GENERAL PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ROLE OF EXTERNAL AUDIT. The nature of accounting is changing with specific demands in the market. Today‚ the SME clients require specific information and thus there have been a positivist-accounting approach while preparing accounting statements. One step in this positivist approach is where the general purpose financial statements are becoming deregulated and let market forces control the quality of the general purpose financial statement. The deregulation
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1. Explain why decisions about acceptable audit risk‚ inherent risk‚ the preliminary judgement about materiality‚ and performance materiality should be made early in the audit during the planning phase. The purpose of assessing risks early is to help auditor plan the audit by deciding which parts of the audit to emphasize and the extent of testing. It helps auditors to understand the nature‚ timing‚ extent of the accounts‚ therefore plan a right procedure and the appropriate evidence to accumulate
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underrecorded income earned‚ we could consider this as a financial reporting fraud. The auditor would have identified the risk primarily through analysis of financial results and review of operational procedures. b) The auditor should pay close attention to the changes of company’s financial result and analyze those changes in time to see if they are reasonable. Most auditors should have detected this kind of material misstatement in company’s financial results‚ because this defalcation is caused by a personal
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A. Identify and briefly explain three functions of religion (9 marks) Marxism believes it acts as the ‘opium for the exploited working class people’. Religion would cushion the pain of oppression and exploitation in unequal societies such as in a capitalist society. It legitimized and maintained the power of the ruling class – helps to maintain the status quo by preventing the less powerful from changing things. Feminists see religion as a conservative force because it acts as an ideology that legitimates
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Audit Quality and Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The
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Financial Returns For High Education When I think about law enforcement‚ I picture an ideal department in which they select officers that hold at least a two-year degree and the peace officers standards training certificate (POST). Studies from research in recent years show that education seems to be a cornerstone to a better police officer in regards to strong work ethics and a better decision-making process. So I pose this question: will a higher education benefit police officers and their departments
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Fred Stern /Ultramares When assessing audit risk‚ should auditors consider the type and number of third parties that may ultimately rely on the client’s financial statements? Should auditors insist that audit engagement letters identify the third parties to whom the client intends to distribute the audited financial statements? Would this practice eliminate auditors’ legal liability to nonprivity parties not mentioned in engagement letters? During an audit it is the auditors responsibility to give
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FINANCIAL RATIOS AND THE STATE OF HEALTH OF NIGERIAN BANKS Onyeiwu Charles University of Lagos‚ Lagos State‚ Nigeria Email: chasonyeiwu@yahoo.com Tel: 2348023206015. And Aliemeke Goodluck Guarranty Trust Bank Plc‚ Nigeria Email:goodluck.aliemeke@gtbank.com Abstract
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instructor website at www.wiley.com/college/weirich. Other excellent sources of longer and more detailed cases include the Deloitte Trueblood cases and cases provided by various other firms. Topical Index of Student Cases INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING Case 1: Reporting acquisition and repayment transactions in the Statement of Cash Flows Case 2: Recording a forfeited payment Case 3: Revenue and expense recognition associated extended warranties Case 4: Accounting for “due on demand” note payable
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Appendix A 2011 Financial Report Financial Review Pfizer Inc. and Subsidiary Companies INTRODUCTION Our Financial Review is provided to assist readers in understanding the results of operations‚ financial condition and cash flows of Pfizer Inc. (the Company). It should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. The discussion in this Financial Review contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties
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