NATURE of AUDITING‚ ATTESTATION AND ASSURANCE SERVICES Let us understand a few terminologies before going further in the discussion of the details of auditing and assurance since these terms will be used often throughout the text. Auditing‚ attestation and assurance services are often used interchangeably because they encompass the same decision-process: defining the decision problem‚ defining the alternative choices‚ identifying and obtaining information relevant to the decision problem‚ evaluating
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EXERCISE 2–1 Classifying Manufacturing Costs [LO1] Your Boat‚ Inc.‚ assembles custom sailboats from components supplied by various manufacturers. The company is very small and its assembly shop and retail sales store are housed in a Gig Harbor‚ Washington‚ boathouse. Below are listed some of the costs that are incurred at the company. Required: For each cost‚ indicate whether it would most likely be classified as direct labor‚ direct materials‚ manufacturing overhead‚ selling‚ or an
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Memorandum University of Phoenix DATE: October 7‚ 2013 TO: Tammy Johnson FROM: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx RE: Sarbanes-Oxley Can Fix Government Retrieved on 10/5/2013 from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/sarbanes-oxley_can_fix_government.html ARTICLE SYNOPSIS The recent events in the news pertaining to the government shows that there is a problem and that a reform is needed in the near future. The things happening in the governments shows that they are becoming a bigger entity
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Enron used multiple strategic partners to help cover up their accounting schemes. Houston law firm Vinson & Elkins’ top client was Enron. The law firm wrote opinion letters supporting the legality of the deals Enron was making even though they were illegal. Additionally‚ Arthur Andersen LLP was Enron’s auditor. More than 100 employees at Arthur Andersen were dedicated to Enron’s account. The firm was a major business partner of Enron and some Arthur Andersen executives accepted jobs with Enron. Some
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Audit Documentation Purpose: 1. Main evidence of procedures‚ work performed on audit 2. Prepare sufficient & appropriate audit documentation on timely basis 3. enhance audit quality 4. facilitate effective review 5. evaluate audit evidence obtained & conclusions reached before finalizing auditor’s report 6. assisting audit team plan & perform for audit 7. assist audit team members’ supervise & direct audit work‚ discharge responsibilities (Quality Control
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Factors Between Private Companies and Public Companies Generally speaking Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB)’s primary purpose is to develop General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). GAAP might not concern the whole areas of accounting criteria‚ FASB look up and adjust accounting standard to make sure standards have been updated to follow current situation. On July 31‚ 2012‚ FASB issued an Invitation to Comment‚ which reviewed key areas of the Private Company Decision-Making Framework
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risk too low. 3. A number of factors influence the sample size for a substantive test of details of an account balance. All other factors being equal‚ which of the following would lead to a larger sample size? A. Greater reliance on internal accounting controls. B. Greater reliance on analytical review procedures. C. Smaller expected frequency of misstatements. D. Smaller measure of tolerable misstatements. 4. Which of the following sample planning factors would influence the sample size
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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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Campbell Soup Company 1. Identify legitimate business practices that corporate executives can use for the primary purpose of manipulating or “managing” their company’s reported operating results. Are such practices ethical? Defend your answer. Some examples of legitimate business practices that executives can use to manage their company’s reported operating results include: offering customers extended payment terms at the end of the a period to accelerate sales‚ recording generous reserves
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5 reflections related to auditing standards and each case was extracted from internet sources. The purpose of this report is to reflect and understand each case. REFLECTIONS First reflection is on China sky case for its non-compliances with SGX. Next is the case on corporate governance where new rules were proposed to improve risk management and risk control. Third will be the extracted information of executives’ compensation in Australian companies. Then‚ the forth reflection
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