The Demand for Audit and Other Assurance Services O ssu a S s Chapter 1 ©2012 Prentice Hall Business Publishing‚ Auditing 14/e‚ Arens/Elder/Beasley Arens/Elder/Beasley 1-1 SarbanesSarbanes-Oxley Act Enron WorldCom The Act established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. It also requires auditors to report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. ©2012 Prentice Hall Business Publishing‚ Auditing 14/e‚ Arens/Elder/Beasley Arens/Elder/Beasley 1-2
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The following writing will reflect and describe the key concepts and topics of the course that I feel has made me a stronger candidate to enter the business world and discuss how this course has affected me in my professional development as a student and as a person as well as encouraging me on my academic path. During the last ten weeks‚ I have had the opportunity to learn a variety of concepts and topics that will make me a stronger candidate to enter the business world. The most important topics
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STAFFING Meaning: Staffing basically involves matching jobs and individuals. This may require functions like manpower planning‚ recruitment‚ selection‚ training‚ development‚ performance appraisal‚ transfers‚ promotions etc. Nature of Staffing: Staffing has the following important features: 1. Staffing is a basic function of management. 2. It is concerned with human resources management in the organization. 3. Staffing function is performed continuously. Every manager has to guide and train
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STAFFING This is identifying‚ selecting‚ training and the retention of qualified workers within an organization. This duty is primarily for the first line Supervisor/Manager. People are a company’s most valued asset; therefore‚ the company is to be concerned about the employee from the minute he steps into the firm until he reaches his full potential in his career. EMERGING WORKFORCE Workers with new goals and objectives are coming into the business scene who is more concerned about career
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Internal Audit Plan of CoolBlog Dessert Sdn. Bhd. 1.0 Business Profile 1.1 Background CoolBlog is an international brand that specializes in desserts and beverages in a take-away kiosk concept. They are first launched in Singapore in 2005 and expanding their business in Malaysia by introducing dessert and beverages with 25 flavours and 300 products range. There are more than 230 outlets opening in various places including Muadzam Shah‚ Pahang which is opening in 2012 and located at MM198-206
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Accounting Education: an international journal Vol. 20‚ No. 2‚ 203– 222‚ April 2011 Adding Value to Audit Education through ‘Living’ Cases JULIE DRAKE University of Huddersfield‚ UK Received: November 2009 Revised: July 2010 Accepted: September 2010 ABSTRACT This paper seeks to address the perceived failure of university teaching to foster critical understanding of audit practice and to identify a potential remedy. It contributes to the debate (Maltby‚ 2001‚ “Second thoughts about ‘Cases in
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Interim An audit which conducted in between the two annual audits with a view to find out interim profits to enable the company to declare an interim dividend is known as Interim Audit. It is a kind of audit which is conducted between the two periodical or balance sheet audits. Objectives Of Interim Audit 1. To know profit or loss of interim period. 2. To distribute interim dividend. 3. To get loan on the basis of interim account. 4. To get information about the financial position
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which exceeds materiality of $50‚000. c. The auditor should either propose an audit adjustment so that the unadjusted statement amount is less than materiality‚ and/or perform more testing to obtain a better estimate of the population misstatements. The additional testing will likely focus on receivables and inventory because they have the largest estimated misstatements. 9-28 a. The following terms are audit planning decisions requiring professional judgment: Preliminary judgment about materiality
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assertions and audit objectives - Define management assertions and the related audit objectives - Describe management assertions related to class of transactions‚ balances and presentation and disclosures - List out and describe general transaction related audit objectives‚ balance related audit objectives and presentation and disclosure audit objectives - Understand specific audit objectives and how they are linked to general audit objectives and management assertions Topic 4 – Audit evidence
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Q1 - What is the relationship between the risk assessment process and the collection of audit evidence? The risk assessment process happens at the very beginning of the engagement and is to determine the level of risk present in the company. The risk assessment phase is when the auditor assess the client’s situation‚ conducts an independence threat analysis and decides whether to accept the client or not. The risk assessment is influenced by various factors such as the degree to which external
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