Campbell Soup Company 1. Identify legitimate business practices that corporate executives can use for the primary purpose of manipulating or “managing” their company’s reported operating results. Are such practices ethical? Defend your answer. Some examples of legitimate business practices that executives can use to manage their company’s reported operating results include: offering customers extended payment terms at the end of the a period to accelerate sales‚ recording generous reserves
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exposes the cash collection system to considerable risk (Millichamp and Taylor‚ 2008). These control weaknesses are detailed below along with the resulting potential for irregularities in the system. Failure to file cash invoices in numeric or date order makes it easy to “misfile” them and they could potentially be lost leading to bad debt write off. Failure to use a carbon copy process‚ if the invoices are raised manually‚ also exposes the council to risk of error because there is no guarantee the copy
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Audit case You are the engagement partner in a firm of chartered accountant and are reviewing the audit fire of a client ABC ltd. the audit manager has recommended that the audit option is qualified because he is in dispute with the directors of ABC ltd. The audit manager wishes the directors to create a large doubtful debts provision against a major debtor that is over six months old. The directors do not witch to alarm the public about the current liquidity problems of their major costumer because
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Unit 2 – Disposition of Toxicants Ch 5 – Absorption‚ Distribution‚ and Excretion of Toxicants Ch 7 - Toxicokinetics Chapter 5 Absorptions‚ Distribution‚ and Excretion of Toxicants © The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc‚ 2011 Factors Affecting Disposition • If fraction absorbed or rate absorbed is low‚ may never reach high enough concentration to cause toxicity • Concentrated in a tissue other than the target organ‚ thus decreasing toxicity • Biotransformation may result in formation of less toxic
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convincing. There are different levels of reliability of audit evidence‚ some providing more evidence than others. There are nine types of audit evidence : 1) Mathematical Recalculation 2) Inquiry 3) Re-performance 4) Analytical Procedures 5) Documentation (inspection of) 6) Confirmation 7) Observation 8) Physical Inspection of Assets 9) Scanning Nature of Evidence • Evidence is any information used by the auditor to determine whether the information being audited is stated
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[pic] ACCTG 312 SC 2012: Assignment 1 Current issues – scandals in auditing Introduction • For this assignment‚ you are required to research and report back on one of four well known scandals that involve auditors in some way. • It can be commenced after week 1 lectures are completed‚ so gives you a chance to get part of your semester’s work done early. It is due in week 3 (Thursday at 4 pm). • You will also be required to very briefly report to your tutorial group on one interesting
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9 Dilemma Six – Financial Interest in a Client 10 Dilemma Seven – Business relations with audit clients 11 Dilemma Eight - Policies and Procedures 12 Appendix 1 – Accounting services - dos and don’ts 13 Appendix 2 – Accounting services - examples of threats and safeguards 14 Appendix 3 – Non-audit services – sample audit work paper Appendix 4 – Sample audit planning letter 16 26 Appendix 5 – Long association with audit client‚ sample audit work paper 29 2 Dilemma
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92When audit risk is at an appropriately low level 83The possibility that the auditors may unknowingly fail to appropriately modify their opinion on financial statements that are materially misstated 49Investigate the identities and reputations of the client’s directors‚ officers‚ and major stockholders 51The reputation of management 81The company’s financial strength and credit rating. 85Make inquiries of the client’s banker‚ legal counsel‚ and predecessor auditor. 26Determine that independence
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Study Guide Chapter 4 Government by the People 2011 ed. Magleby‚ et al. 1. Define the terms political culture and social capital. [See the definition of social capital in the side bar in addition to what is said in body of the text.] Pg. 106 Political Culture: The widely shared beliefs‚ values‚ and norms about how citizens relate to government and to one another. Social Capital: Democratic and civil habits of discussion‚ compromise‚ and respect for differences‚ which grow out of participation
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References: Cheeseman‚ H. R. (2010). Chapter 33: Equal opportunity in Employment. Business law: Legal environment‚ online commerce‚ business ethics‚ and international issues (7th ed.). Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) FY 2011. (2012‚ July). Annual Report to Congress
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