AFM 351: Audit Strategies Satyam Fraud: A case of India’s Enron 1. Describe the governance structure at Satyam. What was the “tone-at-the-top” at Satyam during the fraud period? • • • • • • • 2. In terms of the confirmation of cash balances‚ what deficiencies can you identify in terms of the procedures followed in the Satyam engagement? • • • • 3. Ramalinga Raju was the Chairman of the Board His brother‚ Rama Raju‚ was the Managing Director and CEO They both had direct operational
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Big Fat Liability 2. In your opinion‚ should the food and restaurant industries be held liable for the rise of obesity‚ or not? That is‚ which side do you support and why? The food and restaurant industries should not be held solely reliable for the rise of obesity. The individual should hold some responsibility for the foods they chose to consume. If it’s a minor that is obese than the parents should hold responsibility because they play a large role in the foods they eat. Restaurants
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Happiness Express Inc. 1. a) The primary audit objectives of confirming a client’s year-end accounts receivable include occurrence and accuracy of realizable value. Auditors would like to make sure that the transaction generating the accounts receivable actually occurs‚ and that the receivables are recorded at accurate value for the current reporting period. Usually they will send accounts receivable confirmations to client’s customers directly. b) The primary audit objectives of performing
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external auditors to be independent? Relate your answer to the primary role of external auditors? By Zachariah Godfrey-Plews This essay has asked me to look at the importance of external auditors and why it is vital for them to remain independent. I will try and look at the many ways of the advantages of independent auditing from different perspectives for example the company itself‚ the general public and the state. I think it is important to first define what an audit and an external auditor to be
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Liability Exposure in Business Joshua Houghton Ashford University BUS670 Legal Environment Professor Janet Fiorentino February 17th‚ 2013 Liability Exposure in Business Creation of a business of any type has to fall under a particular organizational form. There are many elements to starting a business a future proprietor should consider‚ such as degree of forms and applications that need to be filed‚ state and federal‚ legal liabilities‚ level of difficulty in the formation of a business
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Outline the duty of care owned by an occupier to visitors defined in the Occupier’s Liability Act 1995 Under the traditional common law system entrants upon a premises were divided into the following four categories: Contractual invitees Invitees Licensees Trespassers Under the Occupier’s Liability Act 1995 three new categories were created; visitors‚ recreational users‚ trespassers. A visitor according to the act was: An entrant of right An entrant other than
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Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Auditing Practice In business‚ there should have various rules and regulation governing in order to avoid mismanagement and frauds associated. In the United States‚ several bodies have been put in place to oversee‚ create registration‚ reporting and‚ providing transparency. Such bodies include‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) which eventually resulted in the creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). These boards
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CHAPTER 3 THE REPORTING ENTITY AND CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q3-1 The basic idea underlying the preparation of consolidated financial statements is the notion that the consolidated financial statements present the financial position and the results of operations of a parent and its subsidiaries as if the related companies actually were a single company. Q3-2 Without consolidated statements it is often very difficult for an investor to gain an understanding
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Abstract: Creative accounting is a practice of accounting following the certain rules of it‚ but it is fluctuated from the basic spirit of those rules. Creative accounting is the ‘colorful’ representation of a company’s assets‚ liabilities and income. It is basically done to attract investors. The example of ‘the half glass of water’ maybe pulled to explain the idea. If a glass is filled with water to its half volume‚ then instead of saying ‘it is half empty’‚ the creative accountants prefer
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Assessment The most interesting part in Gupta’s article is in her conclusion. The author notes that fraud in the health sector is a reality and should be exposed. Gupta further states that clinical operations are vulnerable to fraud because the system lacks effective mechanisms to detect‚ investigate‚ and prosecute individuals or groups of people who engage in fraud. Finally‚ the author calls on everyone in the health sector to develop a culture of research‚ which should be based on fundamentals
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