ACC 624 Information Technology Auditing Spring‚ 2013 Ram Engira Office: BENT Hall 364 Hours: By appointment ONLY Telephone: Cell (917)597-9523 e-Mail: Currently engirar@stjohns.edu or rengira@gmail.com The Course: This course provides an overview of controls relating to IT governance‚ databases and their structures‚ networks‚ client servers systems‚ IT service delivery‚ business continuity‚ disaster recovery‚ IS security‚ cryptography‚ firewalls‚ IDS‚ IPS‚ backups‚ recovery‚ and
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companies who pursue a triple-bottom-line outcome. Campbell Soup Company has been environmentally conscious and socially responsible since 1953. The Campbell Soup Foundation has been supporting local communities where employees live and work financially. Campbell Soup’s headquarters is located in Camden‚ New Jersey where they donate approximately $1 million each year to impact the local residents in a positive manner (Campbell Soup Foundation). They focus on hunger relief‚ childhood obesity and
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North Face North Face Tabitha E. Taylor Professor Ashley Harper Advanced Auditing May 05‚ 2013 As an auditor‚ my job is to examine companies’ financial statements and make sure the information correctly reflects the economic events that occurred during the accounting period. When a mistake is found the auditor determines if the misstatement is material or immaterial. Misstatements are material when they affect a person’s decision using the financial statements and are immaterial if there
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Auditing‚ 12e (Arens) Chapter 1 The Demand for an Auditing and Assurance Profession 1.1 Identify the components of an audit and explain why there is a demand for audits 1) Which of the following illustrates the definition of auditing with respect to the evidence analysis process? A) accumulation and evaluation of evidence about balance sheet accounts B) learning about different types of computing technology‚ such as mainframes C) writing an operational audit report that is tailored to the client’s
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Nature of Auditing and the Public Accounting Profession 1. Auditing neither creates goods nor adds utility to existing goods and therefore does not add value to business. Auditing exists only because it has been legally mandated. Auditing exists because it is needed by the company. It is beneficial to users who need assurance if their financial statements reflect economic conditions that occurred in a period. Without reliable information‚ companies might make less effective decisions which
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(Components of internal control) The chapter identified five components of internal control. Listed below are specific control policies and procedures prescribed by Suntron Company. 1. Management gives careful consideration to the requisite knowledge and skills personnel need at all levels of the organization. Control environment. Planning‚ executing‚ controlling‚ and monitoring and entity’s activity is what is used to develop an overall framework for an entity to meet its objectives. 2
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produce credible results and "had the potential to undermine investor confidence in the integrity of the securities markets" (The Treasury‚ 2006). As a consequence a number of countries have reviewed their arrangements for independent oversight of the auditing profession. The United States‚ for example‚ has introduced tough external audit regulation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Canada has also introduced a regulator with extensive powers‚ including a national inspections unit as independent monitor
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Philadelphia‚ PA 19104-2875 Douglas Ziegenfuss College of Business and Public Administration Old Dominion University Norfolk‚ VA 23529 dziegenf@odu.edu November 28‚ 2010 We thank the Institute of Internal Auditors for access to the Global Auditing Information Network (GAIN) database. We thank Chris Hogan‚ Barry Brian‚ and seminar participants at the University of Tennessee for their helpful comments. a Corresponding author The Impact of Internal Audit Function Quality and Contribution on
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Campbell Soup Company is the world’s leading maker and marketer of soup. Campbell products are sold in 120 countries around the globe. Campbell Soup has came out with a few ways to generate ideas for its new products‚ it include survey‚ getting feedbacks from their consumer or even those people who are not working with Campbell Soup‚ market analysis‚ build up an internal research and development team and create opportunity for people to communicate with Campbell Soup to enhance or generate new concept
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market leader for canned‚ condensed soups‚ it has found the size of that market shrink_ ing in recent years. But thanks to Carl lohnson‚ chief strate_ gl‚officer of Campbell Soup Co.‚ the company is introducing new products that are propelling a surprising turnaround at a 57 billion company that has long struggled for growth. Lifestyle changes in today’s world have given rise to shopper classifications knor‚rm to
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