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    My current assignment involves some training on a deployable computer system that is different in nature to the system my colleagues work with on a day to day basis. Although there is a classroom based computer system available for the general training of the main computer system this is not suitable for the deployable system. The solution that I use is the server room / workshop area. This is a working area that the trainees don’t normally enter so a full health and safety brief is required before

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    • Andersen was too fee-driven. For example‚ hard selling of services (particularly consultants tagging along on audits) that the clients did not need and giving results of both auditing and consulting‚ supported by the client’s goals. • Resistance to change from seemingly unethical to ethical practices. The root of the problem was top management figures who exemplified poor ethical practices. • Internal conflicts of interests between consulting and auditing businesses. • Internal competition

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    1. How an auditor evaluates the efficacy of internal control system? Ans: The auditor has to decide whether he can place reliance on the internal control. If internal control is adequate‚ he can restrict nature‚ timing and extent of his checking accordingly. If not‚ he is left with no alternative but to resort to detailed checking. The manner of evaluation of internal control may be in the following lines: 1. Making preliminary evaluation of the system 2. Compliance procedures to evaluate

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    Institute of Accountants has approved this Guideline for publication. These guidelines have been adapted by the Internal Audit Committee of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants from the publication "Guidance for Internal Auditors" issued in June 1990 under the aegis of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) in the United Kingdom. These guidelines provide advice to internal auditors on the main issues and procedures which they need to consider as part of their work in both the commercial

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    title Sarah’s scribbles is a comic written by Sarah Andersen‚ a young American artist. She started making comics when she was in college getting her art degree. She finds inspiration from her daily life‚ and started making comics as a way to express her feelings. She likes to take her feelings about situations and turn it into joke that’s universally relatable for everyone. She depicts universal experiences many women face‚ covering topics such as: menstruation‚ capitalism‚ love‚ metal health‚

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    Howard Street Jewelry Accounting Case Study on Internal Controls 1. The main internal control concept the Levis ignored was segregation of duties. No one person should be responsible for all transactions from the beginning to the end. Betty had too many responsibilities that were interwoven and should have been performed by more than one person. She handled the cash that came in‚ maintained the cash receipts and the sales records. Another concept that this relates to is that no one

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    B1 – Ethics‚ fraud and internal control at Bern Fly Company The main purpose that a good internal control must fulfil is to protect the firm’s assets from fraud and theft. As we can see from the description of Bern Fly Company’s case‚ the internal control within the company leaves much to be desired. As it can be read in the case the salespersons get commission promptly after each order taken by their customers without any control to check if that order is real or only a fictitious one. This

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    and 4 1. Arthur Anderson’s audit partners’ sole concern was how much revenue could be generated‚ so the employees of Arthur Anderson paid little mind to the quality of the audits they did as long as they were making money. They turned their heads when generally accepted accounting principles were not being followed and hid the fact that Enron’s policies and internal controls were not good enough to protect its shareholders. 3. The prime motivation behind the decisions of Arthur Andersen’s

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    Metro. The students will read English materials only when asked. Normally‚ a person would feel bored when doing something by force and so the students will quickly get bored when reading any material they do not like. Apart from that‚ the cause of weak students master the English language is most of the students to look at the English language only as a subject. They learn English just to pass the exam. They also assume that the English language is a tedious and troublesome. So‚ they think it is

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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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