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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Solutions Manual to accompany Auditing: a practical approach by Jane Hamilton CHAPTER 1 Introduction and overview of auditing [pic] John Wiley & Sons Australia‚ Ltd 2010 Chapter 1 – Introduction and overview of auditing 1. What does ‘assurance’ mean in the financial reporting context? Who are the three parties relevant to an assurance engagement? An assurance engagement (or service) is defined as ‘an engagement in which an assurance
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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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Nigerian‚ or "419"‚ scams are one of the most common types of fraudulent email currently hitting inboxes. Nigerian scam messages can also arrive via fax or letter. The messages claim that your help is needed to access a large sum of money‚ usually many millions of dollars. The money that the message claims does not exist. Those who initiate a dialogue with the scammers by replying to a Nigerian scam message will eventually be asked for advance fees supposedly required to allow the deal to proceed
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Expectation Gap and Corporate Fraud: Is Public Opinion Reconcilable with Auditors’ Duties? Jeffrey Cohena‚ Yuan Dingb‚ Cédric Lesagec‚* and Hervé Stolowyc b Carroll School of Management at Boston College‚ USA China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS)‚ Shanghai‚ China c HEC Paris‚ France a This draft – October 28‚ 2010 – Please do not cite or circulate without permission – Comments welcome Acknowledgments. Cédric Lesage and Hervé Stolowy acknowledge the financial support of the
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Hoang Thi Thanh Ha – 13200154 Auditing Assignment 2: 1.What are the factors to consider Inherent Risk? Inherent risk is a measure of the auditor’s assessment of the likelihood that there are material misstatements in a segment before considering the effectiveness of internal control. Factors affecting assessment of inherent risk include: Nature of the client’s business : Industry practices Non-routine transactions Makeup of the population Audit experience : Results of previous audits Initial vs
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Audit Risk Model Summary First: Let’s think about each of the components of the audit risk model. The auditor selects the overall audit risk they are will to accept‚ assesses inherent and control risk at the account (or account group) level‚ and calculates planned detection risk at the account (or account group) level. Audit Risk (AR) is the probability that the auditor issues a clean opinion when the financial statements are materially misstated. Note that acceptable level of audit risk is
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Organizational Responsibility and Current Health Care Issues Paper - Health Care Fraud Roberta Roelofs HCS / 545 November 17‚ 2014 Michael Grossman Health care fraud is a current health care issue throughout the health care industry from hospitals to home care services. “The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that health care fraud accounts for at least three‚ but as much as ten percent of total health care expenditures”(Hubbell‚ 2006). Health care organizations
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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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more basic concepts in fraud deterrence and detection is the fraud triangle. The fraud triangle is also known as Cressey’s Triangle‚ or Cressey’s Fraud Triangle. Cressey’s Fraud Triangle gets its name from Donald Cressey. Cressey was one of the “nations leading experts on the sociology of crime”. He authored a few books including Other People’s Money‚ Theft of the Nation‚ and co-authored Principles of Criminology with Edwin H. Sutherland. Cressey is honored by many anti-fraud organizations‚ including
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