SARBANES-OXLEY ACT ACC 403- AUDITING PROFESSOR August 19‚ 2012 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was placed into effect July 2002; the act introduced major changes to the regulation of corporate governance and financial practice. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was named after Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael Oxley‚ who were the main architects that set a number of non-negotiable deadlines for compliance. The organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was one of the first non- government
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II. Accounting and Auditing in the Philippines T his chapter presents an overview of Philippine accounting and auditing arrangements. It provides context for the following chapters on professional infrastructure‚ accounting and auditing standards‚ accounting and auditing training‚ and government budgeting and accounting arrangements. The chapter comprises eight sections‚ as follows: Part One: Accounting 1 – Introduction – identifies historical factors that have influenced accounting arrangements
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DETERMINANTS OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS ACCESS TO FORMAL CREDIT: THE CASE OF METEMA WOREDA‚ NORTH GONDAR‚ ETHIOPIA M.Sc. Thesis SISAY YEHUALA April‚ 2008 Haramaya University DETERMINANTS OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS ACCESS TO FORMAL CREDIT: THE CASE OF METEMA WOREDA‚ NORTH GONDAR‚ ETHIOPIA A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Agriculture Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension School of Graduate Studies HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
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(Components of internal control) The chapter identified five components of internal control. Listed below are specific control policies and procedures prescribed by Suntron Company. 1. Management gives careful consideration to the requisite knowledge and skills personnel need at all levels of the organization. Control environment. Planning‚ executing‚ controlling‚ and monitoring and entity’s activity is what is used to develop an overall framework for an entity to meet its objectives. 2
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Nature of Auditing and the Public Accounting Profession 1. Auditing neither creates goods nor adds utility to existing goods and therefore does not add value to business. Auditing exists only because it has been legally mandated. Auditing exists because it is needed by the company. It is beneficial to users who need assurance if their financial statements reflect economic conditions that occurred in a period. Without reliable information‚ companies might make less effective decisions which
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Chapter 13 Auditing the Inventory Management Process Answer Key True / False Questions 1. The "cradle-to-grave" cycle for inventory begins when goods are purchased and stored and ends when the finished goods are shipped to customers. TRUE AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Decision Making Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 13-01 Develop an understanding of the inventory management process. Topic: Overview of Inventory Management Process 2. A receiving
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produce credible results and "had the potential to undermine investor confidence in the integrity of the securities markets" (The Treasury‚ 2006). As a consequence a number of countries have reviewed their arrangements for independent oversight of the auditing profession. The United States‚ for example‚ has introduced tough external audit regulation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Canada has also introduced a regulator with extensive powers‚ including a national inspections unit as independent monitor
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CHAPTER 15 Completing the Audit LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Describe the balance sheet account groups that the major revenue and expense accounts are associated with‚ and the substantive analytical procedures applied to audit revenues and expenses. Outline the overall analytical procedures to be performed at the final stage of the audit‚ including analysis of the income statement‚ the cash flow statement‚ financial statement presentation and disclosures
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Social Auditing: Environmental Ethics Issues Characters: George Holt financial director Kim Hopkins internal auditor Senior Management Brian Henderson professional accountant (friend) Phone ringing by George to Kim George: hello!!!! Kim Kim: Yes‚ sir!!! George: Kim‚ I would like to highlight to you‚ that our management board meetings is schedule to next week Monday. Kim: Humm!!! George:I want you to make audit report on the company’s affaires….including graphs and figures…with full
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Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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