201037076 Puriza U. Topic: Using technology to improve internal audit communications in the Banking Sector Background Internal auditing has come a long way over the last two or three decades. In the past‚ internal auditing was seen as a mechanism to double-check the thousands of financial transactions that were posted to the accounts each week. Today an internal auditor facilitates the development of suitable controls as part of a wider risk strategy‚ and provides assurances on the reliability
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Ethical Dilemmas for Auditors Discussion Paper May 2006 1 The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland Ethical Dilemmas for Auditors Dilemma One – Non-Audit Services 3 Dilemma Two – Fee Levels 6 Dilemma Three – Ethics Partner 7 Dilemma Four – Long Association with the Audit Client 8 Dilemma Five – Commencement in Practice 9 Dilemma Six – Financial Interest in a Client 10 Dilemma Seven – Business relations with audit clients 11 Dilemma
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The Ambitious Payroll Manager Ardyth Power Kaplan University Fraud Examination‚ AC555 Professor Jacquelyne Lewis‚ Ph. D. May 6‚ 2012 In this case‚ Dena Brenner used payroll schemes to be successful of committing fraud against International Agricultural Seed (IAS). Dena used a former employee‚ by reactivating this employee in the company’s payroll system and changing the account number to direct the payroll funds to go to. The bank account number she used was her own bank
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Abstract Financial audit is about the opinion expressed by auditor with all material respects and any relevant legislation for instance corporation act 2001. A good financial audit should be provided with true and fair view. It is responsible for auditors to provide a truth and fairness opinion as well as information involved in a financial report (MORONEY‚ CSMPBRLL & HAMILTON 2011). Pre-consideration of develop audit strategy is the assessments of materiality‚ audit risk (the relationship
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RESEARCH MANUAL INTRODUCTION Research is an ORGANISED and SYSTEMATIC way of FINDING ANSWERS to QUESTIONS. SYSTEMATIC because there is a definite set of procedures and steps which you follow. There are certain things in the research process‚ which are always done in order to get the most accurate results. ORAGNISED in that there is a structure or a method in going about doing research. It is a planned procedure‚ not a spontaneous one. It is focused and limited to a specific scope. FINDING
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conclusions. Audit Evidence Decisions • A major decision facing every auditor is determining the appropriate types and amounts of evidence to accumulate to be satisfied that financial statements are fairly stated and the internal control system is effective. • This judgment is important because of the prohibitive cost of examining and evaluating all available evidence. • The auditor’s decisions on evidence accumulation can be broken down into the following four sub-decisions:
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Auditing Chapter 3 Homework 3-27 a. These are the items that should be included in the auditor’s report: 1. Normal receivable confirmation procedures‚ although not used‚ should not be listed here since it was not material‚ and the auditor was able to gain a satisfactory opinion from the client’s use of them. 2. The change in the accounting method for long-term construction doesn’t need to be included here since it is discussed in the footnotes. 3. Lawsuits are normally included
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In recent years‚ as the collapse of some renowned companies‚ the issue of audit independence turns to be more and more concerned by the international regulators. Independence is the cornerstone of the auditing profession‚ and auditor’s opinion is suspect if lack of independence. However‚ in some circumstances‚ some potential threats of audit independence would be generated as jointly provision of non-audit and audit services to the audit client. Although it will create threats to independence‚ some
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Information (FTI) By Proactive Auditing Introduction The traditional way to audit a system involves identifying issues that have already occurred‚ then reviewing audit logs to determine which relevant events are of a serious nature. While this "after the fact" or “passive” auditing is an important tool in data security‚ an auditing program requires significant resources in people‚ process and technology to effectively identify potential incidents in a timely manner. Auditing management should be
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