Visit the SECs website (www.sec.gov) to obtain a copy of a recent Form 10-K filing for KOHLS CORPORATION a. What is the company's industry? b. What are its primary products? c. What raw materials does the company use? d. How large is the company: Sales Assets Employees e. Where is the company located? f. What other people/companies are closely associated with this company? g. Look at the Form 10-K: What information is included in Item 1 and Item 1A of the Form 10-K? How might that information be useful to the audit during audit planning?

3. Answer the following questions: a. What are the key economic factors about the industry? b. Where is the company in its life cycle? c. What are the five or six most important factors for success in this business? d. How does this company stand with respect to these factors? e. Describe four or five key business risks related to the clients business and industry. f. What notable accounting considerations are there for companies in this industry? g. What legal or regulatory matters are of concern? h. What social matters are of concern?

4. Analyze the company's financial strength: a. Assess the financial strength of the company? b. How is the financial strength likely to change in the next year or so? c. What are its sources of capital and what is the value of the company's capital? d. How have capital markets responded to the company in the last year? e. What is the quality of earnings? f. How does the company compare with others in the industry?

5. Prepare a broad audit plan: a. What material types of transactions and transaction cycles are involved? b. What are the high-risk areas? c. What are the low-risk areas? d. If management faced tremendous pressure regarding the entitys financial performance, what opportunities might exist for them to engage in fraudulent financial reporting? e. To what extent do you believe it will be appropriate to reduce assessed control risk? f. How will audit effort be allocated among geographical areas? g. What form of auditors' report do you expect will be issued; what does it mean?

6. Indicate as an appendix to the report how the project team was organized and how it functioned on the project