Auditing and Assurance Report for Cheetah Ltd - Risk Analysis

This report focuses on an auditing and assurance analysis for Cheetah Ltd, a retail company. It begins with an introduction to auditing's role in decision-making and summarizes key risks such as interest rate, operational, credit, and market risks. The report then compares the implications of floating vs. long-term debt and explores the financial decisions related to purchasing or leasing vehicles. The report further examines the corporate governance structure of Cheetah Ltd, detailing the rules, regulations, and processes that guide its operations. Finally, the report concludes by emphasizing the importance of auditing in preventing fraud and errors, and highlights the potential risks facing the company. The report references several academic sources to support its findings.

AUDITING
AND
ASSURANCE

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Summary of key risk
 Flotation vs longer term borrowing
 Purchase vs lease to expend fleet of vehicles
 Governance structure
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Auditing plays an important role in decision making of any
business.
 Auditing is an examination of books of accounts undertaken with
a view to establish whether the company is abiding by all
accounting principles and ethical working.
 The current presentation is based on Cheetah Ltd a retail industry
selling a range of sports and fitness products in Europe.

SUMMARY OF THE KEY RISKS
Risk Mitigating
Interest rate risk Use of hedging strategies
Operating risk More investment in technology
Credit risk Appoint of factoring agency for recovery of
bad debt
Inventory risk Implementation of advance inventory
management system
Market risk Continuous monitoring and research
Economic risk Emphasis on forecasting technique

FLOTATION VS LONG TERM
BORROWINGS
Flotation interest rates Long term debt
Flotation interest rate is a rate of interest
that fluctuate with the current market
trends and indexes.
It is a debt in which interest rate remains
same throughout loan repayment period.
However, it can also have called as a
variable interest rate because it varies from
the duration of debt obligations and it
involved high risk.
It does not vary either change in lending
rates of bank or change in repo and reverse
repo rate.

PURCHASE VS LEASE TO EXPAND FLEET
OF VEHICLE
Purchase Lease
The term purchase defined as the
acquiring of assets by paying full price in
lump sum or instalment.
leasing is an agreement between lessor
and lessee to use of asset by paying lease
rental for a fixed period of time
Buyer has right to transfer or sell the
assets
On the other side but lessee has no right
to sell the assets to anyone

GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE OF
CHEETAH IS INTENDING TO LIST
 Corporate governance is the rules, regulation and processes or laws which are used by
companies for operation, control and regulation.
 If In accordance with company's constitution
 To acts with in powers
 To promote the success of the company
 Company must meet out its security requirement of listing
 To avoid conflicts between the parties
 Not take benefits from third parties
 To exercise skills, diligence and reasonable care

CONCLUSION
 The above presentation concludes that auditing play crucial role in decision
making as it is a systematic examination of books of accounts of an entity.
 The main objective of auditing is detection and prevention of fraud and errors.
 By evaluation of current presentation it was analyzed that Cheetah Ltd may face
interest rate and operating and other risk in near future.

REFERNCES
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pp.38-43.
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auditing in small and medium-sized companies: an exploratory study on factors for
significantly improving quality performance. Total Quality Management & Business
Excellence. pp.1-21.
 Drogalas, G. and Siopi, S., 2017. Risk management and internal audit: Evidence from
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 Knechel, W. R., Thomas, E. and Driskill, M., 2020. Understanding financial auditing
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