EXHIBIT 4.55.1 Majestic (percent) Industry (percent) Analytical Procedure Documentation Sales: Rooms 60.4% 63.9% Food and beverage 35.7 32.2 Other 3.9 3.9 Costs: Rooms department Food and beverage Administrative and general Management fee Advertising 15.2 17.3 34.0 27.2 8.0 8.9 3.3 1.1 2.7 3.2 Real estate taxes 3.5 3.2 Utilities, repairs, maintenance Profit per sales dollar Rooms dept. ratios to room sales dollars: Salaries and wages Laundry 15.9 13.7 17.4 25.4 18.9 15.7 1.1 3.7 Other 5.3 7.6 Profit per rooms sales dollar Food/beverage (F/B) ratios to F/B sales dollars: 74.8 73.0 Cost of food sold 42.1 37.0 Food gross profit Cost of beverages sold Beverages gross profit Combined gross profit Salaries and wages 57.9 63.0 43.6 29.5 56.4 70.5 57.7 64.6 39.6 32.8 Music and entertainment 2.7 Other 13.4 13.8 Profit per F/B sales dollar Average annual percent of rooms occupied Average room rate per day Number of rooms available per day 4.7 15.3 62.6 68.1 $160 $120 200 148
Kelly Griffin, an audit manager, had begun preliminary analytical procedures of selected statistics related to the Majestic Hotel. Her objective was to obtain an understanding of the hotel’s business in order to draft a preliminary audit plan. She wanted to see whether she could detect any troublesome areas or questionable accounts that could
require special audit attention. Unfortunately, Griffin caught the flu and was hospitalized. From her sickbed, she sent you the schedule she had prepared (Exhibit 4.55.1) and has asked you to write a memorandum identifying areas of potential misstatements or other matters that the preliminary audit plan should cover.
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Write a memorandum describing Majestic’s operating characteristics compared to the industry average insofar as you can tell from the statistics. Do these analytical procedures identify any areas that could represent potential misstatements in the audit?
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