For each of the following independent cases, state the highest level of deficiency that you believe the circumstances representa control deficiency, a significant deficiency, or a mate- rial weakness. Explain your decision in each case. Assume the same facts exist as in Case (6), except that management has informed the chief financial officer that she must watch over these matters much more carefully. She has attended several CPE courses on accounting and seems to be caught up in the area in which the mis- statements occurred

Case 6

For each of the following independent cases, state the highest level of deficiency that you believe the circumstances representa control deficiency, a significant deficiency, or a mate- rial weakness. Explain your decision in each case. Assume the same facts exist as in Case (5) except that you, the auditor, have identified the misstatements at the end of June of the year currently under audit. Members of management acknowledged that the misstatements occurred because they simply didnt know the rules at the time, and now they know the rules. Management, within the last six months of the year under audit, hired a new financial accounting expert and believes that the control weakness has been corrected as of year-end. Management believes that it is extremely unlikely that such a misstatement could occur again with the new expert reviewing these matters