Strategic Audit for iRobot Corporation Case Study I. CurrentSituation A. CurrentPerformance iRobot designs and builds robots that make a difference in the home‚ field and workplace. iRobot was founded in 1990 in Delaware‚ Massachusetts and it was the first company to introduce robots into the life of the household and make the robots part of their daily life. In comparison to the other products‚ home products were the most successful ones. Some of the iRobot’s products are: Roomba
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Gathering Evidence Amber Zamora ENG101 September 21‚ 2013 Melissa Ortiz Week 2: Assignment 2 – Gathering Evidence and Evaluating Resources Example of evaluating a source: Subject 1: Gun control attitudes in the United States. Source: Celinska‚ K. (2007). Individualism and collectivism in america: The case of gun ownership and attitudes toward gun control. Sociological Perspectives‚ 50(2)‚ 229-247. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/213988090
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AUTOMATED ACCOUNTING Automated accounting is an approach to maintaining up-to-date accounting records with the use of accounting software. This software is often configured to allow for easy cross posting of receivable and payable‚ eliminating the need to enter multiple posting in order to keep accounting record in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles. Accounting as it exists today may be viewed as a system of assumptions‚ doctrines‚ tenets‚ and conventions‚ all encompassed
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Marianne Ojo. (2009)‚ Oxford Brookes University. The overall purpose of this article is to be highlighted is why the external auditor is such an important tool in corporate governance. Corporate governance is the system of rules‚ practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled. It is basically needed to balance the interest of the stakeholders in a company. Meanwhile‚ the external auditor is needed to make sure that the company follow the GAAP‚ checking the accounting record
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THE MARKETING AUDIT PROCESS How is a marketing Audit conducted? We recommend that the following simple three-step procedure be followed when carrying out a marketing audit. 1. Setting the Objectives and Scope The first step calls for a meeting between the student (the auditor) and a company officer(s) to explore the nature of the marketing operations and the potential value of the marketing audit. If the company officer is convinced of the potential benefits of the marketing audit‚ he and the
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Auditing procedures: Five assertions: 1. Occurrence: Define: transactions and events that have been recorded have occurred and pertain to the entity. Explain: sales and purchases shown in the income statement belong to the company and are real‚ that is they actually took place. 2. Completeness: Define: all transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded. Explain: all the individual transactions making up the balances in the income statement are recorded; no sales
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Literature Review WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT Every business needs funds for two purposes for its establishment and to carry out its day-to-day operations. Long terms funds are required to create production facilities through purchase of fixed assets such as plant and machinery‚ land‚ building‚ etc. Investments in these assets represent that part of firm’s capital which is blocked on permanent or fixed basis and is called fixed capital. Funds are also needed for short-term purpose for the purchase
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND MANAGEMENT What is an Organization? An organization is a collection of people who work together to achieve individual and organizational goals. What is Organizational Behavior? Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of factors that affect how individuals and groups act in organizations and how organizations manage their environments What is Management? Management is the process of planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling an organization’s human
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Audit Quality and Audit Firm Size: Revisited by Dan A. Simunic The University of British Columbia December‚ 2003 Background: 1. Audit quality is an important element of corporate governance – although it’s unclear whether audit quality and other aspects of corporate governance (e.g. director knowledge and independence) are fundamentally complements or substitutes. 2. Notion that audit quality varies systematically across classes of audit firms (now Big 4 vs. non-Big 4) has been
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1. The ethical questions raised relate to the partner’s independence. He cannot be fully independent according to their professional code of conduct if he is maintaining a secret payroll for the client. He is essentially perpetrating a fraud on behalf of the client. It does not matter that PTL was not an organization registered with the SEC; the partner still has to follow the professional code of conduct that is integral to his profession and the public’s trust in it. 2. There are numerous procedures
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