CHAPTER AUDIT PLANNING AND ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES THE FALL OF ENRON: DID ANYONE UNDERSTAND THEIR BUSINESS? 8 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to 8-1 Discuss why adequate audit planning is essential. Make client acceptance decisions and perform initial audit planning. Gain an understanding of the client’s business and industry. Assess client business risk. Perform preliminary analytical procedures. State the purposes of analytical procedures and the timing
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Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy The case at hand is primarily to discuss the financial reporting strategy adopted by Microsoft Inc. for the period 1996-1999 and the subsequent litigation that arose out of the accounting practice followed by Microsoft. Microsoft’s primary operations has been developing and manufacturing of the software products. As a company‚ it has shown a very stable growth in terms of revenues and profits‚ thus enabling better than industry share price increase over
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Auditing Research Paper January 9‚ 2012 Auditing in general is an organized process of accurately finding and assessing statements regarding financial records to determine the degree of accuracy between those statements and established criteria and communicate the results to interested users and or the public. Even though auditing and accounting have similarities‚ they can be distinguished. An accountant handles the daily financial operations for a business‚ while an auditor reviews the information
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AUDIT TECHNIQUES I. NATURE and PURPOSE of AUDIT TECHNIQUES Auditing Techniques are the basic tools utilized by auditors to obtain audit evidences. Auditing Technique is defined as any technique as any technique used to determine deviations from actual accounting and controls established by a business or organization as well as uncovering problems in established processes and controls. Auditing Techniques can be used to aid organizations by uncovering errors in business practices and providing
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AUDITING CHAPTER-HEADS Chapter 1 : INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 : TYPES OF AUDIT Chapter 3 : INTERNAL CONTROL AND INTERNAL CHECK Chapter 4 : VOUCHING AND VERIFICATION Chapter 5 : AUDIT PLANNING AND DOCUMENTATION Chapter 6 : COMPANY AUDITOR Chapter 7 : COMPANY AUDIT Chapter 8 : TYPES OF REPORT UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION Q1. Define an ‘Audit’ and state the various objects of an audit. Or ‘Two main objects
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AUDITING 4 INTERNAL CONTROL In business control is required for optimum utilizatiion of resources and for maximising the profits.business operations are carried on with the help of human agents and equipments.both require supervision to ensure that tasks assigned to them are carried out properly to avoid wastes and losses. Internal control required for small business is not identical with that required for a large business in the sense that in case of the former‚the entire control
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The following are independent situations and you should refer to APES (Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards 110 “Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants”) and the Corporations Act 2001 as a minimum for each situation. You need to identify any breaches (under what section) and why. You should also consider any remedy or alternative course of action that should have been considered for each where appropriate. There is no word limit set for this assignment but it is expected that each
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are two independent situations: A. Grinner and Greeter‚ CPAs‚ were engaged to perform an audit of the financial statements of Happy‚ Inc. Happy’s management would not allow Grinner and Greeter to confirm any of the accounts receivable. All other auditing procedures were performed as considered necessary by Grinner and Greeter and no problems were found. However‚ Grinner and Greeter were unable to satisfy themselves with regard to the balance in the accounts receivable. B. Tick and Tie‚ CPAs‚ were
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tries‚ therefore‚ to motivate its personnel towards the achievement of a range of goals. These may include societal organizational‚ group and individual goals. A HRM consultant may be requested to assist in determining what motivational tools and strategies should be used. This may concern‚ for example. • The important of the overall organizational climate (the psychological and the motivational environment of the organization). The underlying assumption is that this climate strongly
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Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of
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