Questions None of these questions has a style component, thus you don't have to write in complete sentences and well-formed paragraphs. You can use lists where appropriate if you want. 1) You have been approached by a local lumber producer who specializes in buying logs that have been thinned from the local forests around Las Vegas, NM and turning them into high quality lumber for things like flooring and molding in homes and businesses. The firm is a small, closely held corporation where the founder and his family members hold all the stock and, therefore, does not register with the SEC. You will be doing the first external audit that this firm has had done in its short lifetime. You currently are a member of the AICPA and you are a CPA with a license to practice in New Mexico. a) Develop a checklist of five areas or issues that you would want to research before you accepted this firm as an audit client and give an example of where you might go to get some information about each issue. Also, explain why you selected the area or issue, other than it is required by standards. That is, I want an explanation how the information might affect your client acceptance decision. Make your explanation and selections specific to this firm. b) Describe three organizations, boards, or groups that have legal authority to regulate aspects of your audit of this client and discuss how that organization, board, or group would regulate your work on this audit. c) Describe two reasons why this firm might be seeking an audit. I am looking for substantive reasons that show that you understand the importance of auditing in capital markets. That is, I am not just looking for a possible transaction the firm might engage in that might be facilitated by an audit. I want an explanation of how an audit would facilitate that transaction. 2) Each of the following situations involves a possible violation by a member in industry of the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct. For each situation, indicate whether it violates the Code. If it violates the Code, indicate which rule is violated and explain why. If you don't think it violations a rule, explain why as well. 2. Mitch Rider is the partner-in-charge of the audit of ABC, Inc. Over the years, he has become a golfing buddy of ABC's CEO, Shelly Rhoades. During the current year Rider and Rhoades jointly purchased an exclusive vacation home in North Carolina. The vacation home represents more than 10 percent of Rider's personal wealth. a) You are auditing a firm that you have audited for years. However, the auditee has yet to pay their full fee from last year's audit and you have turned the matter over to a collection agency. b) During the audit of a client, you found that the manager on the job had not reviewed a staff accountant's verification of the auditee's inventory balance at year-end. The client was a manufacturing firm and inventory represented 30% of their assets. c) During the a ...