Auditing procedures: Five assertions: 1. Occurrence: Define: transactions and events that have been recorded have occurred and pertain to the entity. Explain: sales and purchases shown in the income statement belong to the company and are real‚ that is they actually took place. 2. Completeness: Define: all transactions and events that should have been recorded have been recorded. Explain: all the individual transactions making up the balances in the income statement are recorded; no sales
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Sciences – Volume 21‚ Number 3 (2011) Dysfunctional Audit Behaviour: The Effect of Budget Emphasis Leadership Behaviour‚ and Effectiveness of Audit Review Halil Paino‚ Azlan Thani Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang‚ Malaysia E-mail: halil@pahang.uitm.edu.my Tel: +60193992676 Fax: +6094602245 Syed Iskandar Zulkarnain Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang‚ Malaysia Abstract Dysfunctional audit behaviour is an accepted problem‚ associated with decreased audit quality. This study develops and tests a theoretical
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Managerial Auditing Journal Emerald Article: Audit evidence: the US standards and landmark cases Rocco R. Vanasco‚ Clifford R. Skousen‚ Richard L. Jenson Article information: To cite this document: Rocco R. Vanasco‚ Clifford R. Skousen‚ Richard L. Jenson‚ (2001)‚"Audit evidence: the US standards and landmark cases"‚ Managerial Auditing Journal‚ Vol. 16 Iss: 4 pp. 207 - 214 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02686900110389151 Downloaded on: 30-04-2012 References: This
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Strategic Systems Audit Introduction As the organizations’ business strategies are becoming more complex over time‚ the auditing practices have been evolving correspondingly over the last century (Bell et al. 1997‚ 10)‚ from a transaction-based audit prior to 1900‚ to risk-based audit approach during the twentieth century to today’s “Strategic Systems Audit” (SSA) as promoted by Solomon and Peecher over the last several years to reinvent the financial statement audit. Strategic Systems Audit focuses on
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debacle and series of high profile failures of financial services firms‚ the issues about ‘audit expectation gap’ have never been more important. Though it would take an enormous amount of effort to address these issues‚ I will argue that tremendous amounts could be done in order to close the gap down. In this essay I will discuss some of these issues and in particular the strategies to reduce the gap. Definitions Various definitions have been proposed for the audit expectation gap. Humphrey‚ Moizer
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eventually drawn into Livent’s fraudulent schemes by its principal architects‚ including Maria Messina‚ the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). Messina‚ a former partner with Deloitte & Touche’s Canadian affiliate‚ had previously served as Livent’s audit engagement partner. The fraud unraveled following Livent’s takeover by an investment group led by Hollywood mogul Michael Ovitz. The new management team installed by Ovitz soon found that “massive‚ systematic irregularities” permeated the company’s
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PLANNING THE IT OPERATIONS AUDIT The mere mention of an "audit" is enough to make anyone nervous. But‚ put in proper perspective‚ an audit of IT operational policies and procedures is an effective means of assessing the viability of IT services and functions. An audit will serve its intended purpose if two primary objectives are reached: 1. Audit goals are clearly defined in advance‚ stating the purpose of the audit and the expected results. 2. Audit results are applied to improve
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execution of the strategy at various stages First you have to decide how you are going to tackle the audit. That’s the big picture. It could be that you decide there are no good internal controls. Your strategy would then be to not do any TOCs and concentrate on substantive procedures. Having decided that then you have to plan how you will use substantive procedures to get sufficient appropriate audit evidence. If your strategy is not to do any tests of control‚ then the detailed plan will take that
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Failure in Care Homes Every year there are around 800 fires in homes providing care for older persons in the UK. On average 5 people die each year and a further 90 are injured.Over the past 10 years 45 people have died and 1000 have been injured. Added to this is the true cost of pain‚suffering and impact on families and careworkers. Primary causes of fires in care homes are faulty electrical appliances or wiring‚ cooking facilities‚ smoking related combustion‚ misuse of equipment and deliberate
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Bibliography Textbooks and literature 1) Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation‚ Entrepreneurial Development within Organisations‚ Second Edition‚ Thompson Southwestern‚ M. Morris‚ D. Kuratko‚ and J. Govin. 2) Crafting and Executing Strategy‚ South African Edition. Text‚ Reading‚ and Cases. J. Hough‚ A. Thompson‚ A. Strickland‚ and J. Gamble McGraw Hill 3) Strategic Management of Technological Innovation Second Edition‚ 2008
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