Auditors Dilemma One – Non-Audit Services 3 Dilemma Two – Fee Levels 6 Dilemma Three – Ethics Partner 7 Dilemma Four – Long Association with the Audit Client 8 Dilemma Five – Commencement in Practice 9 Dilemma Six – Financial Interest in a Client 10 Dilemma Seven – Business relations with audit clients 11 Dilemma Eight - Policies and Procedures 12 Appendix 1 – Accounting services - dos and don’ts 13 Appendix 2 – Accounting services - examples of
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Chapter 2 The CPA Profession ← Review Questions 2-1 The four major services that CPAs provide are: 1. Audit and assurance services Assurance services are independent professional services that improve the quality of information for decision makers. Assurance services include attestation services‚ which are any services in which the CPA firm issues a report that expresses a conclusion about the reliability of an assertion that is the responsibility of another party. The four
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND CASH FLOW 1. Liquidity measures how quickly and easily an asset can be converted to cash without significant loss in value. It’s desirable for firms to have high liquidity so that they have a large factor of safety in meeting short-term creditor demands. However‚ since liquidity also has an opportunity cost associated with it - namely that higher returns can generally be found by investing the cash into productive assets - low liquidity levels are also desirable to the
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ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Chapter Outline I. Reasons to analyze financial statements of foreign companies include: • making foreign portfolio investment decisions‚ • making foreign merger and acquisition decisions‚ • making credit decisions about foreign customers‚ • evaluating foreign suppliers‚ and • benchmarking against foreign competitors. II. There are several problems an analyst might encounter in analyzing foreign financial statements‚ including: • finding
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Working with Financial Statements 1. BC Corporation has 1‚800‚000 shares outstanding & earned $2‚700‚000 last year on assets of $20 million & equity of $15 million. What is the PE ratio for BC if the stock is currently selling at $18 per share? • 12 • EPS=$2‚700‚000/1‚800‚000=1.5 & PE is price per earnings (18/1.5)=12 2. Which of the following are traditional financial ratio categories? • Profitability ratios‚ financial leverage ratios‚ turnover ratios 3. AD Corporation has earnings
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Chapter 13 … Analyzing Financial Statements Chapter Outline I. Basics of Analysis -- Transforming data into useful information for decision making. A. Purpose of Analysis To help users (both internal and external) make better business decisions. 1. Internal users (managers‚ officers‚ internal auditors‚ consultants‚ budget officers‚ and market researchers) make the strategic and operating decisions of a company. 2. External users (shareholders‚ lenders‚ directors‚ customers‚ suppliers
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Chapter 1: Auditing: Integral to the Economy TRUE/FALSE 1. The need for assurance services arises because the interests of the users of information may be different from that of the interests of those responsible for providing information. ANS: T PTS: 1 OBJ: Demand for Assurances NAT: AACSB-Analytical skills | AICPA BB-Critical thinking 2. An audit of financial statements is a form of attestation service. ANS: T PTS: 1 OBJ: Auditing Defined NAT: AACSB-Analytical skills | AICPA BB-Critical
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ACC 3401 Audit and Professional Ethics │LECTURE 1│ Concepts of Auditing Learning Objectives After the lecture‚ students should be able to: describe the nature‚ purpose and scope of an audit; describe various basic principles and concepts of auditing and explain their importance in the actual audit procedures; and describe the professional framework within which auditors must operate. 1. Accounting vs. Auditing Accounting - the process of recording‚ classifying‚ summarizing and
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Financial Statement Analysis for Investors Michael Price MBA640: Accounting for Decision Making Dr. Ulinski December 11‚ 2012 Table of Contents: Section I: Introduction (Page 3) Section II: Literature Review (Page 4) Section III: Methodology and Data Collection (Page 5) Section IV: Results (Page 6) a. Income Statement Analysis (Page 7) b. Balance Sheet Analysis (Page 11) c. Statement of Cash flow Analysis (Page 14) Section V: Conclusion (Page 16) a. Recommendation
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President Jonathan’s Fuel Subsidy Removal and its Reversal The recent one-week shut-down of Nigerian economy following government’s fuel subsidy removal cost the economy $1.3b (Wagstyl‚ 2012). People resisted the good intentioned policy; they perceived that it would aggravate hardship. The resulting annual savings of $8 billion was to be re-channeled to infrastructure (Yusha ’u‚ 2012). It would also eradicate corruption (Wagstyl). During the crisis‚ local petroleum prices and global oil prices
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