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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large-scale ‘managerial enterprise’ as put forward by the famous business historian Alfred Chandler has not been followed completely by all of the world’s leading economies. This essay will therefore be structured as follows: first I will briefly explain Chandler’s theory of the large-scale managerial enterprise‚ putting it into context of time and place and pointing out the major flaws of his theory. Then‚ I will attempt to justify my opinion by using the Japanese enterprise system‚ paying attention
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AUDIT PLANNING Audit planning procedures are the first and perhaps the most important step in carrying out a successful audit. Without adequate planning‚ the likelihood of missing a significant risk area or encountering engagement-related problems increases considerably. As baseball great and noted philosopher‚ Yogi Berra puts it‚ “If you don’t plan on where you are going‚ you could end up someplace different!” All too often the auditor does not give adequate attention to audit planning for a vast
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Miracle creations enterprise’– partnership between sellers sold plastic balls for 7 days in the informal economy. The enterprise had seed capital of Rs 100‚ the discussions held before starting its business tried to find the market for an innocuous commodity. In Crawford market- the place from where the commodity was procured‚ the oligopolistic sellers there followed price rigidity. So‚ the enterprise inspite of having inelastic demand for plastic balls (for 7 days) the enterprise has to pay a fixed
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This particular case depicts the history and issues faced by a relatively small company active in the custom architectural millwork industry for the past 25 years. The new owners wanted the newly-acquired company to grow even further. The first few months seems to have been a success - Marcus spent a lot of his time with employees and customers‚ learning the field since he was‚ as mentioned in the text‚ an "outsider". However‚ keeping the company’s integrity and image intact was a priority. However
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Definition of Audit: To audit means to go through the process of examining and verifying a company ’s financial records and supporting documents. While a business might go through an audit for any number of reasons‚ such as wanting to attract investors‚ get a loan‚ or sell the business‚ for many business people the word "audit" is welded to the words "income tax". An income tax audit is an inspection and verification of a company ’s records and supporting documents conducted by a CRA (Canada
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Audit Manual – PART TWO SYSTEM BASED AUDIT Table of content 1. 2. Introduction.......................................................................................................................3 Systems based audit ........................................................................................................4 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 2.7. 2.8. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. 4.9. 4.10. 4.11. 4.12. 4.13. Preparing for & planning
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UPS Diversity Audit Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Diversity Audit 4 I. UPS Organizational Background 4 I.1. Corporate History 4 I.2. Corporate Business Culture and Scale 4 I.3. Delivery Service Industry 4 I.4. Operational Management 5 I.5. Technology and Innovation in UPS 5 II. Selected Criteria 6 II.1. Diversity Audit Background 6 II.2. Audit Criteria 7 III. Diversity Management in UPS 8 III.1. Diversity of UPS people 8 III.2. Diversity of UPS Community 8 III.3. Diversity
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contractor‚ it is a middle sized company with turnover of nearly £15 million‚ but internal company has lots of problems‚ it will discover the fraud. As an accountant in this company‚ it is necessary to find the weakness in company and help the company to solve the current problem to consummate the system. It will make the company do batter in the future. Content: (a) Weaknesses in internal control and improve Weakness 1 :This company has no internal audit function‚ its internal control systems is
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Case You are the internal audit senior responsible for conducting an assurance engagement of the XYZ Company payroll process. This process has not been audited for three years and‚ as such‚ is due in the normal audit cycle. There have been no significant changes since the previous audit‚ that is‚ there were no system changes‚ no reorganization of personnel‚ and no substantive procedural changes. However‚ during the last assurance engagement‚ the internal audit function identified several observations
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