During October 2009 the Australian Securities and Investment Commission took action against executives and directors of the Centro Proprieties Group and Centro Retail Group. The executives included the former chief executive officer and the former chief financial officer as well as directors from the board of Centro. The ASIC was proceeding with the case on the basis that they assumed that the aforementioned had breached their statutory duty of care and diligence owed to the Centro entities and had
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An auditor happen to discover an error in the human resource system that allowed an employee to hack into the company human resources record systems and change their base salary rate an received a pay raise on two paycheck. The employee was able to eavesdrop on the network using IP spoofing technique to hijack a trusted host on the network and hide their identity in the process. The technique allowed the hijacker to steal and alter sensitive data such as payroll records . The employee also monitor
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Revenue Recognition Revenue is the electricity that drives business. Revenue has been the starting point on every income statement generated‚ every sales meeting conducted‚ and is on every entrepreneur’s wish list. The basic concept for revenue recognition is that revenue should not be recognized until it is realized or realizable and earned. There are also four criteria must be met in order to recognize revenue: 1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists: Consider the substance of the transaction
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are two independent situations: A. Grinner and Greeter‚ CPAs‚ were engaged to perform an audit of the financial statements of Happy‚ Inc. Happy’s management would not allow Grinner and Greeter to confirm any of the accounts receivable. All other auditing procedures were performed as considered necessary by Grinner and Greeter and no problems were found. However‚ Grinner and Greeter were unable to satisfy themselves with regard to the balance in the accounts receivable. B. Tick and Tie‚ CPAs‚ were
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Full Disclosure Dena Hawkins ACC/421 October 8‚ 2012 Kimberly Barnett Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to Answer Question 2 in chapter 24 of Intermediate Accounting; explain the need for full disclosure in financial reporting and to identify the possible consequences of failing to properly disclose certain items in financial statements. Full Disclosure Paper Ch. 24 – Question 2 “What is the full disclosure principle in accounting?” According to our text‚ “the full disclosure
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Unit 4 Assignment Abstract In this assignment I will be looking at what Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is and why it came to be. How SOX has affected the accounting and auditing industry and what the benefits and costs are and what changes have happened or should happen moving into the future with SOX. Unit 4 Assignment A family man has invested a portion of his retirement into a growing stock
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Auditing‚ Attestation‚ and Assurance Services Paper Jane Johnson Contemporary Auditing I ACC/491 Auditing‚ Attestation‚ and Assurance Services Paper Introduction Auditing is a subset of attestation‚ which is a subset of assurance. These services‚ which are governed by several organizations‚ are unique in their own way. Because of the constantly changing role of the auditor‚ particularly since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ different types of services have become necessary. In this
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Auditing a Publicly Traded Company Memo: To: Senior Staff Member From: Team A Date: September 13‚ 2010 Subject: Share-based payment reporting and special purpose entities reporting December 16‚ 2004 the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement 123‚ Shared- Based Statement‚ which took the place of Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation and replaced Accounting Principal Board Opinion No. 25 Accounting for Stock issued to Employees. Share-based payment is “a transaction in which
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Anonymous Caller Case Study 1 a) What would you recommend to the caller if you were Dr. Mitchell? Since it appears that the firms top executives are all apart of the fraud and don’t plan on correcting their unethical action. I recommend that the anonymous caller completely remove himself/herself from the situation by resigning or by reporting the situation to the firm’s board of directors or a governmental agency. b) What are the risks of continuing to work with the company? There
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Chapter Fourteen Review Questions: 1. Bill of Lading- Is a written contract between the carrier and the seller. It is prepared at the time of shipping goods to a customer. On the Bill of Lading one will find a description of the goods‚ quantities shipped‚ and any other relevant data. Once goods have been shipped‚ the bill of lading generates related sales invoices as well as the entry in the sales journal. An original copy of the bill of lading is sent to the customer while the rest are retained
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