........................................ OTHER NAMES......................................................... STUDENT NUMBER................................................. MOCK FINAL EXAMINATION SEMESTER 2‚ 2009 PAPER A Unit: ACCG340 Auditing and Assurance Services Time Allowed: 2 hours plus 10 minutes reading time Total Number of Questions: FIVE (5) Instructions: Answer question 1 on the computer marking sheet provided. Answer questions 2 to 3 in the space provided in
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incentive (ROI). Incentive/pressure to commit fraud Fraudulent financial reporting Management compensation schemes Financial pressures to improve company’s earnings and balance sheet Personal wealth tied to either financial results or survival of company Defalcation (misappropriation of asset) Personal factors‚ severe financial considerations Addictions to gambling/drugs Opportunities to commit fraud Due to the complexities of the transactions Due to lack of control in place. For example‚ segregation
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II. Accounting and Auditing in the Philippines T his chapter presents an overview of Philippine accounting and auditing arrangements. It provides context for the following chapters on professional infrastructure‚ accounting and auditing standards‚ accounting and auditing training‚ and government budgeting and accounting arrangements. The chapter comprises eight sections‚ as follows: Part One: Accounting 1 – Introduction – identifies historical factors that have influenced accounting arrangements
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ON AUDITING 315 IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING THE RISKS OF MATERIAL MISSTATEMENT THROUGH UNDERSTANDING THE ENTITY AND ITS ENVIRONMENT (Effective for audits of financial statements for periods beginning on or after December 15‚ 2009) CONTENTS Paragraph Introduction Scope of this ISA .................................................................................. 1 Effective Date ....................................................................................... 2
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External Auditing – Week 4 discussion What do following risk categories mean: planned detection risk‚ inherent risk‚ control risk‚ acceptable audit risk? Can you give some examples? How do we as auditors deal with them? DETECTION RISK Detection risk is the risk that auditor’s substantive procedures will not detect a misstatement that exist in an account balance or class of transactions that could be material‚ individually or when aggregated with misstatements in other balances or classes.
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SARBANES-OXLEY ACT ACC 403- AUDITING PROFESSOR August 19‚ 2012 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was placed into effect July 2002; the act introduced major changes to the regulation of corporate governance and financial practice. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was named after Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael Oxley‚ who were the main architects that set a number of non-negotiable deadlines for compliance. The organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was one of the first non- government
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respect that the writer has chosen this topic: The impact of Internal auditing in the telecommunication industry with Vodafone Ghana Limited as the case study. 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Mautz and Sharaf (1961) defines auditing as a systematic process of objectivity; obtaining and evaluating evidence against assertion and established criteria and commence communicating the results to interested users. Internal auditing is an independent appraisal functions established within an organization
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LJB Company: Internal Controls LJB Company: Internal Controls Contents Introduction 3 Internal Control Requirements 2 Strengths and Recommendations 2 Violations 3 Conclusion 4 Works Cited 4 Introduction LJB Company has asked the accounting firm to evaluate their system of internal controls because of the plan to go public in the near future. The president wants to be aware of any new regulations required of his company if they go public. The current system of internal controls
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Auditing Chapter 2 and 3 Chapter MC 2 2.26 - 2.29 Q 65‚ 70(I) 2.26) Which of the following categories of principles is most closely related to gathering audit evidence? A. Performance 2.27) Which of the following is not related to ethical requirements of auditors? D. professional judgment 2.28) One of an accounting firm’s basic objectives is to provide professional services that conform to professional standards. Reasonable assurance of the achieving this objective can be obtained by the
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resigning or by reporting the situation to the firm’s board of directors or a governmental agency. b) What are the risks of continuing to work with the company? There are many risk involved with staying with the firm. If the caller decides to stay with the company and the bank finds out about the fraudulent entries‚ as the controller of the company‚ the caller would take most of the blame for allowing the fraud to occur even if she/he had nothing to do with the fraud. The caller could potential face
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