profile failures of financial services firms‚ the issues about ‘audit expectation gap’ have never been more important. Though it would take an enormous amount of effort to address these issues‚ I will argue that tremendous amounts could be done in order to close the gap down. In this essay I will discuss some of these issues and in particular the strategies to reduce the gap. Definitions Various definitions have been proposed for the audit expectation gap. Humphrey‚ Moizer and Turley (1992)‚ suggest
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particular question‚ no credit will be given for that question. 1. Which of the following is not a Sarbanes-Oxley requirement for audit committees? A. The audit committee should view itself as the “client” of the external auditor. B. The audit committee must be chaired by the chair of the board of directors. C. Audit committee members must be financially literate. D. Audit committee members must be outside directors. 2. There are several reasons why users of information desire assurance services
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3. a) Three parties that auditors might be held liable for negligence are : 1. Liability to client (Better Production & Co) 2. Liability to third party who use the information (Usahasama City Bank) 3. Liability to the foreseen user (who rely on the auditor’s financial statement) b) No. Aiman & Co can not be held liable to Usahasama & Co. The only action available for financial loss caused by a false financial statement was in the tort of deceit. In order to succeed‚ the claimant (Usahasama)
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& Weisserman LLP has been appointed as the new auditor of the public company Dollarama Inc. for the current fiscal year-end as at January 29‚ 2012. Please find in the following pages a report on the audit plan that was used to conduct our audit for the year ended January 29‚ 2012. Even though the audit of 2012 was performed by PWC‚ the assumption used for this project was that our firm was the new auditor for 2012. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Yours Sincerely
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mentioned in the case study above‚ Kellogg is going through a challenging time. Perform an external audit on Kellogg. Discuss the opportunities and threats facing the company. Answer Perform an external audit on Kellogg‚ will gain the team with better understanding of the firm industry‚ competitors and markets. It should involve as many managers and employees as possible. Before perform the audit‚ Kellogg must try to gather as much as possible on competitive intelligence and information about
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P5 Explain the legal and ethical issues in relation to the use of business information Definition: Ethics concern an individual’s moral judgments about right and wrong. Explanation: Business information belongs to the business owner and any kind of use of the business related information should be used as per the company policy. There are legal consequences in breaking the rules (code of conduct & code of practice). Staff member needs to use his/her ethical judgement to decide what is
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Training Material on Internal Auditing Internal Auditing Handbook 1 Session 1 – External Audit........................................................................5 1.1 Definition and Objective.....................................................................5 1.2 Responsibilities of External Audit ......................................................5 1.3 Scope of the Audit .............................................................................6 1.4 Auditor’s Report Basic
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corporate social responsibility- ‚ they are two dimensions: • The organizational level • The societal level The case of Nike as famous corporate that faced the risk of losing its reputation in the early 1990’s will witness and serve here as example to illustrate every step and to explain the two level of learning from where a company will end up by developing a corporate social responsibility 1° the organizational level On this dimension‚ the company usually needs to pass through five steps
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Introduction: Audit emerges because society needed. Auditing has been a regular feature of organized human activity from the earliest times. Indeed evidence suggests that formal audit procedures existed in the economic activities of the most of the early civilization. With the advancement of development‚ audit emerges as a separate discipline & contributes to the economic & social advancement. Audits serve a vital economic purpose and play an important role in serving the public interest to strengthen
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDIT Introduction An information technology audit‚ or information systems audit‚ is an examination of the controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure. IT auditing is a branch of general auditing concerned with governance (control) of information and communications technologies (computers). IT auditors primarily study computer systems and networks from the point of view of examining the effectiveness of their technical and procedural controls to minimise risks
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