You work as an audit manager for a medium sized firm of auditors. Your accounting firm has asked if they would consider the appointment of being the external auditor of the Blackjack Plc. The company is an on-line bookstore, principally based in England. It has eight distribution centres from which books are sent to customers on receipt of on-line orders. The company relies on the highly automated system for managing the accounting and inventory function.

Required: Describe the factors you should consider before deciding whether to accept the appointment as external audit of BlackJack Plc.

(15 marks) (approx. 300 words)