Assessment Description Required: Answer the questions below, in a maximum of 1,500 words. Submissions that exceed the word count by more than 10% will cease to be marked from the point at which that...

Assessment Description

Required:

Answer the questions below, in a maximum of 1,500 words.

Submissions that exceed the word count by more than 10% will cease to be marked from the point at which that limit is exceeded.

Note that marks are also allocated for professional presentation, grammar and spelling.
Please make sure you follow the guidelines noted in your subject outline especially those relating topresentation, late policy and academic integrity.

Assignment details: Written Report (20 marks)

PART A

You will be assigned with the audit of one of the three companies listed on the ASX:Woolworths Group, JB HI FI Limited and Harvey Norman Holdings Limitedfor the year ended 30 June 2018. Review the audited annual reports including financial statements presented to the shareholders for your respective company and answer the questions:

Woolworths Group:

https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/icms_docs/195396_annual-report-2018.pdf

JB HI FI Limited:

https://investors.jbhifi.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Annual-Report-2018-with-Chairmans-CEOs-Report.pdf

Harvey Norman Holdings Limited:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54803162e4b08e1b8a472201/t/5bad8412f4e1fcd2edb86 026/1538098250289/2018-Annual-Report.pdf

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   1) Conduct an analytical review on the financial statements of your respective company in the planning phase and identify areas of concern and how relevant accounts and assertions are impacted. Justify your answer. All calculations should be included as an appendix to the written report. (5 Marks)

   
   


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   2) You are now required to formulate the relevant audit procedures to respond to the areas of concern identified in Part (1) (5 Marks)

   
   

PART B

In relation to corporate governance research and justify your answer to the following questions:

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   1) Does your respective company have any process relating to corporate governance? Under which section of the annual report would you expect to find information on it? (2 Marks)

   
   


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   2) Does your respective company have an audit committee and does the audit committee have the correct composition? (4 Marks)

   
   


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   3) In your opinion, are audit committees of benefit to the auditor, the company, the auditing profession and/or society as a whole? Why or why not? (4 Marks)

   
   

   
   
   
   

   
   

   
   

   Assessment Description

   
   

   Required:

   
   

   Your lecturer will assign you one of the three companies listed above.This assignment is to be completedindividually. All questions must be attempted. The assignment must be submitted before the above due date to avoid any late penalties. Please make sure you follow the usual assignment presentation guidelines especially those relating to presentation of written work, late policy and academic integrity.

   
   

   Submission:

   
   

   The assignment will need to be submitted electronically–use the link under“Assessments” tosubmit the information.

   
   

   Instructions on the Assignment: Referencing:

   
   

   As you will be using a company’s Annual Report as the basis for answering many of the questionsasked in this assignment, you need to ensure that you acknowledge this in your assignment. In fact, any sources that you use need to be acknowledged in order to avoid plagiarism. Information on referencing can be found in theGuidelines for Referencing and Presentationat the Kaplan website using the following address: (https://elearning.kbs.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=128881).

   
   

   In‐Text Referencing and the Reference List:

   
   

   Sources of information must be citedbothin the body of the text (in‐text referencing) and the end of the assignment (reference list).Failure to do so will result in penalties.Remember that when referencing an Annual Report, it is a corporate document that does not have a particular author but it will still require referencing any time you use information from it. Any other documents or books or other references you use will also require referencing.

   
   

   Penalties Regarding Referencing:
   No in‐text referencing–deduct 2 marks

   
   

   Some in text referencing only–deduct 1 mark

   
   

   No reference list–deduct 2 marks

   
   

   Incomplete reference list–deduct 1 mark