Case
Care For Kids Inc.
You are the senior manager or audit engagement partner on Care For Kids Inc., a notfor
profit organization that has a December yearend.
While performing yearend substantive procedures, the engagement team identified an
error in the entity's yearend adjusting entries. Care For Kids Inc. had inadvertently not.
recorded an unrealized gain of $ million in one of its many investment portfolios. The
investments total approximately $ million. Through inquiry of client management, the
engagement team learned that the accounting department had not reviewed the broker's
statement for this particular portfolio. The portfolio, which consisted of traded securities
had increased in market value by $ million. Materiality for the audit was $ million.
As part of the audit, you must assess the operating effectiveness of controls related to the
misstatement under audit standards established by the AICPA.
Required:
What effect would the materiality of this oversight have on your
assessment of this control weakness? Be specific to this case described
above. One paragraph should be sufficient to answer this question.
Would you assess this control weakness, described above, as material?
Please answer yes or no Please explain your reasoning in just one
paragraph.
Applicable Professional Pronouncements:
AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards No
AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards No