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Apollo Shoes, Inc.
Internal Audit has completed a review of the Apollo Shoes Corporation in conformity with the fiscal year 2005-2006 plan and as advised by the Sarbanes-Oxley federal requirements. The objective of this review was to contribute to the improvement of risk management and the control systems within the Apollo Shoes Company by identifying and evaluating the company's exposures to risks and the controls designed by management to reduce those risks.
The Apollo Shoes Company attempts to distinguish them by focusing on footwear that is connected to extra-galactic exploration. Combining technological advances in light and sound, Apollo Shoes has fashioned rugged footwear to enable galactic sports participants to realize their fullest potential.
Apollo Shoes also streamlines original footwear two of which have been particularly successful: Spotlight for athletes who compete at night, and Siren for police who work graveyard shifts in notorious districts.
A leader in innovative design and using high technology to produce electronic shoe products, Apollo Shoes is known for the athletic electronic performance and style of its footwear. Products in its pipeline are the Speakershoe, footwear with an amplified loudspeaker, and the Phoneshoes, the sneaker with a cellular phone.
Apollo Shoes, headquartered in Delaware, is a public corporation whose stock is traded in the -- over -- the --...
The Company employs more than a 100 employees, and occupies approximately 10,000 square feet of space. Its products are shipped to large and small retail outlets in six states.
The scope of the audit included a review of the five divisions of the Apollo Shoe company constituting: Marketing; Finance; Information Systems; Operations; and Organization and Personnel.
The review covered the period of December, 2006 to March, 2007.
RISK EXPOSURE
The intention of this audit is to periodically perform a detailed risk analysis of all of the Company's auditable entities using factors such as level of external regulation, operating expenditures, amount of cash flows, frank activities and so forth. Apollo Shoes Inc. was determined to be a low risk entity due to only minor adverse instances compared to its general optimistic portfolio and expectations.
Apollo Shoes seems to have made remarkable progress this past year with both internal and external performance having achieved some prodigious bids including some of the world's premier athletes signing on as spokespeople for using their products.
On the other hand, given the current recession and global fiscal difficulties, as well as uncertainty with the Federal Reserve's adjustments of interest rates, business has been less than previous years. Compounded to…
References
Louwers. T & Reynold, K. Apollo Shoes inc: An audit case
McConnel, Dl & Schweiger, CH.(2007). Implementing the New ASB Risk Assessment Audit Standards. CPA Journal
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