Comprehensive Case 1.1 Enron 1. There were several parties responsible for the "crisis of confidence" created by the Enron debacle. Enron’s executives were responsible for their behavior in trying to adjust their financial statements. Andersen’s auditors were responsible for not doing their jobs with integrity and not keeping their independence in from Enron. Regulatory groups were responsible for making
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Sam Li Case: Jamaica Water Properties 1. Place yourself in David Sokol’s position. After discovering the suspicious items in JWP’s accounting records‚ would you have taken a different course of action than he did? Why or why not? I doubt if I can reach the position that David Sokol had in my career’s life. However‚ let say that if I was in David Sokol’s position‚ I would probably do the same thing David had done. I believe the proper working ethics are accountability‚ professionalism and
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Meli Marine Case Study Strategy Analysis Significant Factors For Attractiveness of The Industry • Global commerce trade is primarly dependent on trans-ocean shipping; roughly 90% of general cargo is shipped via container Based on the container shipping value chain‚ there are several segments to expand and integrate the business and enter the market. This would provide benefit of business diversification hence decreasing risks According to the volume of growth of shipping lanes (Exhibit 6)‚ every
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ICA # 1 Q#1: Identify and explain the components of the integrated marketing communications mix. A#1: IMC Mix is coordination of all forms of marketing communications consists of components such as Advertising‚ Personal Selling‚ Public Relations‚ Sales Promotions‚ Experimental Marketing‚ Direct Response‚ Digital Communications in to a unified program to maximize the impact on the target audience. Q#2: "An understanding of Maslow ’s Hierarchy of needs and theory of motivation has a direct
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1. Political/legal: The first operating license from the department of conservation was only for 30 days‚ for those 30 days 28 people paid $75 dollars each to leap off the 43m bridge‚ but it wasn’t long before word spread and New Zealand and Queenstown in particular were considered prime destinations on the world adventure tourism map. Economic: AJ Hackett Bungy had a huge economic effect on New Zealand because it put New Zealand on the adventure tourism map and helped to bring more visitors
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o i solutions limited Innovation Audit See the gaps in your innovation and develop plans for new products‚ services‚ processes and cost savings. Below is a summary of the Audit we recommend and can conduct. The full Audit varies dependent upon the organisation. Key Issues There are hard and soft factors that will determine how innovative an organisation is. Those key factors: • CEO and Board Commitment • A Learning Organisation ie being open‚ adaptive and forward thinking • A culture that encourages
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current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0268-6902.htm Past control risk and current audit fees Past control risk Thomas G. Calderon‚ Li Wang and Thomas Klenotic George W. Daverio School of Accountancy‚ The University of Akron‚ Akron‚ Ohio‚ USA 693 Abstract Purpose – The authors posit that audit fees are driven by historical risk factors and risk encountered in the current period. The purpose of this paper is to focus on historical
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Tammy Adams March 28‚ 2011 MAR Professor C. Dix Strategic Audit of Crowley Maritime Corporation Crowley Maritime Corporation is a U.S. owned and operated marine solutions‚ transportation and logistics company providing services in domestic and global markets through six operating lines of business: Latin America liner services; logistics; marine contract solutions; deep sea petroleum transportation; Puerto Rico/Caribbean liner services and petroleum transportation‚ distribution
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reporting process. Auditors need to remember that they are serving the public interest and not the interests of client management. 1-2. The audit opinion formulation process is a systematic approach by which the auditor evaluates the risk of being associated with a client‚ through the process of gathering and evaluating audit evidence‚ to determining the type of audit opinion that should be rendered. The stages and outcome of each stage are as follows: • Assessing Client Acceptance and Retention:
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CONTROLS IN AN EDP ENVIRONMENT The second standard of field work requires that we obtain a sufficient understanding of the client’s internal controls (I/C) to plan the audit and assess control risk. We hope that our assessment of control risk shows it to be low so that we can reduce substantive testing‚ thereby reducing audit costs. When EDP is used in significant accounting applications‚ then you must consider the effects the computer has when evaluating the internal controls. The auditor’s
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