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Extech Ltd's sales revenue budget for 2018 is $350,000
Extech Ltd's sales revenue budget for 2018 is $350,000. Extech Ltd manufactures tables and its production costs as a percentage of sales revenue are:
Raw materials 25%
Direct Labour 25%
Overheads 10%
Raw materials, which are added at the start of production, are carried in inventory for ten days and finished goods are held in inventory before sale for twenty days.
Work in progress is held at levels where products are assumed to be 50% complete in terms of labor and overheads.
The production cycle is five days and production takes place evenly through the year.
Extech Ltd receives 60 days credit from suppliers and grants 30 days credit to its customers.
Overheads are incurred evenly throughout the year.
(a) Determine Extech Ltd’s total working capital requirement
(b) Extech Ltd are owed $10,000 by a supplier who has just been declared bankrupt. The owner of Extech wants to sue the supplier’s auditors for the $10,000 as she had reviewed their audited accounts and understood that the business would continue for the foreseeable future. Discuss, with reference to the “performance gap” and the “expectations gap” what an auditor does and does not do, and whether the owner of Extech is correct in their understanding.
Expert Solution
| (a) Working Capital = Current Assets - Current Liabilities | ||||
| % of Sales | Value | |||
| Sales | $350,000 | |||
| Raw Materials | 25% | $87,500 | ||
| Direct Labor | 25% | $87,500 | ||
| Overheads | 10% | $35,000 | ||
| Raw Material Inventory is quantity for ten days of production | ||||
| Given that production is even throughout the year | ||||
| Computation of Raw Materials Inventory | ||||
| Total value of Raw Materials consumed during the year | $87,500 | |||
| Value of Raw materials consumed per day | $240 | |||
| Value of Raw materials consumed in ten days | $2,400 | |||
| Raw materials inventory levels | $2,400 | |||
| Computation of Finished Goods Inventory | ||||
| Total value of Finished Goods sold during the year | $350,000 | |||
| Value of Finished goods sold per day | $959 | |||
| Value of Finished goods sold for twenty days | $19,180 | |||
| Finished goods inventory levels | $19,180 | |||
| Computation of Work-in-progress Inventory | ||||
| Since,production cycle is for five days, Work in progress includes | ||||
| a. Five days of raw materials inventory | ||||
| b. 50% of five days of direct labor cost | ||||
| c. 50% of five days of overheads cost | ||||
| Daily Cost | Days | % of Completion | Value | |
| Inventory | $240 | 5 | 100% | $1,200 |
| Direct Labor | $240 | 5 | 50% | $600 |
| Overhead | $96 | 5 | 50% | $240 |
| Work-in-progress inventory levels | $2,040 | |||
| Computation of Accounts Receivables | ||||
| Credit period allowed to customer(in days) | 30 | |||
| Average daily sales | $959 | |||
| Sales value for 30 days | $28,770 | |||
| Average Accounts Receivables | $28,770 | |||
| Computation of Accounts Payable | ||||
| Credit period allowed by suppliers(in days) | 60 | |||
| Average daily purchases | $246 | |||
| Purchase value for 60 days | $14,760 | |||
| Average Creditors | $14,760 | |||
| Note - Purchase = Raw Materials Consumed + Raw Material Inventory | ||||
| = $ 87,500 + $ 2,400 | ||||
| = $ 89,900 | ||||
| Average daily purchase = $ 89,900/365 | ||||
| = $ 246 | ||||
| Current Assets | ||||
| Raw Material Inventory | $2,400 | |||
| Work-in-progress Inventory | $2,040 | |||
| Finished Goods Inventory | $19,180 | |||
| Accounts Receivable | $28,770 | |||
| Total Current Assets | $52,390 | |||
| Current Liabilities | ||||
| Accounts Payable | $14,760 | |||
| Total Current Liabilities | $14,760 | |||
| Working Capital = Current Assets - Current Liabilities | ||||
| = $ 52,390 - $ 14,760 | ||||
| Working capital requirement = $ 37,630 | ||||
| (b) | |||||
| Expectation gap is the difference between the public perception of an auditor's | |||||
| role and responsibilities regarding audits of financial statements and what the | |||||
| auditor's legal responsibilities actually are. | |||||
| Expectation gap may be categorized into | |||||
| (i) Performance gap which signifies the difference between the level of work an | |||||
| auditor is required to do by the auditing standards and what public believes they | |||||
| ought to do. | |||||
| (ii) Liability gap which signifies the mis-perception regarding the legal liability of the | |||||
| auditor. | |||||
| The auditing process has certain limitations.The auditor has to express his | |||||
| opinion on the financial statements of the auditee on basis of the information he | |||||
| gathers on the basis of the data made available to him.This data is collected in | |||||
| form of samples ans these samples are a subset of transactions during the | |||||
| financial year.The auditor does not tests the whole records and it is possible that | |||||
| the sample tested does not truly represent the total financial data for the year. | |||||
| Also,the evidences available to the auditor may not always be conclusive.The | |||||
| auditor relies on his judgement if the evidence is persuasive. | |||||
| It is for these reasons that the auditor expresses his opinions on the financial | |||||
| statements and does not certify it. | |||||
| Hence,the auditor would not be legally liable if the supplier is declared bankrupt | |||||
| where he had expressed his opinion that the business of the supplier would | |||||
| continue for forseable future,if he was satisfied with the evidence made available | |||||
| to him and performed his audit tests with due diligence.This is irrespective of the | |||||
| opinion of Extech Limited that it was the duty of the auditor to predict that the | |||||
| said supplier would become bankrupt because the audit engagement does not | |||||
| create any liability on the auditor to certify that the financial statements show the | |||||
| exact and precise conditions of the company. |
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