AUTOMATED ACCOUNTING Automated accounting is an approach to maintaining up-to-date accounting records with the use of accounting software. This software is often configured to allow for easy cross posting of receivable and payable‚ eliminating the need to enter multiple posting in order to keep accounting record in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles. Accounting as it exists today may be viewed as a system of assumptions‚ doctrines‚ tenets‚ and conventions‚ all encompassed
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Marianne Ojo. (2009)‚ Oxford Brookes University. The overall purpose of this article is to be highlighted is why the external auditor is such an important tool in corporate governance. Corporate governance is the system of rules‚ practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled. It is basically needed to balance the interest of the stakeholders in a company. Meanwhile‚ the external auditor is needed to make sure that the company follow the GAAP‚ checking the accounting record
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Auditing procedures: Five assertions: 1. Occurrence: Define: transactions and events that have been recorded have occurred and pertain to the entity. Explain: sales and purchases shown in the income statement belong to the company and are real‚ that is they actually took place. 2. Completeness: Define: all transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded. Explain: all the individual transactions making up the balances in the income statement are recorded; no sales
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eventually drawn into Livent’s fraudulent schemes by its principal architects‚ including Maria Messina‚ the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). Messina‚ a former partner with Deloitte & Touche’s Canadian affiliate‚ had previously served as Livent’s audit engagement partner. The fraud unraveled following Livent’s takeover by an investment group led by Hollywood mogul Michael Ovitz. The new management team installed by Ovitz soon found that “massive‚ systematic irregularities” permeated the company’s
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CHAPTER 19: PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT‚ INDEPENDENCE‚ AND QUALITY CONTROL Ethics and Professional Conduct * Ethics- system or code of conduct based on moral duties and obligations that indicate how an individual should interact with others in society. * Professionalism- refers to the conduct‚ aims‚ or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or professional person. * Most important concepts: personal responsibility and integrity * Accounting profession has developed a Code
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Decision- Making Process: Choosing the Right Choice LaShanda Prejean MGT 230 Ayneka Bruno June 11‚ 2012 Decision- Making Process: Choosing the Right Choice When making a decision like enrolling in college‚ one must have the right to go through it. There are certain steps in the decision-making process to be completed when deciding how to go about the choice made. Decisions can either make or break a person ’s self-esteem‚ so it is important to choose
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Training Material on Internal Auditing Internal Auditing Handbook 1 Session 1 – External Audit........................................................................5 1.1 Definition and Objective.....................................................................5 1.2 Responsibilities of External Audit ......................................................5 1.3 Scope of the Audit .............................................................................6 1.4 Auditor’s Report Basic
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Chapter 10 AUDIT WORKING PAPERS Section 1000 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 Contents Purpose Importance of Working Papers Confidential Nature of Working Papers Purposes Served by Working Papers Planning and Preparing Working Papers Principles and Methods of Documentation Working Paper Format Specific Standards for Each Workpaper Review of Audit Workpapers Arranging and Filing Standardized Workpapers Retirement of Audit Workpapers Special Project Workpapers Backup
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1. The ethical questions raised relate to the partner’s independence. He cannot be fully independent according to their professional code of conduct if he is maintaining a secret payroll for the client. He is essentially perpetrating a fraud on behalf of the client. It does not matter that PTL was not an organization registered with the SEC; the partner still has to follow the professional code of conduct that is integral to his profession and the public’s trust in it. 2. There are numerous procedures
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portioned depends on the actual situation. The specific audit procedures to obtain evidence regarding the opening balances include: Current assets and liabilities. Audit evidence about opening balances for current assets and liabilities may be obtained as part of the current period’s audit procedures. For example‚ the collection (payment) of opening account receivable (account payable) during the current period will provide some audit evidence of their existence‚ rights and obligations‚ completeness
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