Sarah is an audit senior with Childs, Maxwell and Weaver, LLP. Sarah specializes in auditing loan loss reserve for financial institution clients. This current year she has noticed that two of her financial institutions in town have written loans off to a loan customer, Mr. T (fictional name to protect the guilty). Mr. T is well known in town as a highly successful real estate developer and businessman with many different business dealings. As Sarah is auditing on her third financial institution in town, she notices that the bank has loans of $3.5 million outstanding to Mr. T. The current loan loss reserve could not cover the losses on Mr. T's loans. Sarah has recommended a significant increase to the loan loss reserve account. The client will not discuss increasing the loan loss reserve. Ms. Childs, senior partner on the audit, wants to know how the audit firm can justify the increase loan loss reserve account.

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To justify the increase in the loan loss reserve account Sarah and the audit firm can take the following steps 1 Risk Assessment Conduct a thorough ri... View the full answer