Accounting information systems ____________________________
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“ROGUE TRADER”
You are a new graduate, and you just got the job of a lifetime at the New York office of one of the big accounting firms. Yesterday, the managing partner, Connie Rise, set up an appointment for you to meet with her today. “Good morning,” she says, as you wonder what you have done to be summoned to her office at 8 a.m. You are still reeling from relocating to New York and working in this fast-paced environment. Here you are, plucked from a small city located among wine farms and rolling hills on the central coast of California and plunged right into the thick of things in New York City. But you love your new environment. You earn a great salary, pay exorbitant rent for a tiny apartment, and are on the audit team for one of the leading banks in the U.S. You couldn’t sleep because of the traffic noise last night, so you stayed up far too late reading the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations’ (COSO) Internal Control-Integrated Framework and tried to figure out how it relates to your first real audit. “Please sit down,” Ms. Rise continues. “How has your first month here been? Are you enjoying your first auditing assignment at such a large bank?” “Oh, Ms. Rise, I love it here and