PAPER CAS 610‚ Using the Work of Internal Auditors Paper for ACCT 343 Auditing Wendy Popowich Carrie Prosser Bachelor of Applied Business Administration – Accounting NAIT School of Business Submitted: October 20‚ 2010 Due: October 20‚ 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive summary 3 Introduction 4 Limitations in changes to the ISA 610 before implementation….. 5 Format and wording changes within the exposure draft 5 Using direct assistance from internal auditors 6 Using examples in the proposed exposure
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Successor Auditors .01-.13 Using the facts from the ZZZZ Best case and professional guidance from AU Section 315‚ explain the following: A. As the successor auditor‚ what was E&W suppose to do before they accepted ZZZZ Best as an audit client in regards to Greenspan? Summarize in enough detail Au 315.03-.06. In your answer give and support your opinion as to whether or not E&W violated these paragraphs and if you can prove it as a fact. As the successor auditor (an auditor considering
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READINESS OF GOVERNMENT AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION IN MALAYSIA 1.0 PROBLEM STATEMENT 1.1 Public sector governance requires the controlling and accounting officers to discharge their responsibilities of stewardship of public resources by being open‚ accountable‚ prudent in decision making‚ managing and delivering results. The provision of the Financial Procedure Act 1957 also places a high premium for controlling officers to be personally responsible and accountable for propriety and accountability
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Auditor Independence and Non-Audit Services: A Literature Review Vivien Beattie University of Stirling and Stella Fearnley University of Portsmouth TABLE OF CONTENTS Page List of tables and list of figures About the authors v vi List of abbreviations vii Executive summary ix Part 1 Auditor independence 1 Introduction 2 1 1.1 The role of audit in regulating capital markets 1 1.2 The ‘problem’ of non-audit services (NAS) 1 1.3 The current UK regulatory and professional environment
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Legal Liability 0f Parents Parents should and should not be held legally responsible for their children ’s actions. Parents who are incompetent and parents who are in the system themselves should be held responsible for their children ’s actions. Parents who are handicapped and parents who are competent should not be held responsible for their children ’s actions. Parents that do not rear their children should be held responsible. There are parents who do not care what the child does as
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CHAPTER 4 Legal Liability Of CPAs Review Questions 4-1 There are several reasons why the potential legal liability of CPAs for professional "malpractice" exceeds that of physicians and other professionals. One reason is the vast number of people who may sustain damages. If a physician or attorney commits a serious error‚ the number of injured parties generally is limited to one individual patient or client. When a CPA’s report is in error‚ literally millions of investors
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Course: Legal & Ethical Environment Professor: Dr. Libertella Chapter 16 Business Ethics Perspective P419 1. Stewart was not an insider of ImClone and she received the tip from her stockbroker. Does she have an ethical obligation to ask where the tip came from or why the broker was recommending selling the stock? Does the fact that Stewart was an officer and director of a publicly traded corporation require her to use higher ethical standards when buying and selling stock of other companies
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Anderson‚ Olds‚ and Watershed‚ CPAs Chicago‚ Illinois 60612 December 18‚ 2009 Mr. Kevin Chen‚ Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors Peach Blossom Cologne Co. 1308 Bee Hive Boulevard Chicago‚ Illinois 60615 Dear Mr. Chen: This will confirm our understanding of the arrangements for our audit of internal control over financial reporting performed in conjunction with an audit of the financial statements of Peach Blossom Cologne Co. for the year ending December 31‚ 2009. We
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1. How an auditor evaluates the efficacy of internal control system? Ans: The auditor has to decide whether he can place reliance on the internal control. If internal control is adequate‚ he can restrict nature‚ timing and extent of his checking accordingly. If not‚ he is left with no alternative but to resort to detailed checking. The manner of evaluation of internal control may be in the following lines: 1. Making preliminary evaluation of the system 2. Compliance procedures to evaluate
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Learning Zone Analytical Procedures – A Powerful Tool for Auditors (Relevant to Paper 8 – Principles of Auditing and Management Information Systems) David Chow FCCA‚ FCPA‚ CPA (Practising) Audit tests Auditors normally carry out the following types of audit tests to determine whether financial statements are fairly stated: (i) procedures to obtain an understanding of internal control (ii) tests of controls (iii) substantive tests: • substantive tests of transactions; • analytical
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