Rittenberg 8th edition: Q 2-45 (pages 66 and 67) 2-45 (Audit Committees and Auditor Independence‚ LO 4‚ 5‚ 6) The audit committee is required to evaluate the independence of both the internal and external audit functions. Required a. What factors would you suggest an audit committee look at in evaluating the external auditor’s independence? b. How can the audit committee influence the independence of the internal audit function? c. The audit committee must pre-approve all nonaudit services
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Question – Chapter 2: Research Problem 2 When Oprah gave away Pontiac G6 sedans to her TV audience‚ was the value of the cars taxable? On Labor Day weekend in 2006‚ World Furniture Mall in Plano‚ Illinois‚ gave away $275‚000 of furniture because the Chicago Bears shut out the Green Bay Packers in the team’s football season opener at Lambeau Field in Green Bay (26-0). Was the free furniture in the form of a discount or rebate taxable‚ or should the furniture company have handed the customers a Form
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MONASH UNIVERSITY SEMSTER 1 – YEAR 2011 AFW 3040 – ACCOUNTING THEORY BY: SARAH WONG Assignment 2 – 1500-word Essay Topic: How social and environmental reporting practices undertaken by companies highlight the limitations of the conceptual framework. Introduction: Accountancy has always been concerned with mainly the accountability of directors to shareholders and companies to creditors. As companies grow larger and become more integrated with the society‚ this call for a focus towards sustainability
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4a) His income is €300‚ so his budget constraint is the line between y=30 and x=75. The optimal choice (utility-maximizing) is shown by the point of tangency with his utility function. This is point E (and x =30). b) The budget constraint shifts to x = 120. The new optimal choice is point C (and x = 35). c) ΔY∙py = (30-22‚5)∙10 = €75 d) The total effect: Point E C e) Income effect: F C Substitution effect: E F f) Income effect < 0‚ so X is an inferior good. 5a) U(x‚y) = x1x2
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Chapter 13 Problem 1 a. the use of debt financing leverages up ROE from 12.0 percent to 19.2 percent; total dollars returned to investors (including both stockholders and creditors)increased from $600‚000 to $680‚000; and the “extra” $80‚000 came from the “taxman‚” as taxes are reduced by that amount b. ROE 12.0%/15.0% c. At 20% ROE is 6.0 % At 0.6% ROE is 12.0% At .20 % ROE is 18.0 % The lesson is that although the use of leverage increases expected ROE‚ it also increases
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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In “The Problem of Cell 13”‚ Jacques Futrelle tells how a scientist‚ Professor Van Dusen (also known as The Thinking Machine) takes on an experiment challenged by his friends‚ Dr. Charles Ransom and Alfred Fielding. The challenge he accepts is to escape a death-cell in Chisholm Prison within 7 days. He requests three harmful things: tooth powder‚ his boots polished‚ and $25. (Two 10s and a 5) The purpose of proving this experiment is because Dusen believes “Nothing is impossible. The mind is master
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CHAPTER 2 SOLUTIONS TO SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS FROM SCOTT TEXTBOOK 6th edition 11. Several reasons can be suggested why oil company managers have reservations about RRA: • The discount rate of 10% might not reflect the firm’s cost of capital. • Low reliability. RRA involves making a large number of assumptions and estimates. While SFAS 69 deals with low reliability in part by requiring end-of-period oil and gas prices to be used (rather than prices anticipated when the reserves are expected
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performance (T/F) | | Definition True | | | Term A well-developed budget can operate and enforce itself. (T/F) | | Definition False | | | Term The budget itself and the administration of the budget are the responsibility of the accounting department. (T/F) | | Definition False | | | Term The flow of input data for budgeting should be from the highest levels of responsibility to the lowest. (T/F) | | Definition False | | | Term Effective budgeting requires clearly
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