YORK UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LIBERAL ARTS AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES School of Administrative Studies PART B: AP/ADMS 4551 Auditing and Other Assurance Services Midterm Examination‚ February 21‚ 2010 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Part B will be distributed 70 minutes from the start of the exam. A YorkCard or acceptable photo identification is required as your identification for this examination. If you do not have identification documents‚ you will be required to personally bring these to your instructor
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exposes the cash collection system to considerable risk (Millichamp and Taylor‚ 2008). These control weaknesses are detailed below along with the resulting potential for irregularities in the system. Failure to file cash invoices in numeric or date order makes it easy to “misfile” them and they could potentially be lost leading to bad debt write off. Failure to use a carbon copy process‚ if the invoices are raised manually‚ also exposes the council to risk of error because there is no guarantee the copy
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Chapter 1 SOLUTIONS FOR EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS 1.47 Audit‚ Attestation‚ and Assurance Services Students may encounter some difficulty with this matching question because the Special Committee on Assurance Services (SCAS) listed many things that heretofore have been considered “attestation services” (long before assurance services were invented). As a result‚ we believe that this question is a good vehicle for discussing the considerable overlap between attestation and assurance services.
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5-52 Trend analysis‚ common-size financial statements‚ and ratios are presented for the Brody Corporation in Figure 5.4. Assume that you are auditing Brody ’s financial statements for the year ended 12/31/X8. You have performed tests of controls over the recording of gross sales and believe that the system is operating effectively and that 7 percent represents an accurate estimate of the increase in gross sales for 20X8 over the amount for 20X7. You should also assume that the financial statements
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Auditing Theory College 1: Het waarom van de accountantscontrole Agency theorie: De agency theorie legt de relatie tussen de 3 perspectieven uit. De drie partijen zijn‚ namelijk de principaal (investeerder)‚ agent (management)en monitor (accountant). De agency costs nemen relatief meer toe dan dat het aandelen bezit van de manager afneemt. Daarnaast kunnen de agency costs die groei begrenzen door dat eventuele investering niet gedaan kunnen worden. Je kan er van uit gaan dat de agency costs een negatieve
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The Auditing Process INTRODUCTION Auditing is defined by the American Accounting Association or AAA as “a systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between those assertions and established criteria and communicating the results to interested users” (cited in Turney et al p. 108). From that definition‚ it is evident that the auditing process consists of three elements: evidence
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Nature and Purpose of Auditing Content : • Definition and objectives of auditing • Types of audits • Development of auditing • Qualities of an auditor • Auditing process Objectives : Students should be able to : • Describe the definition and the objectives of auditing. • Distinguish between different types of audits. • Briefly describe the development of auditing. • List and explain
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Jessica Schmitt Auditing Chapter 9‚ problem 9-28 A. Since there are no specific materiality guidelines‚ it is the auditor’s professional judgment that must be used to determine the appropriate preliminary estimates of materiality. I used the guidelines listed on pg 251 in figure 9-2: Statement Percent Guideline Dollar Range (in thousands) Earnings from continuing operations before taxes 3-6 % $12‚500-$25‚100 (rounded) Current Assets 3-6 % $67‚600-$135‚200 (rounded) Current Liabilities 3-6 %
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statement………………………………………………. Accounting concepts……………………………………………………………………… Factors that influence the nature and structure of accounting system……………….. Management control system…………………………………………………………….. Types of business risk……………………………………………………………………. Internal risk………………………………………………………………………. External risk……………………………………………………………………… Cadbury code…………………………………………………………………………….. Control system and procedure ………………………………………………………….. Types of fraud……………………………………………………………………………. Detection and implication for the
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INTRODUCTION; 2 DEFINITIONS 3 Auditing 3 Financial statements: 4 Educational institutions 4 FINANCIAL AUDITING: 5 Objectives of auditing: 5 Primary objects 6 Subsidiary objects: 6 General Principles Governing an Audit of Financial Statements 6 Qualities of an auditor: 7 Types of audit: 7 Statutory audits: 7 Private audits 7 Internal audits: 7 Required procedures: 8 Auditors report: 9 AUDITING OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 9 INTRODUCTION: 9 Background of auditing educational institutions:
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