actually in the UK. Because it was chartered in Luxembourg and Grand Caymans‚ Bank of England (BOE) thus thought itself as a secondary role in supervising BCCI‚ thereby reducing the level of scrutiny imposed on BCCI. In addition‚ BCCI has an uncommon auditing system. Price Waterhouse (PW) was the accountants for BCCI overseas‚ while Ernst & Whitney in charged of BCCI holdings. Two sets of auditors being used was to avoid them from publishing a meaningful consolidated accounts and make sure neither of
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Situation Re- port Comment 1. A company has not followed generally accepted accounting principles in the recording of its leases. 7 2. A company has not followed generally accepted accounting principles in the recording of its leases. The amounts involved are immaterial. 1 3. A company valued its inventory at current replacement cost. While the auditor believes that the inventory costs do approximate replacement costs‚ these costs do not approximate any GAAP inventory valuation method
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doubt is needed in the financial statements (including the footnotes) and the audit report. If client disclosures appear inadequate‚ the auditor should document conclusions whether a qualified or adverse audit opinion should be expressed. Regular auditing procedures that may identify conditions and events that indicate a going concern problem include the following: 1. Analytical procedures – Analytical procedures used as a substantive test or used in the planning and overall review stages of the audit
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Information Technology Auditing MGMT 550 Cassandra Rich April 28‚ 2014 Information technology auditing is important to the financial auditor and to the financial statement audit because IT is the foundation of today’s accounting systems. IT audits are crucial for ensuring that a company’s financial statements are a representation of the company’s position and that the system used to compile the statements is operating properly and producing accurate statements. IT auditing allows the auditors
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Content Executive summary 1. 0 Business operation of REX 1.1 Nature of revenue sources 1.2Conduct of operation 1.3 Products and services 1.4 Market conditions and competition 1.5 Regulatory environment 2.0 PEST analysis 2.1 Political 2.2 Economics 2.3 Social 2.4 Technical 3.0 Audit risks 3.1 Measurement risk of aircraft 3.2 Revenue manipulate risk 3.3 Derivative financial instruments risk 3.4 Employee benefit risk 4.0 Internal control Reference Executive summary
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External Auditing – Week 4 discussion What do following risk categories mean: planned detection risk‚ inherent risk‚ control risk‚ acceptable audit risk? Can you give some examples? How do we as auditors deal with them? DETECTION RISK Detection risk is the risk that auditor’s substantive procedures will not detect a misstatement that exist in an account balance or class of transactions that could be material‚ individually or when aggregated with misstatements in other balances or classes.
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Issues In Auditing and Professional Practice ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS The questions in this assignment are extracted from the text book for this paper; Reference: Johnson‚ R. (ed)‚ Readings in Auditing Volume 2‚ John Wiley & Sons Australia‚ 2007. Answer the following 4 questions: Question 1: (Chapter 10 “Australian Wheat Board”‚ p135 Question 4) Discuss the lessons to be learnt from the AWB scandal. Question 2: (Chapter 12 “Fraud prevention and detection- further guidance”‚ p158 Question 3)
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Chap 8 – INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDITING STANDARDS‚ GUIDELINES‚ BEST PRACTICES ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction BS 7799 CMM - Capability Maturity Model COBIT – IT Governance Model CoCo ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Systrust and Webtrust HIPAA SAS 70 – Statement of Auditing Standards for Service Organisations ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Growing business requires computers
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1 Auditing issues in Enron case Independent Needed for the Houston office of Andersen‚ an audit partner that understands the role of being a "public watchdog" with "ultimate allegiance to the creditors and shareholders" . Arthur Anderson abandoned its roles as independent auditor by turning a blind eye to improper accounting‚ including the failure to consolidate‚ failure of Enron to make $51million in proposed adjustments in 1997‚ and failure to adequately disclose the nature of transactions with
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Fraud Auditing and Different type of fraud Introduction Over the years‚ the role of auditors become increasingly important especially in a capitalist economy as the process of wealth creation and political stability depends heavily upon confidence in processes of accountability and how well the expected roles are being fulfilled. An auditor has the responsibility for the prevention‚ detection and reporting of fraud‚ other illegal acts and errors is one of the most controversial issues in auditing
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