FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION - Gene Kranz‟s leadership in movie < Apollo 13> INTRODUCTION Apollo 13‚ the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard‚ is the true story of Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert‚ a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. Apollo 13 Mission in 1970 was planning to land on the moon as a routine‚ but after astronauts found oxygen tank‟s explosion and leaking‚ this routine mission to the moon suddenly
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INTRODUCTION TO AUDITING 1. WHAT IS AN AUDIT An audit is an independent examination of the financial statements of an entity in order to enable the auditor to express an opinion as to whether it gives a true and fair opinion and if it has been properly prepared in accordance with the applicable reporting framework. 2. Under the Companies Act‚ Cap. 50‚ private limited companies that satisfy the following conditions are not required to have an audit: a) number of shareholders
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Market failure happens – a situation in which economic efficiency has not been achieved because of imperfections in the market mechanism. These market failures consists of ; Externalities‚ public goods‚ merit goods‚ business fluctuations‚ legal system‚ re distribution of income..as clearly explained below. Business fluctuations are the ups and downs in overall business activity as evidenced by changes in national income‚ employment and prices. It is normal that a country passes through a recession
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WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BUSINESS and ECONOMICS Elissaveta Gourova‚ Albena Antonova‚ Yanka Todorova Knowledge audit concepts‚ processes and practice ELISSAVETA GOUROVA Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Sofia University 125‚ Tzarigradsko shosse Blvd.‚ bl. 2‚ Sofia BULGARIA elis@fmi.uni-sofia.bg http://www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg ALBENA ANTONOVA Centre for Information Society Technologies Sofia University 125‚ Tzarigradsko shosse Blvd. bl. 2 fl. 3 BULGARIA a_antonova@fmi.uni-sofia.bg http://www-it
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A. Define audit risk. Audit risk is the risk that the auditors may unknowingly fail to appropriately modify their opinion on financial statements that are materially misstated. B. Describe its components of inherent risk‚ control risk‚ and detection risk. The risk of material misstatement may be separated into two components-inherent risk and control risk. Both inherent risk and control risk exist independently of the audit of financial statements‚ or in other words‚ the risk of misstatement
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Bagranoff and Henry article‚ cited in footnote 3‚ and the list of GAS in the Sayana article‚ cited in footnote 1. Experts say that generalized audit software (GAS) is the most common computer-assisted audit tool (CAAT) used in recent years. There are many reasons today for IT auditors to use a GAS‚ but to quote an article from this Journal‚ "Performing audits without using information technology is hardly an option."1 This article will inform IT auditors of the profitable return on learning and using
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succeed‚ try and try again” Failure is often a better teacher in life than success. Because we go through so many things in life‚ both good and bad‚ we have to learn from our mistakes and hope we won’t have to go through them again. One may consider success as being a major influence on whom we are to date‚ but in all reality it’s our own failures that help us learn‚ encourages us to keep going‚ and prepares us for future failures that are bound to happen. Failure is by far the only way we can
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external financial statement audits. 1. What is the purpose of a financial statement audit? a. To confirm the accuracy of management’s financial statements. b. To provide assurance that the audited entity is financially sound. c. To express an opinion on the fairness of the financial statements. d. To provide assurance that fraudulent activities have not occurred. 2. Information risk arises from which of the following situations? a. Adverse selection threats. b. Audit risk‚ inherent risk‚ control
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Luxury stores audit Gucci and Celine stores‚ Russian experience Monaco 2012 INTRODUCTION Monaco is a small country‚ but well known all over the world. All over the world it is known as a place of luxury. Every year a lot of tourists visit Monaco to have a good vacation visiting casinos‚ luxury restaurants and off course to do a shopping in a most known‚ luxury brands. In Monaco you can find a lot of different luxury boutiques for every taste; you can find everything from luxury cars to a
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or they will fail. Failure leaves the students with two options; the students will either learn from their mistakes and work harder to graduate or they will become hopeless and believe they will never graduate. These two reactions to failure have been studied by Dr. Carol Dweck and she gave them the names growth mindset and fixed mindset respectively. Dr. Carol Dweck believes that the successful people in life utilize the growth mindset strategy in order to overcome failure. The growth
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