ABC I is a manufacturer and distributor of decaffeinated green coffee.The company was founded by Peter who is currently the chairman and CEO and owns 35% of the company. ABC's shares also trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange.ABC owns a proprietary SWISS WATER Process to decaffeinate coffee without the use of chemicals. By comparison, the vast majority of other decaffeination processes use chemicals to remove caffeine. The system is certified organic by the Organic Crop Improvement Association. Operations are conducted from a 38,000 sqft. leased facility in Burnaby, B.C. The company's year-end is December 31^st and is audited by Khan & Lin LLP, a public accounting firm.

The demand for decaffeinated coffee and specialty coffee has been steadily increasing over the past decade and ABC has attempted to increase awareness of the Swiss Water Process through public relations, customer co-marketing events, social media and web management.ABC has enjoyed a steady growth in sales and always achieves or outperforms performance targets.In the current year ABC revenues increased by about 6.5% from $82 million last year to $87.4 million.

Peter, is known throughout the Canadian coffee industry as a man of principle and integrity.He has grown the company based on the principles of corporate social responsibility, financial discipline and offering superior quality products. The company has grown to 93 dedicated employees; employee turnover is extremely low. Each new employee is vetted by Peter himself along with a the HR manager and the employee's direct report.All shortlisted potential employees also undergo background and reference checks. New employees are given extensive training on the key principles of the organization. Following these principals, ABC has a strong balance sheet which includes: 10 million in cash, virtually no debt and shareholders' equity of $47 million. ABC enjoys a strong credit rating with a "AA" score from Moody's.

ABC corporate social responsibility efforts have been recognized internationally and the company has been awarded major awards in the area. Unfortunately, in the current year a consumer protection agency claimed that it tested some of ABCs's coffee and discovered that some ABC coffee had been exposed to some chemicals. A number of customers have filed a class action lawsuit relating to the matter.Management of ABC has vehemently denied these allegations and has asserted that these allegations will not be substantiated in court. Peter believes a competitor tainted the results.

ABC's largest asset is inventory, which consists of premium-grade green Arabica coffees.ABC works with various coffee importers to source their coffee from producing countries located in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. The purchase price is based on the N'Y'C' coffee commodity price on the Intercontinental Exchange, plus a quality differential and therefore fluctuates, as all commodity prices, based on demand and supply.All inventory is purchased in U.S. dollars.

Due to space limitations in the current facility ABC began using the services of Seaforth Inc. which provides warehousing, handling and storage services.Seaforth is equally owned by Peter and his two children. ABC purchased approximately $3.3 million in services from Seathforth in the current year. ABC is Seathforth's largest customer comprising of 95% of Seaforth's sales. ABC also provided Seaforth with a non-interest bearing loan to help it get started with it's operations.

In May 2016, ABC implemented a new general ledger and inventory management system.ABC spent a significant amount of time and effort into investigating the new system as the old system could not deal with the increased volumes and would frequently crash causing disrupted operations.A steering committee was established to oversee the purchase and implementation of the new system. The committee consisted of management from the operations, finance and legal departments, several other key users of the system and Tom Khan, the external audit partner.Detailed system requirements were devised and the committee selected the software that best fit these requirements. Inclusion of Tom on the committee was particularly valuable because he was able to use his knowledge of ABCs business to provide control recommendations for the new system.For instance, the selected system has state of the art access and security controls; each employee is only granted access to functionality that they require for their job responsibilities. The system selected calculates cost based on the FIFO method and can easily handle the issues that arise when inventory purchase prices fluctuate and when inventory is purchased in a foreign currency.The new system was also tested by many employees and the IT team prior to the implementation.

Unfortunately, there was one glitch in the system conversion and a $500,000 batch of coffee beans which existed at the time conversion was not transferred into the new system.The beans were never sold because they were not showing as available in the system.The beans became spoiled and the company was forced to record inventory loss of $500,000.Even with the write-down, total assets were $58 million; however the write down resulted in a net income before taxes of $3.6 million, a reduction from the previous year's net income before taxes of $4 million. ABC performed an audit of the conversion after the glitch was discovered and found that this was the only error that was missed.

ABC success and attractive balance sheet has made it a target for takeover in the market.Recently, management of Nestle, a large international coffee roaster, approached ABC's senior management and proposed an attractive buyout offer for the shares of ABC.

Khan & Lin LLP has been the auditor of ABC for the past 10 years.In that time there have been very few misstatements discovered during the audit that required adjustments.The audit of ABC has been fairly routine without any significant issues arising.Today is June 22, 2016 you are the audit manager for the ABC audit.Tom, the audit partner,has told you to begin the audit planning for this year's audit as this would be a busy a year.He told you to also include some more time in the audit budget for the ABC audit. Nestle had recently approached him and asked for the audit team to perform some additional procedures during the audit of ABC.Nestle asked that the results of the procedures remain confidential and not tell ABC about this additional work.

A) Determine overall planning materiality and performance materiality. (Explain the rationale for all components of the calculation and support your analysis with calculations). (7 marks)

B) Identify three case facts that impact the risk of material misstatement (inherent risks or control risks) at the overall financial statement level (OFSL).For each factor identified, indicate if the factor increases or decreases risk, the type of risk (inherent or control) and provide your rationale for why the factor increases or decreases risk.(6 marks)

C) Identify four case facts that increase/decrease the risk of material misstatement at the account balance and assertion level.For each case fact identified indicate: the account balance and assertion affected, whether the factor increases or decreases risk, the type of risk (inherent or control) affected and provide your rationale.(10 marks)