5 B. Royal Vector Sdn Bhd (Royal V.) provides logistics and storage services, as well as cold supply chain solutions to its clients. Most of the clients would physically come to the business premises for Royal V.'s services and some would contact via online. On Credit Facility Approval Some of the clients are cash clients while some others are granted with a credit facility from the company. The clients have to apply from the company's credit collection department for the approval of credit facility. Additionally, the clients who have ventured in highly valuable projects and those who are deemed as major clients would be automatically granted a credit facility by the company. Prior to approval, the clients were asked to fill in the application form that require the details of the clients' name, annual financial earnings, and the expected value of the clients' shipments. The clients will then submit the application form together with a copy of personal identity card or company's registration details. There are no other additional supporting documents that are demanded upon submission. Once submitted, clerk from the credit collection department will review the applicants' documents within a day and grant the approvals. On Shipment and Billings All shipments are handled by the storage and logistic department. Upon arrival of the goods and cargoes, the documents such as the consignment note, bill of lading, airway bill, custom declaration and shipping request will be handed over to the storage and logistic department's clerk for further shipment process. Then, the same clerk will create and issue a job order in the system. The original job orders with their supporting documents will then be handed immediately to the billing department clerk. Upon the receiving of the job orders, the clerk of the billing department will then create sales invoices based on the respective job orders. Each issuance of sales invoices for the clients will be automatically updated in the billing system and will be simultaneously updated in the system which can be accessed only by the credit collection department. The normal credit term given as in the invoice is 30 days. However, there are special cases whereby the credit terms are 15 days only. On Credit Collection The head of credit collection department would normally generate debtors' ageing report from the system on a monthly basis for the department's performance review purpose. From the report, further proactive actions will be taken in improving the department's collection performance. For the case of clients with long overdue terms and deemed uncollectible, they will be classified by the head of the department as bad debt clients immediately. So far there is no clear procedures pertaining to the change of status of account receivables to bad debt account status among the clients. Additionally, the procedures on credit collection activities are prone to the calls made by the personnel of the department to the clients as reminders. There was no letter of demand has been issued by the department so far. Required: i. Determine five (5) weaknesses that may exist in the sales and collection activities of Royal V. (10 marks) ii. For any three (3) weaknesses identified in (i), elaborate their possible impact on Royal V. (6 marks) C. The objective in the audit of the purchases and the trade payables balances is to evaluate whether the accounts affected are fairly stated in accordance with accounting standards (Arens et al, 2017). Explain any four (4) substantive procedures that can be performed by the auditor for verifying the purchases and the trade payables balances. (8 marks)