Information Technology Auditing MGMT 550 Cassandra Rich April 28‚ 2014 Information technology auditing is important to the financial auditor and to the financial statement audit because IT is the foundation of today’s accounting systems. IT audits are crucial for ensuring that a company’s financial statements are a representation of the company’s position and that the system used to compile the statements is operating properly and producing accurate statements. IT auditing allows the auditors
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External Auditing – Week 4 discussion What do following risk categories mean: planned detection risk‚ inherent risk‚ control risk‚ acceptable audit risk? Can you give some examples? How do we as auditors deal with them? DETECTION RISK Detection risk is the risk that auditor’s substantive procedures will not detect a misstatement that exist in an account balance or class of transactions that could be material‚ individually or when aggregated with misstatements in other balances or classes.
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Based on the facts available at this juncture‚ it seems unlikely that the insured would be successful in proving that the doctrines of waiver or estoppel applied in order to preclude Amica from relying on its policy defense. In the event that this case proceeded to litigation‚ it is possible that the Insured could allege a set of facts sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss that it was induced to refrain from an activity that prejudiced it in its litigation
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Case 3.3 1. Identify and briefly describe fundamental and cost-effective internal controls that charitable organizations could implement to reduce their exposure to theft losses. Fraud has been on the rise over the past decades‚ and America’s charitable communities have not been immune to these acts. With the tremendous expanding‚ charity organizations have controlled a lot of financial and nonfinancial resources. While it is common that many small and medium-size volunteer organizations have lack
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Auditing a Publicly Traded Company Share-based compensation are avenues used to give employees equity rights into a company. There are two types: stock options and restricted stock. The reasoning for employees to have share-based benefits‚ according to Basu (2014)‚ “is that if they all have a stake in the value of the company’s shares‚ they may try harder to drive sales‚ profits and other financial metrics that investors and research analysts look for in stocks” (para. 1). One of the main disadvantages
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Auditing Concepts ZZZZ Best Company‚ Inc Case Solutions: 1. A review is performed to obtain a reasonable basis for providing limited assurance that the client’s financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. An independent audit is designed to provide a reasonable basis for expressing an opinion concerning whether or not a client’s financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
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ACC 235: Auditing EXHIBIT 4.53 Dunder-Mifflin‚ Inc.‚ Prior Year (Audited)‚ Forecast Current Year‚ Current Year Actual (Unaudited) Prior year Forecast Current Year Revenue and Expense: Sales (net) $9‚000‚000 $9‚900‚000 $9‚720‚000 Cost of Goods Sold 6‚296‚000 6‚926‚000 7‚000‚000 Gross Margin 2‚704‚000 2‚974‚000 2‚720‚000 General Expense 2‚044‚000 2‚000‚000 2‚003‚000 Depreciation 300‚000 334‚000 334‚000 Operating Income $360‚000 $640‚000 $383‚000 Interest
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respect that the writer has chosen this topic: The impact of Internal auditing in the telecommunication industry with Vodafone Ghana Limited as the case study. 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Mautz and Sharaf (1961) defines auditing as a systematic process of objectivity; obtaining and evaluating evidence against assertion and established criteria and commence communicating the results to interested users. Internal auditing is an independent appraisal functions established within an organization
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Comment on the 10 major steps in the fraud risk model 1. Understand the nature of fraud by identifying the factors associated with fraud that are outlined in the fraud triangle. The factors include rationalization‚ opportunity‚ and incentive (ROI). Incentive/pressure to commit fraud Fraudulent financial reporting Management compensation schemes Financial pressures to improve company’s earnings and balance sheet Personal wealth tied to either financial results or survival of company Defalcation
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fundamental and cost-effective internal controls that charitable organizations could implement to reduce exposure to theft losses. I am confused by the shear disregard for internal controls at many charitable organizations as described in the United Way case. Cost minimization is a factor for nonprofits‚ but losing millions of dollars to fraud seems foolish when they could have just spent a fraction of that to put proper internal controls into place. Outlined below are several fundamental internal controls
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