Financial Control Auditing in an Electronic Environment (e-Auditing) Presented to Dr. Marwa Tarek Presented By: Pierre Guirguis 9104428 Rimon Abd El-Meseih 9104386 Mahmoud Mohamed Refaat Auditing in an Electronic Environment (e-Auditing) * What is e-Auditing? Electronic auditing‚ or e-Auditing‚ is computer-assisted auditing that uses electronic records to complete all or part of the audit. If you use a computer to record your business activity and maintain this data electronically
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questions and facts regarding audit client considerations. 1) A brief summary of the case. 2) Identify key behaviors‚ attitudes and ethical dilemmas (if any) faced by the auditors. 3) Assess the philosophical and practical alternatives summarized in the case questions and evaluations of those solutions. 4) Briefly summarize what I would do faced with this situation in real life. The case is that of a CPA firm‚ Cardinal & Coyote‚ located in Phoenix‚ Arizona and centers around three personnel members
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AUDITING – ACC5604 – SEMESTER 1‚ 2014 SEMINAR 2 - PROBLEM QUESTIONS PROBLEM 2.1 Your text identifies three of the early approaches to auditing‚ namely the Balance Sheet‚ Transaction Cycle and Financial Risk Analysis approach. Required: (a) Provide a brief description of each approach. (b) Define the term “Transaction Cycle” and provide two examples of common transaction cycles‚ together with the account balances arising from the identified cycles. (c) If an auditor adopts
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statistical sampling in that non-probabilistic sampling can be used for the former but not the latter. In addition‚ sampling risk can be quantified when using statistical sampling but not when using nonstatistical sampling. 2. Directed sample selection is the selection of each item in the sample based on some judgment criteria established by the auditor. Discuss three commonly used criteria. ANS: Commonly-used criteria used in directed sample selection are: • Items most likely to contain misstatements;
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Multiple Choice Questions 1. Why do auditors generally use a sampling approach to evidence gathering? A. Auditors are experts and do not need to look at much to know whether the financial statements are correct or not. B. Auditors must balance the cost of the audit with the need for precision. C. Auditors must limit their exposure to their client to maintain independence. D. The auditor’s relationship with the client is generally adversarial‚ so the auditor will not have access to all of the
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Introduction Independence is a fundamental to the reliability of auditors’ reports. It is an attitude of mind characterized by integrity and an objective approach to professional works. A professional auditor should work both independent and seen to be so. Nowadays‚ but‚ the trend of providing non-audit services to audit clients seem to be sweeping accounting firms all over the world; impacts of independence impairment caused by this trend should not be ignored. The Meaning of Independence The
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[and] higher poverty rates” (Austin 1) Native Americans are still trying to overcome diversity in the work environment even after so many years. Due to such high discrimination towards Native Americans‚ not only is it difficult to get hired for a job when they eventually do land a job they still have to deal with discrimination in the workplace. The article goes on to state‚ “One major factor behind the high poverty rates and low wealth of American Indians is their low rate of employment. The Native
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changes for a multitude of reasons. Those reasons may be either external or internal in nature. External sources are those in which a company has no direct control over and originate outside of the organization including political‚ socio-cultural‚ International‚ technology and economic (Sutevski‚ 2011). Management can predict and plan for some of these factors; however‚ some may be unexpected or so powerful that they force a company to reevaluate the way they view their products and/or services and
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Roles and Duties of Auditors Taylor Hibma Taylor Hibma lives in New York City and began writing professionally in 2007. His articles have appeared primarily on the websites eHow and Pluck on Demand. Hibma has a bachelor’s degree in English and is pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing at the City College of New York. He has also received a certificate in filmmaking from the Digital Film Academy. Auditors are responsible for gathering and analyzing various types of financial information
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AUDITING 4 INTERNAL CONTROL In business control is required for optimum utilizatiion of resources and for maximising the profits.business operations are carried on with the help of human agents and equipments.both require supervision to ensure that tasks assigned to them are carried out properly to avoid wastes and losses. Internal control required for small business is not identical with that required for a large business in the sense that in case of the former‚the entire control
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