INTRODUTION
The accounting firm of Barnes and Fischer, LLP, is a medium-sized, nation CPA firm. The partnership, formed in 1954, now has over 6,000 professionals on the payroll. The firm mainly provides auditing and tax services, but it has recently had success building the information systems consluting side of the business for non-audit clients and for audit clients that are not publicly traded.
It is mid-January 2012, and you are a newly promoted audit manager in an office of Barnes and Fischer, located in the Pacific Northwest. You have been a senior auditor for the past three of your five years with Barnes and Fischer. You first assignment as audit manager is to assist an audit partner on a client acceptance decision. The partner explains to you that the prospective client, Ocean Manufacturing, is a medium-sized manufacturer of small home appliances. The partner recently met the company’s president at a local chamber of commerce meeting. The president indicated that, after some difficult negotiations, the company has decided to terminate its relationship with its current auditor. The president explained that the main reason for the switch is to build a relationship with a more nationally established CPA firm because the company plans to make an initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock within the next few years. Ocean’s annual financial statements have been audited each of the past 12 years in order to comply with debt covenants and to receive favorable interest rates on the company’s existing line of credit. Because the company’s December 31 fiscal year-end has already passed, time is of the essence for the company to contract with a new auditor to get the audit under way.
The partner, Jane Hunter, is intrigued wit the idea of having a client in the home appliance industry, especially one with the favorable market position and growth potential of Ocean Manufactuting. Although there are several manufacturers of small home appliances in the area, in your office has never had a client in the industry. Most of your office’s current audit clients are in the healthcare services industry. Thus, the partner feels the engagement presents an excellent opportunity for Barnes and Fischer to enter a new market. On the hand, knowing the rishs involved, the partner wants to make sure the client accecptance decision is carefully considered.
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