Definitions (2) 1. An examination and verification of a company’s financial and accounting records and supporting documents by a professional‚ such as a Certified Public Accountant. 2. An audit is an IRS examination of an individual or corporation’s tax return‚ to verify its accuracy. There are three types of audits: correspondence audits (the IRS mails a request for additional information)‚ office audits (an interview is conducted at a local IRS office)‚ and field audits (an interview is conducted
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Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime The CEO and CFO of a Swiss security systems company named Tyco‚ stole 150 million dollars from their company before being caught in 2002. At the height of the scandal‚ the CEO threw a 2 million dollar birthday party for his wife on a private island with guest performer Jimmy Buffet. After being caught‚ the CEO and CFO were sentenced to 8-25 years in prison and Tyco had to repay its investors 2.92 billion dollars (The
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Chapter 8 Audit Planning and Analytical Procedures PLANNING Why auditor should properly plan engagements: a. To enable the auditor to obtain sufficient appropriate evidence for the circumstances b. To help keep audit costs reasonable c. To avoid misunderstanding with the clients Acceptable Audit Risk is a measure of how willing the auditor is to accept that the F/S may be materially misstated after the audit is completed and an unqualified opinion has been issued. When auditor decides on a lower
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words all describing the same thing‚ FRAUD. Fraud affects the company‚ the consumers and it puts the entire economy at risk. According to the Huffington Post the top scandals of all time produced losses due to fraud totaling over one hundred and sixty nine BILLION dollars. ("The biggest accounting‚" 2010) Upon first glance the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 which was signed into law on July 30th 2002 seemed like a great policy geared towards preventing fraud. Investors as well as the general public
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Corporate Fraud I. Introductions a. Fraud in the accounting environment is on the increase. b. Fraud takes place in different forms in the accounting environment. II. The growing risk of fraud and corruption a. Local problems‚ global pain b. Awareness is crucial c. Tailoring efforts to avert damage III. Preventing Fraud a. Background checks and enhanced due diligence b. Monitoring and evaluating preventive controls c. Continuous controls monitoring IV. Can we eliminate fraud and corruption
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Page 1 of 15 CEBU CPAR CENTER Mandaue City‚ Cebu AUDITING THEORY AUDITING IN A COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CIS) ENVIRONMENT Related PSAs/PAPSs: PSA 401; PAPS 1001‚ 1002‚ 1003‚ 1008 and 1009 PSA 401 – Auditing in a Computer Information Systems (CIS) Environment 1. Which statement is incorrect when auditing in a CIS environment? a. A CIS environment exists when a computer of any type or size is involved in the processing by the entity of financial information of significance to the audit
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Week 12 - Part A: Answer the below questions from chapter 15: 1. Describe the differences between statistical and non-statistical sampling in terms of (1) the sample selection methods used‚ and (2) quantification of sampling risk. Ans: Nonstatistical sampling differs from statistical sampling in that non-probabilistic sampling can be used for the former but not the latter. In addition‚ sampling risk can be quantified when using statistical sampling but not when using nonstatistical sampling
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Unit 11639 Assessment Apply Consumer legislation to a given fact situation Navi Student ID: Due Date: 5th Aug 2013 Assessment Part 1: Apply selected provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1986 to a given fact situation. 1a) The fair trading act in 1986 defend consumers by prohibiting dishonest or deceptive conduct in trade. It requires that all trading activities are based on right and true information. In this case‚ under the defences available in the act‚ he was not
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Control risk The auditor obtains an understanding of the design and implementation of internal Control to make a preliminary assessment of control risk as part of the auditor’s overall Assessment of the risk of material misstatements. The auditor uses this preliminary assessment of control risk to plan the audit for each material class of transactions. However‚ in some instances the auditor may learn that the control deficiencies are significant such that the client’s financial statements may
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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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