[pic] ACCTG 312 SC 2012: Assignment 1 Current issues – scandals in auditing Introduction • For this assignment‚ you are required to research and report back on one of four well known scandals that involve auditors in some way. • It can be commenced after week 1 lectures are completed‚ so gives you a chance to get part of your semester’s work done early. It is due in week 3 (Thursday at 4 pm). • You will also be required to very briefly report to your tutorial group on one interesting
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Obtain an understanding with the client Develop Overall audit strategy Select staff for engagement Evaluate need for outside specialist 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. II. Understand the Client’s Business and Industry Why is it important? General Standard: “The auditor must obtain a sufficient understanding of the entity and its environment‚ including its
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Example auditing case 1)” Based on the information given in this case and your knowledge of auditor’s reports‚ identify the deficiencies in the draft of the proposed report. Do not redraft the report‚ but provide justification or explanation for each of the deficiencies you identify” (Pany‚ Auditor’s Report‚ 2010). A. In the Introduction paragraph it states “As discussed in Note K to the financial statements‚ the Company has properly disclosed a subsequent event dated March 14‚ 20x9” (Pany‚ Auditor’s
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934 offers recourse against the auditors to a far greater number of investors than does the Securities Act of 1933. Answer: True Difficulty: Medium 5. The precedent set by the Hochfelder v. Ernst case is generally believed to have increased auditors ’ legal liability. Answer: False Difficulty: Hard 6. The auditors can be held liable for negligence in audits of financial statements‚ but not in reviews of financial statements.
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Contemporary Issues in Auditing Contents 1. INTRODUCTION Basically the audit was originally described as to ascertaining whether the resource managing party had properly accounted for all receipts and payments on behalf of his principal. Modern audit considers whether all the information provided to the users of accounts are true and fair. Audit is‚ therefore‚ an examination of accounting records undertaken with a view to establishing whether they correctly
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Audit case You are the engagement partner in a firm of chartered accountant and are reviewing the audit fire of a client ABC ltd. the audit manager has recommended that the audit option is qualified because he is in dispute with the directors of ABC ltd. The audit manager wishes the directors to create a large doubtful debts provision against a major debtor that is over six months old. The directors do not witch to alarm the public about the current liquidity problems of their major costumer because
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Auditing Introduction Letter ACC/546 July 8‚ 2013 Allan Foster July 8‚ 2013 Larry Lancaster Chairman‚ President and Chief Executive Officer Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. 3411 Silverside Road Wilmington DE‚ 19810 Dear Mr. Lancaster‚ I understand that Apollo Shoes‚ Incorporated is concerned about acquiring certain auditing and assurance services. In today’s business world a company needs to stay ahead by operating more successfully and proficiently than its competition. Stromsodt can help
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balances are appropriately disclosed. Therefore of the 5 assertions and audit objectives listed above the 3 assertions applicable to direct test of cash balances are Existence‚ Completeness and Valuation. b) List 4 audit procedures to use in auditing cash. (4 marks) SOLUTION: Because of the large volume of transactions and the small account balance‚ the audit strategy is invariably to concentrate on verifying the account balance rather than the transactions. Moreover‚ because of the significance
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The Auditing Process INTRODUCTION Auditing is defined by the American Accounting Association or AAA as “a systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between those assertions and established criteria and communicating the results to interested users” (cited in Turney et al p. 108). From that definition‚ it is evident that the auditing process consists of three elements: evidence
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Theresa Golding BA 418 – Auditing Dr. Charles Pineno April 25‚ 2010 PART 1: “Small Firms May Face Audit Music” (published in The Wall Street Journal on April 19‚ 2007) addresses the ending of the delay in applying portions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to smaller companies. At the time of the article‚ some 6‚000 smaller public companies had yet to be required to “make an annual assessment of their internal financial-reporting controls with further review by the company’s outside auditor of
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