 2; Element 2 details/discussion]
[Risk 3; Element 3 details/discussion]
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