Kobyashi Maru Pet Food USA
Kobyashi Maru Pet Food USA, Limited is a subsidiary of a Chinese company and is preparing to issue an
audit report, completed by your independent audit team, covering comparative balance sheets as of
December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the income statements, statements of owners’ equity and cash flow
statements for the three years ended on December 31, 2006.
The Company’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Chinese Exchange.
Each of the following sets of facts is an INDEPENDENT audit reporting scenario and should be
addressed separately of the others. You will address each scenario in an APA style research paper that
also will address the reporting inaccuracies that differing international accounting standards create. You
will combine your findings into a comprehensive research document of 35 pages excluding title page and
references. Detailed analysis is necessary as are references for your conclusions.
Segment Reporting
Kobyashi Moru Pet Food, USA Limited, (hereinafter called Kobyashi Moru) does not disclose segment
information for its various divisions and profit centers because Chinese accounting standards do not
require it. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not require such disclosures or
reporting delineations in required SEC filings for foreign issuers of stock or securities.
Indicate the effect of the above cited differences on your audit report that will be widely used by
stakeholders and potential stakeholders in the United States.
Explanatory and Opinion Paragraphs
Kobyashi Moru reports its inventory, fixed assets, depreciation and cost of goods sold on a current value
basis (fair market value on the date of the financial statements).
Such accounting violates the cost principle of US GAAP. There is a disclosure of the pertinent facts
stating this in a footnote on the key financial statements.
What factors as the auditor of record, should you consider in deciding whether to issue a qualified or an
adverse opinion in your final audit report?
Draft the appropriate language, using text and scholarly research references for the explanatory and
opinion paragraphs for:
a)
b)
A qualified opinion
An adverse opinion
Financial Statements Prepared using Chinese and GAAP Standards
Kobyashi Moru prepares two sets of financial statements; one set using Chinese standards and GAAP
(as meager as those standards may be) and the other for use in the US attempting to conform to US
GAAP. The Chinese financials contain a single footnote describing the accounting principles used in the
original books of entry.
How should you report on these two sets of statements in your final audit report?
Effect of Foreign Accounting Standards
In the preceding independent scenarios and research, you will have found significant conflicting issues
between global reporting standards that will affect every audit engagement that addresses books of
original entry that utilize foreign GAAP that are translated into financial statements. Your previous
coursework has taught you that in order for stakeholders to accurately address financial performance
metrics, they have to be based on standards that are consistent and that follow US GAAP rules.
Comparative analyses can only take place in an environment of stable, static and consistent rules.
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