You are audit in-charge of Marble Limited. The company has established an internal audit function, which is headed by a Chartered Accountant, who has significant internal audit experience. The head of internal audit also reports functionally to audit committee and administratively to the Chief Executive. Based on your preliminary review of the internal audit function, you consider that internal auditing activities are relevant to the risk assessment, and therefore, you are planning to obtain understanding and perform an assessment of internal audit. What are the important criteria that you would consider for assessment of internal audit function?

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year.a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs.b. calculate the eoq.c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?