Auditing Concepts ZZZZ Best Company‚ Inc Case Solutions: 1. A review is performed to obtain a reasonable basis for providing limited assurance that the client’s financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. An independent audit is designed to provide a reasonable basis for expressing an opinion concerning whether or not a client’s financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
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Auditing Theory 1. A control which relates to all parts of the EDP system is called a(n) a. Systems control c. Applications control b. General control d. Universal control 2. Which of the following is not an output control? a. Proper authorization of transaction b. Control totals c. Check digits d. Adequate documents 3. Should the auditor feel‚ after obtaining an understanding of the EDP internal control structure‚ that
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ch02 Student: 1. Auditors may be independent in fact but not independent in appearance. True False 2. Auditing Standards issued by the PCAOB are the sole source of guidance for audits of public entities. True False 3. Attestation standards provide guidance for a wide variety of engagements different in scope than an audit. True False 4. Generally accepted auditing standards must be followed on all audit engagements. True False 5. The reporting principle relates to a firm’s
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1.26 Value of auditing Required: Would you obtain an audit for this company? Explain the reasons for your decision. Yes‚ audits exist because of regulatory mandate (required by government). There are three theories which propose reasons why demand for audits might exist without regulatory mandate: 1. Agency theory (The focus of the agency demand for auditing is more related to the stewardship role of accounting- which is more an examination of what has happened.) The separation of ownership
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International Accounting – Chapter 1 1. Explain why an individual investor might want to invest in an international growth fund. An individual investor might want to invest in an international growth fund if they are seeking to become more diversified. During times when the US stock market is poorly performing‚ it is likely that its foreign counterparts will be doing well because the two markets often have an inverse relationship. An investor might also want to invest in an international growth
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Theresa Golding BA 418 – Auditing Dr. Charles Pineno April 25‚ 2010 PART 1: “Small Firms May Face Audit Music” (published in The Wall Street Journal on April 19‚ 2007) addresses the ending of the delay in applying portions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to smaller companies. At the time of the article‚ some 6‚000 smaller public companies had yet to be required to “make an annual assessment of their internal financial-reporting controls with further review by the company’s outside auditor of
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Chapter 5 18. a. They should use the resistance of meeting auditing standards and contributory neglegence. Stuart Supply Company management is responsible for the fraud. The fraud was complicated and difficult to discover‚ but the steps recommended by Lauren Yost & Co made it possible. The president of Stuart Supply Company ignored the proposal to count the inventory on the same day‚ and was therefore responsible to breakdown of detecting the fraud due to his decision. Luckily‚ Lauren Yost & Co
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internal auditors should provide assurance and consulting on – the scope of internal auditing (governance‚ risk management and control processes). Standard 2100 is one such injunction – “The internal audit activity must evaluate and contribute to the improvement of governance‚ risk management‚ and control processes using a systematic and disciplined approach.” What are these processes that internal auditing has to evaluate and contribute to the improvement of? The best way to describe them
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weren’t for the suggestion made by Yost. As you can see‚ the president of the company had a hand in covering it up based on the statement released by the company. b. This is actually quite simple. First‚ privity of contract. Privity of contract means that the contract only applys to the people involved with contract‚ thus making the bank an innocent third party. The second defense is that Yost followed the proper auditing standards when conducting an audit. This means that if Yost were to find nothing
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questions. Some of the relevant questions that audit committee members should ask the external auditor include all of the following except: A) How do you assess the competence of company personnel engaged in financial reporting and related processes? B) What are the most significant risks to financial reporting at this company? C) What level of assurance do your procedures provide with respect to the annual financial statements? D) How do you calculate materiality and what is your materiality threshold
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