HA3032 Auditing Group Report: Angel Seafood Holdings Audit Program

This report presents a comprehensive audit analysis of Angel Seafood Holdings Pty Ltd. It begins with an introduction to the company, its operations, and its position in the oyster farming industry. The report identifies key business risks, including operational, competition, legal, environmental, and economic risks, along with financial risks such as capital investments and valuation of biological assets. An audit risk model is then developed, outlining inherent, control, and detection risks, and their impact on the overall audit risk. The report also includes analytical procedures, such as ratio analysis, to assess the company's financial performance. The selection of material account balances and financial assertions is discussed, followed by a detailed outline of audit steps and sampling techniques. The report concludes with a summary of findings and recommendations. This assignment was completed as part of the HA3032 Auditing course at Holmes Institute.

Running Head: Auditing
AUDITING – HA3032
Audit of Angel Seafood Holdings Pty Ltd
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Executive Summary:
For the assignment, we have been allocated the Audit process of Angel Seafood Holdings Pty
Ltd. In this assignment there shall be recognition of the industries nature that the company
belongs to. The areas related to the misstatements of material have been analyzed that can be
found in the financial statements and reports of the company.

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Table of Contents
Introduction – Angel Seafood Holdings Pty Ltd.:..........................................................................................................3
Identification of Key Business Risks:.............................................................................................................................4
Audit Risk Model............................................................................................................................................................6
Analytical Procedures:....................................................................................................................................................9
Material Account Balances...........................................................................................................................................11
Selection of Top 10 Material Accounts and Financial Assertions:...............................................................................12
Audit Steps: 14
Audit Sampling 16
Conclusion 18
References 19

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Introduction – Angel Seafood Holdings Pty Ltd.:
Angel Seafood Holdings Pty Ltd was initially a family operated business in South Australia. Over the
years, has been developed from the oyster-growing traditional business to a pioneering and organically
certified finest Coffin Bay Oysters producer. Incorporated on September 26, 2016 as a proprietary
company, Angel Seafood turned into an unlisted company on 21 April 2017.
Angel Seafood Holdings (ASH) currently operates out of Haslam& Cowell, Coffin Bay and Smoky Bay. It
sells organic and sustainable oysters domestically as well as globally. The company possesses or leases
41.08 hectares of oyster creation licenses or leases in South Australia. (Eleftheriou,Komarev and
Klumpes 2018)
Angel Seafood is a recently listed company on the ASX. It was listed in February 2018. It runs with a
vision to become the largest oyster producer in Australia. It plans to pull off its pristine farming milieu over
time and expand seafood offerings in the market place. It is recognised by the National Association for
Sustainable Agriculture, Australia (NASAA). It is also sustainably qualifiedwith the ‘Friends of The Sea’
organisation.
The company can hold up to 20 million oysters in its waters of the three regions. Once the oysters
mature, they are funnelled to Coffin Bay. Here, their final growing stage takes place after which they are
marketed to the customers. The company sells the oysters both in the domestic markets as well as
processes for export from its purpose built and completely AQIS accredited export site which is in Port
Lincoln.

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Identification of Key Business Risks:
On studying the Annual Reports of the company, Angel Seafood Holding Pty Ltd., we came across the
following risks highlighted by the auditors and management.
 Operational Risk: The Company has a great deal of operational risks. The cultivation of oysters
could be challenging in the long run considering the enormous extractions.(Yoon,Hoogduin and
Zhang 2015) Moreover, there are other operational challenges like threat of changes in
Government policies, environmental hazards etc. which at the end affect the operations. (Nigrini
2017)
 Competition Risk: The industry is pertinent in competitions across both the domestic and global
markets. Despite taking due diligence in all its corporate decisions and the operations, the
company does not have any control over the actionsof its competitors. The actions of competitors
may impact Angel Seafood’s business positively or negatively. The impact could be on the
financial or operational performance of the company.Any increase in supplies from competitors or
any new alternative seafood production could hamper the company’s business and its operations.
Moreover, there is a high degree of risk in the access to spat on which the company relies heavily
to replenish its stocks. (Mohan 2018)
 Legal Risk: All the licenses required and owned by the company are issued through the PIRSA
(Primary Industries and Regions South Australia) managed by the South Australian state
government. There are a lot of regulations which the company needs to abide by failing which
there could be legal repercussions during renewals. (Mališ and Novak 2016)
 Environmental Risks: There are high chances of the company’s operations being affected by
environmental challenges or incidents. Any new environmental regulation would add to the costs
of the company wherein the company would have to comply with the respective law. Besides,
risks of climate change and global warming are amongst the uncontrollable environmental risks.
(Askary, Arnaout and Abughazaleh 2018)

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 Disease Risk: There are risks of diseases outbreaks impacting the health of oyster stocks. One
such disease is the Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) affecting infantile Pacific Oysters.
Although POMS has not befallen in the regions where Angel Seafood Holdings operate, there is
no certainty of it not affecting the coffin bay oysters. Although these have been controlled by way
of various measures, these along with other diseases may affect the health and welfare of the
oysters. (Huang, Lin, et al. 2017)
 Economic Risks:Economic Risks are general risks including inflation, currency fluctuations,
industrial disputations, interest rates and growth rate. These may impact the future earnings of
the company disturbing its ability to meet forecasts. (Vovchenko, Holina, et al. 2017)
These are the general risks the company may face as a whole. Besides these, there are various financial
risks which needs to be considered.
The financial risks include:
 Huge Capital Investments: The Company is a new company which have raised funds from
issue of shares. For the year ending 2017, the share proceeds were $ 5.8 million and for the year
ending 2018, the proceeds were $ 8 million. Although considering the fact that the company is a
new one, it has not been able to convert is operations into profit making yet. (Mock, Srivastava
and Wright 2017)
 Risk of losses: With the kind of volatile industry, the risk of loss making is very high. Moreover,
the costs in legal agreements further add to the outflows. Although the losses have reduced from
2017 to 2018, it does not end the risk of losses. (Childress, Hagi and Turnham2018)
 Negative operational and investing cash flows: The Company has been incurring losses since
its inception. The cash flows from operations and investments are all negative. To combat this the
company has issued further shares in the form of new share capital. (Comunale, Barragato and
Buhrau 2019)
 Risk of valuation of biological assets: The valuation of oysters is another challenge the
company may face. The valuation is further used to determine various ratios and analyse growth

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and other prospects. Any error in valuation may lead to risk of proper analysis. (Knechel and
Salterio 2016)

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Audit Risk Model
It is an instrument used by Auditors to arrive at the affiliation among varieties of risk in an Audit
engagement. The model states that the overall risk is the product of the major components of risk that are
three in number. These components are Inherent Risk, Control Risk and Detection Risk. (Han, Rezaee, et
al. 2015)
It is embodied in equation form as:
Audit Risk = (Inherent Risk) * (Control Risk) * (Detection Risk)
Now, Inherent Risk * Control Risk = Risk of material misstatement.
Therefore, Audit Risk = Risk of material misstatement * Detection Risk
Inherent Risks arise because of proneness of an item of misstatement because of its nature. For
example, items which require estimations. (Wright 2016)
Control Risks arise due to the failure of internal control systems in preventing, detecting or correcting
misstatements. (Griffiths 2016)
Detection Risksarise when the auditor’s procedures and methods fail to detect the misstatements.
The goal of the Auditor is to reduce the overall audit risk to an acceptable level. They first assess the
levels of the various types of risks. These levels are not quantifiable and require professional judgement.
The risk value is thus assessed by descriptive means and not a mathematical formula. (Cannon and
Bedard 2016)
Risk of material misstatements which includes Inherent Risk and Control Risk are under the control of the
management of the company. The detection risk can be directly manipulated by the Auditor.
So, if in an audit scenario, the risks of material misstatements are high, the auditor must lessen the
detection risk to balance the overall audit risk at asatisfactory level. The detection risk can be influenced
by various means like changing the audit team’s composition, changing the procedures or duration of the

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audit. Thus, detection risk and thereby audit risk can be reduced by employing skilled professionals in the
audit engagement team. (Boyle,DeZoort and Hermanson 2015)
In the given case of Angel Seafood Holding Pty. Ltd., the areas of risk of material misstatements include:
 Existence and valuation of Biological Asset: The Company’s biological assets are the oysters
which the company measures at fair value less costs to sell. In the valuation method adopted, it is
very difficult to ascertain the fair value as it requires a lot of complex judgements and estimations
with respect to the inputs. The valuation technique adopted is such that it includes a lot of both
internal and external inputs which makes the valuation a complex method. (Rice, Roberts and
Fitzmaurice 2015)
 Carrying value of intangible assets and property, plant and equipment: The Company has
Property, plant and equipment worth $ 3.4 million and intangible assets worth $ 2.7 million. If
recoverable value of these assets is to be ascertained, it would require exercising significant
judgement of factors such as the discount rate, inflation rates and future contract renewals. The
outcomes could vary drastically with different assumptions. Therefore, the audit of these assets is
a key concern. (Naidoo and Gasparatos 2018)
The above mentioned risks are those that has been highlighted by the existing auditors of Angel Seafood
Holding Pty. Ltd. There are other risks as well. The auditors need to apply professional scepticism and
due diligence in performing the audit of the company.
The factors that affect the Inherent risk and control risk i.e. the risk of material misstatements are:
 Nature of Business: The nature of business of Angel Seafood Holding Pty Ltd. is such that it
deals in biological assets. The industry is affected by a lot of economic and environmental
factors. There could be new laws implemented from time to time or environmental concerns may
apply restrictions to the normal business operations.
 Negative Reserves: The firm has been incurring losses since its inception. A negative cash flow
and reserves are matters of high concern as these affect the going concern of the entity. Losses

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are highly risky as these reduce the credibility of the company because of which banks and
creditors may become less interested in investing.
On considering the above risk factors, we may assess the risk rating of Angel Seafood Holding Pty Ltd. to
be medium as the only major risk is in valuation of various assets. The negative reserves and cash flows
are a matter of time as these may improve with time. Since the business is relatively new, it needs to be
given time to expand its area of operations and earn revenues. Apart from these, there are no other major
areas of risk present in the company’s financial statements.
Since, the risk of material misstatements is medium, the detection risk should also be maintained at a
medium-low level. This shall balance the overall audit risk. The Audit engagement team appointed should
have expert professionals who can assess the fair value of the intangible and biological assets. Overall
Audit risk should be reduced as much possible.

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Analytical Procedures:
Ratio Analysis:
Since the company provided was incorporated in 2016 itself we are not considering the ratios of that year
for our analysis. We shall consider the audited financial figures of 2017 and 2018 for our analysis.
Profitability Ratios Formulas 2017 2018
Operating profit margin (or net
profit margin)
Earnings before interest
expense and tax / sales
revenue x 100
-1.064 % -0.863 %
-0.95 % -0.828
Return on Capital Employed
Earnings before interest
expense and tax / capital
employed x 100
-0.358 % -0.117 %
Liquidity Ratios Formulas
Current or working capital ratio Current assets / current
liabilities
2.42:1 6.24:1
Quick ratio (Current assets - stock) /
current liabilities
1.52:1 4.83:1
*Here the inventory/stock is the biological assets owned by the company
Efficiency Ratios Formulas
Inventory turnover period (Inventory / cost of sales) x
365
240.61 Days 720.45 Days
Receivables collection period (Trade receivables / credit
sales) x 365
38.31 Days 62.5 Days
*Here we have taken the total sales for calculation
Financial Position Ratios Formulas
Gearing Ratio Long-term debt / (equity +
long-term debt) x 100
7.35 % 1.56 %

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Analysis of 4 key ratios:
Operating Profit Margin: The operating profit margin of the company is negative because of losses.
Since the ratio has improved from 2017 to 2018, it shows that the company is taking efforts to yield higher
returns. Since, it is the beginning years of the company, this ratio needs to be analysed in depth in the
future years.
Current Ratio: The current ration of the company is very satisfactory. It meets the standard requirements
in 2017 and further improves in 2019.
Inventory turnover period: The inventory turnover days have increased to almost three times in a year.
This shows that the production is more than the sales. This is a serious cause of concern as it would lead
to stocking up of oysters in the company’s bays. Such stocking up has environmental concerns and legal
repercussions as well.
Gearing Ratio: The Gearing ratio of the company has enriched over the year. With a 7% debt in the
overall capital, the debt component has reduced drastically to 1.56%. This leads to reduction in interest
cost. A balance of debt and equity is required for every entity.