You are the audit senior in charge of the audit of inventory at Dakeda Co.Ltd. a smartphone retailer chain in Southern Taiwan. To ensure that smartphones are quickly delivered to their shops, the company operates 2 warehouses in Tainan and Kaohsiung. Today you are observing the inventory count at Tainan.

a. There has been a flu outbreak in Tainan and half of the warehouse staff called in sick. The manager of the warehouse has requested that you ask your staff to help out in the stock-taking process. Should your staff help out?

b. In most parts of the audit you found that the inventory is properly accounted for and that the warehouse personnel is diligently following the inventory instructions. You notice most mistakes come from the Storeroom 2. During the inventory count, the staff received a call from the Anping store that they need 20 units of Sony Mobile Phones urgently by noon. The store manager requested that you allow the inventory to be shipped to Anping. What should you do?

c. You found two obsolete smartphones during the count. What should you do?

d. You noticed that as soon as the inventory audit has been completed, the prenumbered tags are discarded. Is this practice fine? What should you do?

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a No my staff should not help out in the stocktaking process There are several reasons for this Firs... View the full answer