Internal Controls XACC/280 April 7‚2013 Axia Internal Controls Internal controls are put into place to safeguard a company’s assets and to promote the accuracy of their accounting records. There are two primary goals of internal controls. The first goal of internal controls is to safeguard it’s assets from employee theft‚ robbery‚ or unauthorized use. When there is a large some of money there is temptation from employee’s to take some of it. Many employees believe they are underpaid
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During an operational engagement‚ an internal auditor observes a large number of above-ground storage containers and a large amount of black emissions from a smokestack. The organization has an environmental safety department. The engagement is not designed to consider environmental concerns. The best course of action is to A. Make a note to consider environmental risk concerns when developing the engagement plan for the next year‚ but do not expand the scope of the existing engagement because
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Process Description: How to Write about a Sequence of Events Posted by Dennis G. Jerz‚ on July 16th‚ 2011 This document describes how to write a process description‚ a variation of the short report designed to convey to the reader how a change takes place through a series of stages. The process description examines an event over time; by contrast‚ the mechanism description focuses on an object in space. Use a process description when your intended reader wants to learn about the action in question
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Internal Control Definition Internal control is broadly defined as a process‚ effected by an entity’s board of trustees‚ management‚ and other personnel‚ designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives in the following categories: 1. Effectiveness and efficiency of operations 2. Reliability of financial reporting 3. Compliance with applicable laws and regulations 4. Safeguarding of assets Internal control consists of five interrelated components:
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Internal Controls Internal controls are all the procedures and measures companies put in place in order to achieve two specific goals related to accounting (Kieso‚ Kimmel‚ & Weygandt‚ 2011). The first goal is the protection against loss of assets from various sources such as theft or accounting error (Kieso‚ Kimmel‚ & Weygandt‚ 2011). Companies‚ clients and shareholders must have assurance that there is suitable control over all business assets like inventory and bank accounts all the
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Question 1 a) Select two companies where inadequate internal control have resulted in disastrous effects on the organisation or exposed it to heavy losses. Research the facts of the failure and report on the facts and the losses suffered. In your report‚ include suggestions for changes to operations (internal controls) that could have prevented the final outcome. Where could you find a list of these internal controls and how are they documented? Examples of companies include: Coles Myer
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Information Technology‚ Internal Control‚and Financial Statement Audits By Thomas A. Ratcliffe and Paul Munter In Brief ASB Tackles IT System Control Risk Modern data processing systems pose new‚ risk-laden challenges to the traditional audit process. Whereas it was once possible to conduct a financial statement audit by assessing and monitoring the controls over paper-based transaction and accounting systems‚ businesses have increasingly turned to electronic transaction and accounting
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Generally‚ every organization’s performance could be enhanced if they have a sound internal control system. Internal control sys has two subcategories: A) Control environment B) Control procedures and policies @ control activities Control environment is abt attitude of board n mgt‚ whether they have integrity(honesty) and value the importance of running a sound internal control system. So‚ if their attitude is good‚ they will raise awareness and foster good attitude among ppl in the org
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TRADITIONAL JOB DESCRIPTION ASSIGNMENT ON JOB ANALYSIS SUBMITTED TO: - TEHZEEB SAKEENA GROUP MEMBERS |Job Description | |Job Title: |Audit Officer |Company Job Code: |..................................| | | |
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This paper is to examine the key potential drivers within the present internal environment. Several models would be applied to support the answer and they are Stakeholder Power/Interest Matrix‚ Cultural Web‚ Resource audit‚ Value Chain‚ and threshold and core competences. With using Ryanair as an industrial example‚ this essay would talk about how important strengths and weaknesses are to be used in designing strategy. Ryanair was founded in 1985 by Tony Ryan who already died in 2007. It was originally
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