Auditing – acc546 (3 credits) In this course‚ students focus on the auditing practice performed by public accountants. Topics include the CPA profession and the auditor’s role‚ planning the audit‚ audit reporting and required communications‚ evaluating internal controls‚ audit programs for current assets and liabilities‚ and audit programs for other business cycles. This graduate-level course is 6 weeks. To enroll‚ speak with an Enrollment Advisor. Topics and Objectives The CPA Profession
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Running head: ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING Organizational Ethics in Accounting: A Comparison of Utilitarianism and Christian Deontological Principles Katherine Y. Masten A Senior Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation in the Honors Program Liberty University Spring 2012 1 ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING Acceptance of Senior Honors Thesis This Senior Honors Thesis is accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation from the Honors Program of Liberty University
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compliance with SOX? And why or why not? I agree with Apex to attain full compliance with SOX. As you know about Apex is private company and will be seeking for new external funding to expansion into a new segment of the printing sector therefore‚ the new investors are needed for them because they have to access capital market to raise money for the expansion to a lot invest in equipment as well as substract inventory and adding more promotional costs thus they have to going publics and this is a
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Generally Accepted Auditing Standards ACC/491 Contemporary Auditing 1 March 27‚ 2014 Richard A Cochran Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Generally Accepted Auditing Standards‚ also known as GAAS‚ are the most acknowledged auditing standards known. GAAS relates to the conduct of individual audit engagements and are a set of standards in which quality of audits are performed and may be judged. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has a division
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Outline four audit procedures you would carry out to verify the following items: i. Leased property ii. Goodwill (b) Makau and Associates‚ an accounting firm‚ are the auditors of Eastview Petroleum Ltd. For the year ended 31 December 2012. You are a member of the audit team and the following information relates to the client: 1. The company has six petrol stations located in different parts of the country and has a head office in the capital city. 2. Each petrol station sells fuel. In addition
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Accounting Regulation With the recent accounting discrepancies that have taken place in some of America’s largest and well known corporations greater importance is being placed on the creation and monitoring of financial reports. Some of these organizations which regulate how financial reports and compiled are private‚ given a charter by a federal agency‚ others were born from the creation of new laws and regulations‚ some are state agencies‚ and many more are private organizations made up of academics
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Effects Of technology On the Accounting Profession The accounting profession has experienced many different changes and as well as a tremendous amount of growth over the past century. (Schaefer‚ 1998) It’s unfortunate that due to unethical accounting practices there has been an increased need for advanced technology of accounting systems in order to better monitor what is going on with organizations. The need for real time reports and financial information at the click of a button seems
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Accounting‚ or accountancy‚ is the measurement‚ processing and communication of financial information about economic entities. Accounting‚ which has been called the "language of business"‚ measures the results of an organization ’s economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users including investors‚ creditors‚ management‚ and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. Accounting can be divided into several fields including financial accounting‚ management
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composition of the board of directors. The issue has taken on a high public profile as a result of reports in the popular press‚ shareholder proposals from advocacy groups‚ and policy statements from major institutional investors. This is simply stated as Board of diversity which means different things to different people. Among the types of diversity commonly described are: gender‚ national origin‚ race‚ sexual orientation and viewpoint. In my report I have selected three companies and have focused
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Accounting Ethics Accounting Ethics‚ Second Edition. Ronald Duska‚ Brenda Shay Duska‚ and Julie Ragatz © 2011 John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. Published 2011 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-405-19613-0 Foundations of Business Ethics Series editors: W. Michael Hoffman and Robert E. Frederick Written by an assembly of the most distinguished figures in business ethics‚ the Foundations of Business Ethics series aims to explain and assess the fundamental issues that motivate interest in each of
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