You are the auditor in-charge of the annual audit of Muscat Insurance Company (or MIC) for the year ended December 31, 2019. MIC is the leading insurance company in Oman and enjoys a good reputation in the business community. As this is the first time your audit firm will be auditing the company, you communicated with the previous auditor as part of understanding the business. Your communication with previous auditors revealed something that you didn’t expect to discover. The previous auditors revealed that the company has an unpaid tax amounting to OMR 3 million. Though it was disclosed in the books as tax in arrears, there is no indication that the company has attempted to pay it. You have also found out in your initial review that MIC has recently purchased a new software that will enable the customers to access their insurance accounts through the internet. Because the directors are eager to use the software to attract more customers, the software has been rolled out already for use by the customers even though it was not tested by the company’s information technology (IT) department yet for security purposes. As surprise discoveries seem not to stop, you have also heard from your friends, who were customers of MIC, that there were insurance claims from customers which have not been paid by the company. Some of the claims were as old as five years ago. The management expects to receive a report on the weaknesses on the design and implementation of internal controls and some business consultative advice on top of the usual audit of financial statements. Required: Discuss matters that you would consider in developing the audit strategy for Muscat Insurance Company.

Following is the current balance sheet for a local partnership of doctors:

The following questions represent independent situations:

1. E contributes $105,000 in cash to the business to receive a 20 percent interest in the partnership. Goodwill is to be recorded. Profits and losses have previously been split according to the following percentages: A, 30 percent; B, 10 percent; C, 40 percent; and D, 20 percent. After E makes this investment, what are the individual capital balances?

2. E contributes $50,000 in cash to the business to receive a 20 percent interest in the partnership. Goodwill is to be recorded. The four original partners share all profits and losses equally. After E makes this investment, what are the individual capital balances?

3. E contributes $70,000 in cash to the business to receive a 20 percent interest in the partnership. No goodwill or other asset revaluation is to be recorded. Profits and losses have previously been split according to the following percentages: A, 10 percent; B, 30 percent; C, 20 percent; and D, 40 percent. After E makes this investment, what are the individual capital balances?

4. C retires from the partnership and, as per the original partnership agreement, is to receive cash equal to 112 percent of her final capital balance. No goodwill or other asset revaluation is to be recognized. All partners share profits and losses equally. After the withdrawal, what are the individual capital balances of the remaining partners?

EXPRESS COMFY Case Study: Express Comfy Co. operates an airline business since few years ago. The company’s year-end is 31 December of each year. You are the Engagement partner in charge and you have started planning the audit. You are setting a meeting with the client to identify any relevant audit risks. From your meeting you came across the following: In order to expand their flight network, Express Comfy Co will need to acquire more aeroplanes; they have placed orders for another six planes at an estimated total cost of QR70 millions and the company’s CEO has requested from the procurement director to handle this matter. Accordingly, the Procurement Director assigned Mr. Hamad ALKaaby to handle this transaction. Due to his prolonged experience and the trust the company is having in Mr Hamad, the Procurement Director has delegated all power and authority to Mr Hamad with no need to return back to him during the processing of this transaction. Mr. Hamad is now the one communicating with the vendors (suppliers), preparing the invoices, following up on things, and he is the one to check the fleet of planes when they arrive to ensure they meet the quality standards set by the company. In addition, the company has spent an estimated QR50 millions on refurbishing (restoring) their existing planes. In order to fund the expansion, the Finance Department has applied for a loan of QR80 millions. It has yet to hear from the bank as to whether it will lend them the money. Notably, the CFO of the company has assigned four accountants from the finance department to handle the processing of this loan request. Four accountants have been assigned due to the fact that Ms. Reem Almansoury, the Chief Internal Auditor of the company, is currently on vacation and one of these four accountants has been asked to cover for her during her absence. The company receives bookings from travel agents as well as from individuals directly via their website. The travel agents are given a 90-day credit period to pay Express Comfy Co, however, due to difficult trading conditions a number of the receivables (travel agents) are struggling to pay. Furthermore, and due to the complexity of the online transactions, Engineer Ahmed El-Sabbahy has been assigned to handle these transactions, who in turn is responsible for all the online transactions with no other control procedures to protect the company from any sort of errors and/or fraud. Worth noting too, the website was launched few months ago and has consistently encountered difficulties with customer complaints that tickets have been booked and paid for online but Express Comfy Co has no documented record of them and hence has sold the seat to another customer. For this reason, the company is currently in communication with an external expert IT company to look into this issue. Based on the previous key facts concerning Express Comfy, you are required to submit a report that covers ALL the following points:

1. Identify the pre-conditions that should have been met before accepting Express Comfy as a client. You are also required to state the contents of the engagement letter highlighting the role and responsibilities of each party involved.

2. Outline the members of the audit team who are expected to audit the records of East Comfy highlighting the role played by each of these members

. 3. Outline the steps involved in the audit cycle as well as the audit strategy and relate these to East Comfy. ) 4. Outline the main procedures involved in setting the audit plan(s) for Easy Comfy.

Briefly explain the US economy.

Eclectic Ergonomics Company manufactures designer furniture. Eclectic Ergonomics uses a job order cost system. Balances on April 1 from the materials ledger are as follows:

The materials purchased during April are summarized from the receiving reports as follows:

Materials were requisitioned to individual jobs as follows:

The glue is not a significant cost, so it is treated as indirect materials (factory overhead).

Required:

Consider a firm in financial distress (i.e. its assets are worth much less than the face amount of its outstanding debt, which is due in two years).

For each scenario below, please briefly explain who stands to gain and who stands to lose among the firm’s owners? Focus on the incremental gain or loss in value for each party that each scenario may entail.

1. The company manages to scrape together cash and distributes it as dividends

2. The lenders accept to extend the maturity of their loans by one year

3. The company invests in a negative-NPV project using the remaining cash

4. The company raises money by issuing preferred stock and invests it in a new project with a

   positive NPV

5. The company invests in a new project with a zero-NPV and raises debt to finance it; the new

   debt has exactly the same level of seniority and security as the existing debt

6. The company ceases operations, sells its fixed assets for an amount that is much less than the

   face amount of debt and invests the proceeds in treasuries

Maria has built a cafeteria called "Princess of Gourmai and More" since 1995. Amira runs her project that provides coffee from the most delicious coffee in the city. It serves around 800 cups of coffee a day, along with special soups, ready-made Italian sandwiches, and a large selection of delicious cheese cakes. Maria noticed that despite the store's popularity, she always maintains nearly the same revenue. Maria has contacted your staff, who is affiliated with a consulting firm, in her city to advise the way the cafeteria works.

Maria said: “Many community college students visit us next to the cafeteria, as well as many retired clients who live next door and a large group of employees who work in the companies deployed next to the cafeteria. Every day our customers have only 30 minutes to eat their meal and have coffee so we must be fast. When preparing their meals, as it is the worker at the cafeteria who receives the customer’s order and enters the order on the cash box device, as well as receives the money and deposits it in the box and provides the customer with his meal.

The Royal Director Maria added: "We have one cash box that all workers, including myself, are handling to respond to customer requests. This cash box is not of the new type developed but it can track the different categories of meals and coffee, however the worker who receives the order must press every time." He receives the order on the button that pertains to the specific category requested by the customer (coffee, soup, sandwich, cakes) There is an internal tape in the box device that records and maintains a record of all transactions. The customer receives a receipt only when requested to deliver. The number of cafe workers is four along with the manager Maria Two workers work N in the morning from seven o'clock to three o'clock in the evening and two others from three o'clock to eleven at night time. "

Maria also said: “I open the cash box twice a day at the end of the morning period at three o'clock in the evening and at the end of the evening period at eleven o'clock at night. When I open the fund I help workers before they leave to open the cash box and calculate the amount of money and compare it to the total recorded on the tape stored Inside the fund When there is a difference between the money withdrawn from the fund and the total recorded on the tape, I recalculate the money again. "

The owner Maria told your group that since the beginning of the opening of the store, she did not face cases of theft, but rather discovers that the differences that occurred previously between the cash available in the fund and the total amount of money recorded on the tape are usually recording for an employee a different amount than the amount inadvertently received. For example, he records $ 18 instead of the $ 1.8 received amount.

Maria sends the tape and receipts manually to the accountant to make adjustments and also sends him all purchase invoices from the materials she needs to make coffee, sandwiches, soups and cakes. Note that Maria uses the economic quantity method in demand to maintain the stock of materials, given that the daily sales recorded by the cafeteria are close.

Read the case and identify weaknesses, based on the information provided by Maria and the cafeteria manager.

write the necessary recommendations for each weakness

Mohanned decided to start a water theme park in Barka , Oman . He prepared a business plan and submitted it to Bank Muscat to take loan of OMR 5000000 . He submitted documents of his 5 villas to get the loan from bank . After the bank issued loan Mohanned went to Oman chamber of commerce and industry and requested his new theme park named as Ross Island to be legally registered . After checking the documents the ministry registered the theme park as Ross Island LLC . Mohanned had partners who invested in this new business who were shareholders . The tourists who came to his place and the citizens who came to the Ross Island kept increasing . The entry tickets pricing was affordable many visitors came to his park . So Mohanned started Ross Island also in Salalah .

1 ) Is Mohanned an entrepreneur or Intrapreneur ? Define entrepreneur and intrapreneur .

2 ) Mohanned requested OMR 5000000 loan from Bank Muscat . What is this request called in Business Plan ? Define it .

3 ) Write the management team of Ross Island in your own words in two sentences .

4 ) Write the executive summary for Ross Island theme park in your own words in two sentences .

5 ) Write the company description of Ross Island in your own words in two sentences .

6 ) What are the advantages and disadvantages of starting this theme park ?

7 ) Mohanned decides to start one more Ross Island in Salalah . Is this called Market expansion ? Explain it .

8 ) He registered Ross Island as LLC . Define LLC .

9 ) Mohanned submitted documents of his 5 villas . What are these documents called ?

10 ) Do you think that this business will be successful ?