7102AFE Corporate Auditing Lecture 2: Audit quality and ethics (Chapter 3‚ Arens et al) Department of Accounting‚ Finance & Economics 1 Audit quality and corporate governance Audit quality: » How well an audit detects and reports material misstatements » Detection reflects auditor competence » Reporting reflects ethics or auditor integrity Regulatory mechanisms in Australia emphasise: » Accountability and transparency Corporate governance: » Describes the control and direction of corporations
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reporting and internal governance standard of public companies. Ethics Issues The first issue is the lack of independence of the board of directors and their breach of fiduciary duty. The Board of Directors has the legal and ethical duty of monitoring the company’s management on behalf of the shareholders. The members should remain independent and should always examine the company’s operations with great care. In Enron’s case‚ the Board of Directors was comprised of members who were too close
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Ethics Case Study Merck & Company invested millions of dollars to develop a treatment for river blindness‚ a disease of the developing world that has infected 18 million people and poses a risk for 127 million people. River blindness is caused by the bite of black flies that deposit larvae of a parasite under the skin of their victims. When the larvae mature into adult worms‚ the adults reproduce millions of the immature forms of the parasites that migrate throughout the tissues of the body causing
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2. Which predictors are most strongly related to each of the outcome measures? Table 3.1 Interview Score and Promotion Potential: Higher interviews scores are associated with greater promotion potential for the applicant. Lower interviews scores are associated with lower promotion potential for the applicant. Table 3.2 Between Retail Knowledge and Promotion Potential: More retail knowledge is associated with higher promotion potential. Less retail knowledge is associated with lower promotion
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Unilever in Brazil- Marketing plan for low-income consumers in the Northeast of Brazil This report analyses Unilever Brazil and provides a full marketing plan for the expansion of Unilever into the northeast of Brazil. First‚ a situational analysis is performed‚ followed by a strategic analysis and final a market and 4Ps analysis of the strategic recommendation. 1. Situational Analysis Unilever Brazil In the section an analysis of the market facing Unilever is preformed that includes an assessment
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INDIVIDUAL WORK WEEK TWO-CASE STUDY BY SHELLY DAVIS Identify what you consider to be potentially unethical. Why do you think it is not ethical? I believe Daryl’s decision to have the secretary and the market research interns to work on his book are unethical. The book that Daryl is supposed to be writing for one isn’t from his own words or his own research. He’s using the interns to look up information‚ having them use the company’s time and money to do research on a book that is basically
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Entrepreneurship Professor Ron Adner 4i Framework Airbus A380 – Big enough for Innovation? • Do Young KIM • Guillaume RIGOIGNE • Jacky LU • Jae Sung CHOI • Ji Won LEE • Sampo VEHKAOJA Introduction Airbus decided in December 2000 to proceed with 555-seat super-jumbo jets in head-to-head competition with Boeing’s 747 for the first time. Before the A380 project‚ both Airbus and Boeing had focused on cornering the Very Large Aircraft or VLA market. Airbus and Boeing had worked together on a study
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Issue 4: Appropriate for Flat Cargo Berhad to include executive director as a member of audit committee? Do any member of FCB audit committee was the member of any accounting association or body? According to paragraph 15.26 of the listing requirements‚ all listing company in Malaysia should adopt the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance (CODE) in which codifies the principles and best practices of good governance and recommends optimal governance structures and internal processes. Audit committees
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Paula Valencia Case 4 Westminster Company LOG 215-001 Brian Lux Case Summary Westminster Company is a family-owned pharmaceutical supply business established in 1923. The company has being among the largest producers of consumers health products and brand recognition all the over the world. Westminster has regional offices in the Pacific Rim‚ Latin America‚ and Europe which operated under decentralized management‚ maintaining unique and independent companies. In today’s world‚ Westminster Company
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McDonald‚ Gael 2007-03‚ Business ethics and the evolution of corporate responsibility‚ Chartered accountants journal‚ vol. 86‚ no. 2‚ pp. 12-14. Available from Deakin Research Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30024088 Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. Copyright : 2007‚ Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand ETHICS Business ethics and the evolution of corporate responsibility What does the term ‘business ethics’ really mean in today’s business
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