Bold Ltd. supplies navy uniforms across the country. The company has 5 warehouses at different locations throughout the India and 4 warehouses at…

(a) (a) As per SA 501 “Audit Evidence- Specific Considerations for Selected Items", when inventory is material to the financial statements, the auditor shall obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the existence and condition of inventory by: (1) Attendance at physical inventory counting, unless impracticable, to: (i) Evaluate management's instructions and procedures for recording and controlling the results of the entity's physical inventory counting; (ii) Observe the performance of management's count procedures; (iii) Inspect the inventory; and (iv) Perform test counts. (2) Performing audit procedures over the entity's final inventory records to determine whether they accurately reflect actual inventory count results. (b) Attendance at Physical Inventory Counting Not Practicable: In some cases, attendance at physical inventory counting may be impracticable. This may be due to factors such as the nature and location of the inventory. For example - where inventory is held in a location that may pose threats to the safety of the auditor. The matter of general inconvenience to the auditor, however, is not sufficient to support a decision by the auditor that attendance is impracticable. Further, as explained in SA 200, the matter of difficulty, time, or cost involved is not in itself a valid basis for the auditor to omit an audit procedure for which there is no alternative or to be satisfied with audit evidence that is less than persuasive. In some cases where attendance is impracticable, alternative audit procedures, for example inspection of documentation of the subsequent sale of specific inventory items acquired or purchased prior to the physical inventory counting, may provide sufficient appropriate audit evidence about the existence and condition of inventory. In other cases, however, it may not be possible to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the existence and condition of inventory by performing alternative audit procedures. In such cases, SA 705 requires the auditor to modify the opinion in the auditor's report as a result of the scope limitation.