Phar-Mor‚ Inc. 1. 2 cases which companies have committed fraud by misstating inventory: • Rocky Mount Undergarment Company‚ Inc. • Leslie Fay Company 2. Intentional misstatements of inventory is difficult to detect‚ as was in the case of Phar-Mor‚ Inc.‚ because of the collusion by employees and/or management to commit fraud. 3. Coopers & Lybrand won the Phar-Mor‚ Inc. account with a very low bid‚ so they wanted to limit their costs by testing only 4 out of the 129 stores
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is one of the owners. The possibility of hiding facts is high in this kind of business because of the close relationship among the family’s member. I believe the family owned business demands more effort from the auditor to check and discover misstatements. 2. For the prepaid inventory I would recommend that the auditor should focus on the following objectives; existing‚ occurrence‚ valuation and allocation‚ completeness‚ and right and obligation. Prepaid items represent a complete listing
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risk- the risk that auditors will issue and unqualified opinion on financial statements that contain a material misstatement * Inherent risk and control risk * 3 step approach for audit risk model * Set audit risk at desired levels * Assess risk of material misstatement * Determine detection risk based on the level of audit risk and risk of material misstatement * The components of the audit risk model are assessed on an assertion-by-assertion basis * This assessment
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1.) After performing any alternative procedures‚ the auditor should evaluate the combined evidence provided by the confirmations and the alternative procedures to determine whether sufficient evidence has been obtained about all the applicable financial statement assertions. In performing that evaluation‚ the auditor should consider (a) the reliability of the confirmations and alternative procedures; (b) the nature of any exceptions‚ including the implications‚ both quantitative and qualitative‚
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ACCT 112: PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING 1 ACCOUNTING THEORY NOTES (a) International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards. The foreword to accounting standards defines Accounting Standards as Authoritative statements of how particular types of transaction and other events should be reflected in financial statements. Accounting Standards are developed to achieve comparability of financial information between and among different organizations. International Accounting
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principles in the United States of America. Management is also responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free form material misstatements. Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements‚ an opinion on management’s assessment‚ and an opinion on the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting based
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correctly reflects the economic events that occurred during the accounting period. When a mistake is found the auditor determines if the misstatement is material or immaterial. Misstatements are material when they affect a person’s decision using the financial statements and are immaterial if there is no effect on a person’s decision. When an auditor comes across a misstatement of the financial statements that is considered immaterial‚ they should recognize it and suggest that management fix it. Since it
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for a client’s subsidiary. The Big Eight Firms shares the work. At the start of the work‚ Gene‚ his assistant‚ told Dan that Oliver was a strict authoritarian and a very inflexible man. During the course of the audit‚ Dan came across a material misstatement that legally required him to issue an "except for" opinion but his supervisor insisted on issuing a clean audit opinion‚ upon which Dan had several heated arguments with his supervisor. These events led Dan to question whether he should do as instructed
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Professional Rule violations. The Prudent Person Concept states “the auditor is expected only to conduct the audit with due care‚ and is not expected to be perfect” (Arens‚ Elder‚ & Beasley‚ p. 116). The failure of an audit to uncover material misstatements which resulted in the issuance of an incorrect audit opinion will damage the auditor reputation‚ but this depends on the reliance of the financial statements by other
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Case 8.11 Societe Generale 1) This was the hardest question I delt with in this case‚ so I went to the basics: Accounting and Auditing in France. I came across the Supreme Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants(7) and the National Society of Auditors (CNCC). (8) After researching this I simply did a search on the individual websites for “recent developments”‚ and nothing major came up in regards to the individual organizations. However‚ on expert-comptables.fr‚ I came across a press
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