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Smackey Dog Foods, Inc

Smackey Dog Foods, Inc is a new client to Keller CPAs firm. The nature of business for this company is to produce natural dog food. Keller has never had any experience in the audit on this industry before. Smackey Dog Foods started in a family kitchen, experienced explosive growth, and have had some troubles handling the accounting side of the business. The auditor identifies that main purpose of Smackey Dog Food to obtain an audit report is to fulfill the bank requirement of additional loan for $150,000 on top of the company’s current existing bank loan for $150,000. Under audit planning, the auditor decides whether to accept a new client or continue serving an existing one. This determination is …show more content…

There is no direct recording of sales receipts, shipping labels, or matching return to accounts receivable. These circumstances allow opportunities where employees take home returned items. Another issue that I would address is lack of control procedures and guidelines in handling and recording accounts receivable. This is much more important now since a major client who represents 31% of total sales is experiencing financial difficulty. I will discuss more detail on this issue in next section.
Issue on abilities of Collection and Receivable management procedure According to the accounts receivable report, a major client of Smackey is Chicago’s retail chain Pub Stores. They alone represent 31% of overall sales and revenue of Smackey Dog Foods. Pub Stores is a primary customer who usually makes payment within 30 days. Extract from accounts receivable aging, current receivable under 30 days have only 38% of the total amount. If Pub store contributes 31% to this data, that means other good customers who makes their payments on time to Smackey beside Pub store only accounts for 7%. As I mentioned above, Pub Stores is now experiencing a major lawsuit from an animal rights group. The legal fees are eating into their cash reserves and they are facing some store closures. Since Pub Store is a major customer of Smackey, if Pub Stores has to close down their stores it is not a good sign for Smackey. This incident indicates that the ability of

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