Poroman Audit Firm was planning the audit for its existing client, Clay & Delta Corporation. The audit

partner was trying to determine the best audit strategy to use. Clay & Delta Corporation is a small retailing

company that does not have any warehousing facilities as all stock is kept on the premises. Being small,

they only have a small team of staff, which makes the separation of duties principle difficult to achieve. The

preliminary tests of controls found that the internal control procedures are well designed, but not always

observed due to the small amount of staff. Previous experience with this client also showed that controls

were not always observed. Despite this, Poroman has never discovered a material misstatement in the

accounts.

Required: Determine what audit strategy should be used and justify your answer.