for $913 million. In buying Burts Bee’s Clorox is promising to go green. This was Clorox’s start in buying out other green companies to help them achieve their goal in going completely green. Mr. Shavitz and Ms. Quimby the original owners of Burt’s Bees had a huge fall out that began in the late 1990’s which has been going on ever since. (1) The reason that Clorox was willing to pay almost $1 Billion for Burts Bee’s because they see a big opportunity in the market to make their products green.
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for up to a mile. Most bees only attack with 10-20 bees but Africanized Honey Bees swarm with hundreds of bees. Their aggressiveness gives them the nickname “Killer Bees”. Africanized Honey Bees are a hybrid between European and African bee subspecies. They were inadvertently released into Brazil in the early 1950s. Since then‚ they have spread south to Northern Argentina and north to North America and throughout south and Central America. This widely migrated species of bees has caused a threat to
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in the world although few are as important as the honey bee. Honey bees are one of the most important pollinators in the world. Dancing is a form of communication exclusively used by honey bees. Although‚ bees are not only here to get jiggy. Each year‚ the bees’ pollination work is equivalent to $14 billion dollars in the United States alone. On a global scale‚ these bees would make around $215 billion dollars. Without Honey Bees‚ some of our most important crops would take a devastating loss in
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Interim An audit which conducted in between the two annual audits with a view to find out interim profits to enable the company to declare an interim dividend is known as Interim Audit. It is a kind of audit which is conducted between the two periodical or balance sheet audits. Objectives Of Interim Audit 1. To know profit or loss of interim period. 2. To distribute interim dividend. 3. To get loan on the basis of interim account. 4. To get information about the financial position
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which exceeds materiality of $50‚000. c. The auditor should either propose an audit adjustment so that the unadjusted statement amount is less than materiality‚ and/or perform more testing to obtain a better estimate of the population misstatements. The additional testing will likely focus on receivables and inventory because they have the largest estimated misstatements. 9-28 a. The following terms are audit planning decisions requiring professional judgment: Preliminary judgment about materiality
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1. Does Burt’s Bees’ pricing strategy truly differentiate it form the competition? (Armstrong & Kolter‚ 2013) Burt’s Bees’ pricing strategy does differentiate themselves from the competition. With them using 99% majority of natural resources‚ that sets them away from the competition already. (Armstrong & Kolter‚ 2013) But with the high pricing marketing strategy they propose‚ it creates a higher level of quality into the consumer’s eyes. Having both of these attributes to there products
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Fundamental concepts of f/s audit Materiality misstatement of accounting information. is a matter of professional judgment Audit risk The auditor expresses an inappropriate audit opinion when the financial statements are materially misstated‚ Evidence (more than “per discussion with client) Major phrases of audit: Client acceptance/continuance; Preliminary engagement activities; Establish materiality and assess risks; Plan the audit ;Consider and audit internal control; Audit business processes and
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Q1 - What is the relationship between the risk assessment process and the collection of audit evidence? The risk assessment process happens at the very beginning of the engagement and is to determine the level of risk present in the company. The risk assessment phase is when the auditor assess the client’s situation‚ conducts an independence threat analysis and decides whether to accept the client or not. The risk assessment is influenced by various factors such as the degree to which external
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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 factor. c) We should forecast its audit procedure in order to eliminate the risks in audit progress. Thus‚ control procedure would have been effective in preventing or detecting the defalcation could have been a separation of duties. 2. a) Since the purchasing agent usually set up wrong purchase orders to factious
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The Demand for Audit and Other Assurance Services O ssu a S s Chapter 1 ©2012 Prentice Hall Business Publishing‚ Auditing 14/e‚ Arens/Elder/Beasley Arens/Elder/Beasley 1-1 SarbanesSarbanes-Oxley Act Enron WorldCom The Act established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. It also requires auditors to report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. ©2012 Prentice Hall Business Publishing‚ Auditing 14/e‚ Arens/Elder/Beasley Arens/Elder/Beasley 1-2
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