Issues In Auditing and Professional Practice ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS The questions in this assignment are extracted from the text book for this paper; Reference: Johnson‚ R. (ed)‚ Readings in Auditing Volume 2‚ John Wiley & Sons Australia‚ 2007. Answer the following 4 questions: Question 1: (Chapter 10 “Australian Wheat Board”‚ p135 Question 4) Discuss the lessons to be learnt from the AWB scandal. Question 2: (Chapter 12 “Fraud prevention and detection- further guidance”‚ p158 Question 3)
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Standards of Beauty: A Look at How Conformity Establishes Identity How do you define beauty? Is it something that is acquired? Or is it a privilege that is bestowed on certain individuals? The society within The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ establishes a certain standard to which its members must conform to. This conformity is also present in Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style. His novel serves as a reflection of today’s society with the presence of mass media and their guidelines
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Professional Writing Standards Critical Thinking CRITERIA • • • • Audience Purpose Context Frame Strategic approach Logic and Reasoning • • • • Logical units of discourse Claim or assertion Idea unity and integrity Supporting evidence Structural Coherence • • • • Coherent “whole” Internal logic Section unity & integrity Transitions Language use Information Design • • • Format and channel Visual design Readability/accessibility Professionalism Error interference
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Double Standard Women of our time are beginning to break into this male dominated news industry. A recent survey from Ball State University showed that 99% of all broadcast newsrooms have female employees and that now women make up more than 40% of the total broadcast workforce (Papper‚ 2005). That same survey unfortunately showed that only 10% of local sports reporters are women and that 7% of local sports anchors are women (Sheffer‚ 2007). These numbers show that women are breaking into the
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General English standard of students Question 1: How bad is the situation? 1. HKEAA recently completed the first administration of the TSA of Primary 3 students to assess their performance against professionally defined competences in Chinese‚ English and Mathematics. Surprisingly‚ there are 25% of students who fail in English. 2. In the 2009 HKCEE and HKALE English examinations‚ there are some unacceptable mistakes such as some students spelled banana wrongly to ‘’banna’’ and ‘’bananna’’
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Measuring the Standard of Living Economists want to be able to make statements that compare the standard of living between different countries or between different time periods. This is quite tricky. As we have just observed‚ people enjoy a very different mix of products and services at different points in time. In fact‚ a likely reason that DeLong seized on the example of flour is that flour is one of the few products that we buy today that we can picture being purchased 500 years ago. Economists
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In this paper‚ I will talk about the CAS standard for University of Northern Colorado (UNCO) Career Services. At first‚ I thought that there was not CAS standard for UNCO Career Services and I was wrong after asking the director of Career Services. Career Services follows the CAS Standard and their values in order improve the program and the institution. In this paper‚ I will evaluate the program‚ how CAS fits within the Career Services‚ and recommendation. Evaluate the program One of the things
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Becoming a Fair-Minded Thinker Weak versus Strong Critical Thinking Critical thinking involves basic intellectual skills‚ but these skills can be used to serve two incompatible ends: self-centeredness or fair-mindedness. As we are learning the basic intellectual skills that critical thinking entails‚ we can begin to use those skills in a selfish or in a fair-minded way. For example‚ when students are taught how to recognize mistakes in reasoning (commonly called fallacies)‚ most students see
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On September 28 2010‚ the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) had declared they had completely conducted the first stage of The Conceptual Framework joint project. The purpose of this joint project is to further improve an advanced conceptual framework for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP) (Norwalk 2010). Basically‚ the conceptual framework is an attempt to express
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II. Accounting and Auditing in the Philippines T his chapter presents an overview of Philippine accounting and auditing arrangements. It provides context for the following chapters on professional infrastructure‚ accounting and auditing standards‚ accounting and auditing training‚ and government budgeting and accounting arrangements. The chapter comprises eight sections‚ as follows: Part One: Accounting 1 – Introduction – identifies historical factors that have influenced accounting arrangements
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