process that is often known as a Strategic Audit. The external environment in which a business operates can create opportunities which a business can exploit‚ as well as threats which could damage a business; however‚ to be in a position to exploit opportunities‚ or respond to threats‚ a business needs to have the right resources and capabilities in place. The process of conducting a strategic audit can be summarized into the following stages: Resource Audit‚ Value Chain Analysis‚ Core Competence Analysis
Premium Strategic management Management
ACFI3214 Audit and Assurance Lecture 14 (Week 18): Audit Procedures to Verify Inventories Instructions 1 Read pages 1 and 2 of today’s handout down to The Importance of Inventory in Financial Statements (4 minutes) 2 ACFI3214 Lecture 14 (Week 18) Overheads The Importance of Inventory in FS Where year end inventory is incorrect: GP‚ operating profit and PBT all incorrect Profitability %s incorrect Tax charge incorrect EPS incorrect Current assets‚ total assets
Premium Inventory Balance sheet Asset
Types of Environment Audits Site Audit 1. Reclamation of Land * Important because the inception of the Mining Act was passed in 1869. * was periodically amended and in 1991 included closure and reclamation * Therefore‚ after the amended Mining Act in 1991 when a mine begins its operation it must have plans‚ procedures and funds to restore the land to its natural state. 2. Longer term protection of close sites * A closed mine site can be monitored forever due to the hazardous
Premium Mining Oil spill
Completing the Audit Concepts: Nature of a balance sheet approach to the audit & implications for auditing the income statement * Obtain sufficient‚ competent‚ evidential matter for all balance sheet accounts * Note that if all balances are fairly stated‚ and the balance sheet balances‚ then Retained Earnings must be correct * If Retained Earnings is correct‚ then the Income Statement’s net income cannot be materially in error * Therefore‚ less work is done auditing the income
Premium Balance sheet Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Income statement
INTRODUCTION Audit Planning and reporting Auditing planning and reporting are two critical stages in whole audit Cycle. Audit planning is before beginning of field work and reporting is last Stage in bank audit Good planning leads to effective Reporting Planning (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organizing the desired activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning involves the creation and maintenance of a PLAN. As such< planning is
Premium Audit Auditing Auditor's report
AUDIT QUALITY A BRIEF DISCUSSION REGARDING THE QUALITY OF ASSURANCE AND AUDIT Student ID: 1204335 Xiaoyu ZHENG AUDIT QUALITY A BR IEF D ISC US SI ON R EGAR D IN G THE QUAL IT Y OF A S SUR A N CE AN D A UD IT A INTRODUCTION uditing has inevitably become one of the essential activities in the current business world. It may be attributable to the fact that financial reports still remain the major criteria in evaluating the performance of the business. Audit quality refers to different
Premium Audit Auditing Financial audit
COMMUNICATIONS AUDIT I. Definition Communications Audit is a study to analyze the productivity of companies that allocate a large budget and work energy for their marketing communications and image building as well as those companies that are planning an IPO. II. Measurings covered by the audit The most important feature of a Communications Audit is that it can measure qualitative as well as quantitative values. The items that can be measured are: · Precision of the implementation
Premium Public relations Graphic design
Accounting Horizons Vol. 21‚ No. 2 June 2007 pp. 165–187 Auditor Communications with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors: Policy Recommendations and Opportunities for Future Research Jeffrey Cohen‚ Lisa Milici Gaynor‚ Ganesh Krishnamoorthy‚ and Arnold M. Wright SYNOPSIS: To contribute to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) project on auditor communications with audit committees and boards of directors‚ we present in this paper a review of relevant academic literature
Premium Auditing Audit Internal audit
Safeguards Objective Assessment a) The lending of staff by the firm to an audit client may create a self-review threat. (APES110.290.142) Referring to APES110‚290 142‚ it states that if the firm lend the staff to audit client‚ and it will create the self-review threat. The possible safeguards are as following: Pay more attention on the work done by the loaned staff while in audit engagement. Do not assign any audit responsibility to the task that is performed by that loaned staff. Remove
Premium Family Audit Financial audit
What is a Knowledge Audit? What is an Audit? “The most general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person‚ organization‚ system‚ process‚ project or product. Audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information‚ and also provide an assessment of a system’s internal control. The goal of an audit is to express an opinion on the person/organization/system etc. under evaluation based on work done on a test basis. Due to practical constraints‚ an audit seeks to provide
Premium Management Audit Knowledge management