Part A
Read the Notes to the Financial Statements (FS) for your SEC 10-K company. These "notes" are displayed after the financial statements.
- Inventory comments: comment on inventory issues using the concepts of materiality and geographic location.
- Inventory and Sales: comment on issues related to diversity in customer base and issues of internal control.
- Accounts Receivable and Sales: comment on issues related to the selling and distribution system of your SEC 10-K company and issues of fraud as well as internal control.
- Challenges and opportunities you see as you relate our auditing topics to your company. Details are high level in the SEC 10-K but organizations rely on Auditing concepts, as they prepare for the audits and as part of their internal control process.
Part B
The financial statements for your company are usually posted in Item 8 of the SEC 10-K document. The management discussion and analysis section is earlier in the report.
- The management of risk and uncertainty is often included in the MD&A section comments. What do you learn of interest here?
- Divisions and Product Lines may be discussed in the MD&A section. What audit and internal control issues may arise in these areas as you consider our chapters for the week.
- Management often explains higher or lower than expected in their comments. Discuss the profitability and other comments in the MD&A section as they relate to our chapters thus on audit strategy, risk, internal control, materiality, and management.