Fellowes and Associates Chartered Accountants is a successful mid-tier accounting firm with a large range of clients

Question:

Fellowes and Associates Chartered Accountants is a successful mid-tier accounting firm with a large range of clients across Canada. In 2011, Fellowes and Associates gained a new client, Health Care Holdings Group (HCHG), which owns 100 percent of the following entities:
• Shady Oaks Centre, a private treatment centre
• Gardens Nursing Home Ltd., a private nursing home
• Total Laser Care Limited (TLCL), a private clinic that specializes in the laser treatment of skin defects.
Year end for all HCHG entities is June 30.
You are the audit partner reviewing the audit work papers for HCHG for the year ended June 30, 2011. Today is July 13, 2011, and the is due to be signed in three weeks' time.
During your review you note that the fixed-term borrowings of HCHG totaling $75 million are approaching and HCHG does not seem to have renegotiated any terms of refinancing. You are aware, from your experience with other clients, that banks are reluctant to extend financing on the same terms in the current market. The financing of HCHG was historically managed by the group's treasurer, who left the group six months ago and has not been replaced.
HCHG's financial controller, who has been with the group for nine months, has advised you that he has been busy renegotiating with some of HCHG's key suppliers who recently requested cash on delivery for all orders, rather than extending the normal credit terms.
You are also aware that a fire that occurred in the Shady Oaks cafeteria last week was not adequately covered by insurance. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured in the fire, but the cafeteria was so badly damaged that it had to be closed. When you are discussing this matter with HCHG's law firm, they reveal that the centre is unlikely to have adequate professional indemnity insurance to meet the current demands of several malpractice cases that have been brought against it in the last 12 months.
Required
(a) Are there any going concern issues for HCHG? Explain. If so, what are the mitigating circumstances?
(b) How will you recommend that the issues be handled in the and the Audit Report
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