Pacific Bank provides loans to businesses in the community through its Commercial Lending Department. Small loans (less than $100,000) may be approved by an individual loan officer, while larger loans (greater than $100,000) must be approved by a board of loan officers. Once a loan is approved, the funds are made available to the loan applicant under agreed-upon terms. Pacific Bank has instituted a policy whereby its president has the individual authority to approve loans up to $5,000,000. The president believes that this policy will allow flexibility to approve loans to valued clients much quicker than under the previous policy. As an intern auditor of Pacific Bank, how would you reposnd to this change in policy?

is believed that, by default there is a normal loan risk that is been associated with the business of Pacific Bank. A way to help reduce this risk is to carefully asses the loan applications. Loans that are large has greater risk in the event of default compared to smaller loans. Therefore, it is reasonable to have more than several individual involved in decision making give a loan that is very big. In addition, loans should be given base on those that meet the requirements, it should not be on the base on favoritism or people with relationship with bank president. Giving the bank president the power to give huge loans may lead to him granting loans to people who he is familiar with, without the required due process been followed. This may cause the bank to be credit exposed risks that are poor.