Audits Companies‚ nonprofit organizations and the government use auditing‚ audits are used to look for inconsistencies in their financial statements‚ and internal controls (Bianca). There are different types of audits that could be requested by companies: Daily cash report audits‚ department level audit‚ data quality audit and purchasing system audits. Daily cash report audits Daily cash report audits are the most basic of the audits‚ this type of audit consists of one person checking another
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[pic] |Auditing – ACC 403 | |Student Course Guide | |Prerequisite: ACC 304 | | |
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Business Continuity Planning‚ Backup‚ and Recovery An important strategy for organizations is to be prepared for any eventuality. A critical element in any security system is a business continuity plan‚ also known as a disaster recovery plan. Business continuity is the chain of events linking planning to protection and recovery. The purpose of the business continuity plan is to keep the business operating after a disaster occurs. The plan prepares for‚ reacts to‚ and recovers from events that
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tightly you control the rights of users‚ or carefully you configure security permissions on your data‚ you should not consider the job complete unless you have a well-defined‚ timely auditing strategy to track the effectiveness of your defenses and identify attempts to circumvent them. To be well defined and timely‚ an auditing strategy must provide useful tracking data on an organization’s most important resources‚ critical behaviors‚ and potential risks. In a growing number of organizations‚ it must
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intentional cover up will have high costs to the economy and dire consequences. Even though there are laws and standards that regulate auditing‚ it does not completely stop or prevent firms from doing immoral acts. Before Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ auditing for both public and privately held companies followed the AICPA ’s standards of the 10 generally accepted auditing standards. In the years 2000-2002‚ there had been an increased of major corporate accounting scandals. Large corporations such as Enron
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Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Catherine Harris ACC491 December 15‚ 2012 Stephen Russell Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Generally Accepted Auditing Standards are set forth‚ so an auditor’s performance can be judged against something. Since 2002 and the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act auditing requirements have undergone many changes. As the times and technology change so must the profession. Generally Accepted Accounting Standards (GAAS) have 10 elements and are divided
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this paper our focus will not only be on the practices of auditing but also will be to the extended perspective to the auditing as a demand driven discipline which constantly and continuously meets the expectations arose out of the functional‚ social and legal constructs. It outlines some reflections on auditing as a demand driven discipline rather than discussing only the practices of auditing. It is very important to understand auditing and its vivid prominent place in the economy and such comprehension
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general‚ warrant response from the auditing team during their assessment of financial statements. Although the number of shirts sold to the auditing team do not constitute a material misstatement in regards to the financial statements‚ the risk related to fraud should be assessed and mitigated during the planning and carrying out of the audit and further audit procedures. These transactions do not affect the existence and valuation assertions relevant to auditing. The right and obligations assertions
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the auditor’s study of business operations for the purpose of making recommendations about economic and efficient use of resource‚ effective achievement of business objectives and compliance with company policies. • The term operational auditing is the most widely used today. • Definition of terms o OPERATIONAL – implies a focus on operations‚ as opposed to financial position. o MANAGEMENT – implies that the information obtained in the audit process is useful to management
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8.0 Background According to Wikipedia‚ Internal auditing is a profession and activity involved in helping organizations achieve their stated objectives. It does this by using a systematic methodology for analyzing business processes‚ procedures and activities with the goal of highlighting organizational problems and recommending solutions. Professionals called internal auditors are employed by organizations to perform the internal auditing activity. Internal auditors are employed by companies
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