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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Bradley sent me a copy of his test of controls work that he did on sales transactions. (Please tell him to send his work to you‚ rather than me.) Based on what Bradley found‚ there looks to be some serious problems in Sales and A/R. You need to write a memo identifying and explaining the significance of the qualitative features indicated by these deviations. Some things you may want to think about: * If the control performance were uniform for the year‚ the deviations would be evenly distributed
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one 1. Choose a scenario from the list provided separately 2. Choose a national mission to address 3. Write your policy memorandum 4. Make sure that your policy memorandum is consistent with the submission guidelines below 5. Submit your memo Step 1: Choose a scenario Students should write amemorandum on one of the government national missions on climate change. (Provided in the separate document) Step 2: Choose a national mission to address The national missions
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MEMO TO: Darlene Wardlaw FROM: Bradley Crumpler DATE: September 20‚ 2014 RE: Staffing Memo for the Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. audit for 12/31/2014 After reviewing last year’s (2013) 10-K filing with the SEC‚ the board of directors’ minutes‚ and other documents pertaining to Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. here is our initial recommendation for staffing requirements: Audit engagement partner * Audit manager * It audit specialist Tax partner Quality assurance partner Legal specialist Audit Staff * Audit Engagement
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along with the further clarification on the cost of capital using DCF approach. The cost of capital is a term used in the field of financial investment to refer to the cost of a company’s funds‚ both debt and equity‚ or from an investors’ point of view‚ the shareholders required return on a portfolio of a company’s existing securities. It is used to evaluate new projects of a company as it is the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company‚ thus setting a benchmark that
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Services divisions. The hurdle rate is the cost of capital based on an estimate of the corporation’s WACC. 2. Please estimate the segment WACCs for Teletech (see the worksheet in case Exhibit 1). As you do this‚ carefully note the points of judgment in the calculation. Corporate Telecommunications Products & Systems MV asset weights 100% 75% 25% Bond rating A-/BBB+ A BB Pretax cost of debt 5.88% 5.74% 7.47% Tax rate 40% 40% 40% After-tax cost of debt 3.53% 3.44% 4.48% Equity beta
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Case memo (Kat) 1. Introduction: Three graduates committed to exploring opportunities in entrepreneurship. They formed on-line retail seasonal holiday merchandise business. Kristin‚ one of the team members who had the financial background‚ gave several assumptions in terms of company’s operation cost for company’s additional profitability. A projected Income Statement gave the group confidence and they were committed to growing volume to generate a positive gross margin. But problems in cost calculation
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Memo Paper This essay is on how one would go about writing a formal memo. You must start with the date‚ to‚ from‚ and topic at the left hand side of the paper. Then‚ one must go on about writing the introduction paragraph followed by three body paragraphs and finally‚ the conclusion to wrap everything up. The final statement should be thanking the reader for reading your memo. This essay is on how one would go about writing a formal memo. You must start with the date‚ to‚ from‚ and topic at the
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I am writing this memo to inform you that it is my professional opinion that the network in need of a full vulnerability assessment. There are three tools that I believe would be a good fit for penetration testing on this network. They are NMAP‚ Nessus and Metasploit. I have added brief‚ yet detailed‚ descriptions of the three automated penetration testing tools that are on the market. I believe they all have their pros and cons and I will explain the capabilities and costs associated with all
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MEMORANDUM September 7‚ 2012 To: From: Subject: The importance of segregation of duties for a small business This memo is in response to your concern of how your company’s performance improves effectively. A strong internal control will definitely play an important role to achieve your goal. The memo will first explain what internal control is. It is then followed by discussing segregation of duties‚ which is a key factor of internal control. I also include some examples of how duties
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