Analytical Procedures Are Evaluations of Financial Information Made by a Study

question 59

Essay

Analytical procedures are evaluations of financial information made by a study of plausible relationships among financial and nonfinancial data.Understanding and evaluating such relationships are essential to the audit process.
The following financial statements were prepared by ABC Manufacturing Co.for the year ended December 31,2013.Also presented are various financial statement ratios for Holiday as calculated from the prior year's financial statements.Sales represent net credit sales.The total assets and the receivables and inventory balances at December 31,2013,were the same as at December 31,2012.
Required: Items 1 through 9 below represent financial ratios that the auditor calculated during the prior year's audit.For each ratio,calculate the current year's ratio from the financial statements presented above.

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Definitions:

Outsourcing

“Contracting out” or transferring to another country the labor that a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform; typically done for financial reasons.

Commodity Chains

The network of production and distribution processes through which a product passes until it reaches the consumer, often spanning multiple countries.

Sweatshop

A workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including below-standard wages, long hours, and poor working conditions that may pose health or safety hazards.

Race To The Bottom

A socio-economic phenomenon where countries or companies compete by undercutting each other in standards, such as labor rights and environmental regulations, to attract business.