ACCT20040—Auditing and Ethical Practice Assignment 1 The collapse of Harris Scarfe----Auditing failure Submitted by: Due date: 16/08/2007 Word count: 3020 Table of content Introduction 1 History of retailer Harris Scarfe 2 Audit committee of Harris Scarfe 3 Audit independence 5 Legal liability of auditors 6 Implications for the future of the Australian auditing profession 7 Conclusion 9 Reference 11 The collapse of Harris Scarfe----Auditing failure Introduction
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Q2: Accounting issues In 2001‚ Harris Scarfe’s suppliers and customers‚ and even a large number of the company’s staff‚ were shocked when the thriving business was suddenly faced with cash-flow problems. The company made headlines in South Australia when concerned suppliers‚ from whom Harris Scarfe had purchased large amounts of stock on credit‚ entered the flagship store in Rundle Mall‚ and began retrieving their stock directly from the shelves‚ before shocked staff and customers. The company
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716-645-3302 drury@buffalo.edu Abstract: Human error is cited as a major causal factor in most aviation mishaps‚ including the 15% - 20% that involve maintenance error. Errors can be described as active failures that lead directly to the incident‚ and latent failures whose presence provokes the active failure. Typical aviation maintenance errors are presented as examples and two approaches to human error reduction given: incident based and task analysis based. Each approach provides data on performance
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types. Compute common financial ratios. 8-2 8-3 The bankruptcy of Enron Corporation‚ at one time the nation’s largest energy wholesaling company‚ represents the biggest corporate collapse in American history. Despite being listed as No. 7 on the Fortune 500 list with a market capitalization of $75 billion before its collapse‚ the meltdown of Enron was rapid. The fall began in October 2001 when Enron officials reported a shocking $618 million quarterly loss related to allegedly mysterious and hidden related
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BF3394 – AUDITING AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Module Number: Module Title: BF3394 AUDITING & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS 10 credits Number of Aston Credits: Total Number of ECTS Credits: 5 credits (European Credit Transfer) Staff Member Responsible for the Module: Dr Melina Manochin Finance and Accounting Group ABS Building‚ Room 410‚ Extension 3732 m.m.manochin@aston.ac.uk Availability: Please see office hours on door or group administrator‚ Ms Rosaleen Shirley‚ ABS 404‚ Extension 3238 Other Staff
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(E-Comm. Sem-VI) STRUCTURE Subject Code Name Marks E 6.1 Auditing 100 E 6.2 Information System Audit 100 E 6.3 Competitive Skills 100 E 6.4 JAVA Programming 100 E 6.5 Practical 100 E 6.6 Project 100 North Maharashtra University‚ Jalgaon (NACC Re-Accredited ‘B’ Grade University) FACULTY OF COMMERCE & MANAGEMENT B.B.M.(E-Comm.) Semester VI E – 6.1 Auditing 80 + 20 Pattern: External Marks 80 + Internal Marks 20 = Maximum Total
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information to the auditor in order to lower the expected loss from litigation or related settlements. This describes which theory of auditing? a. explanatory. b. agency. c. information hypothesis. d. insurance hypothesis. 5. Which of these actions is most likely to remove the audit expectation gap? a. improving auditing standards b. educating of audit users about what are reasonable expectations c. improving auditor’s performance
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any audit? Explain clearly 4) What is professional clearance? What is the importance of professional clearance in auditing? 5) An audit fee is an auditor’s remuneration. In what ways can the aspect of audit fees affect auditors’ independence? 6) Explain clearly the ethical codes that are required of any professional auditor? 7) Audit planning is an important input in the auditing assignment‚ discuss. 8) Assume you are an experienced auditor with an audit firm in Dar. Your senior has requested
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and retained. The Professional Practices Framework for Internal Auditing (PPF) was designed by The IIA Board of Directors’ Guidance Task Force to appropriately organize the full range of existing and developing practice guidance for the profession. Based on the definition of internal auditing‚ the PPF comprises Ethics and Standards‚ Practice Advisories‚ and Development and Practice Aids‚ and paves the way to world-class internal auditing. This guidance fits into the Framework under the heading Development
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accordance with an identified financial reporting framework. An auditor is setting out to achieve enhanced credibility of information disclosed to increase reliability for the users of the financial statements. A definition from the Committee on Basic Auditing is as follows: 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
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