Theresa Golding BA 418 – Auditing Dr. Charles Pineno April 25‚ 2010 PART 1: “Small Firms May Face Audit Music” (published in The Wall Street Journal on April 19‚ 2007) addresses the ending of the delay in applying portions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to smaller companies. At the time of the article‚ some 6‚000 smaller public companies had yet to be required to “make an annual assessment of their internal financial-reporting controls with further review by the company’s outside auditor of
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Chapter 5 18. a. They should use the resistance of meeting auditing standards and contributory neglegence. Stuart Supply Company management is responsible for the fraud. The fraud was complicated and difficult to discover‚ but the steps recommended by Lauren Yost & Co made it possible. The president of Stuart Supply Company ignored the proposal to count the inventory on the same day‚ and was therefore responsible to breakdown of detecting the fraud due to his decision. Luckily‚ Lauren Yost & Co
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internal auditors should provide assurance and consulting on – the scope of internal auditing (governance‚ risk management and control processes). Standard 2100 is one such injunction – “The internal audit activity must evaluate and contribute to the improvement of governance‚ risk management‚ and control processes using a systematic and disciplined approach.” What are these processes that internal auditing has to evaluate and contribute to the improvement of? The best way to describe them
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Jessica Schmitt Auditing Chapter 9‚ problem 9-28 A. Since there are no specific materiality guidelines‚ it is the auditor’s professional judgment that must be used to determine the appropriate preliminary estimates of materiality. I used the guidelines listed on pg 251 in figure 9-2: Statement Percent Guideline Dollar Range (in thousands) Earnings from continuing operations before taxes 3-6 % $12‚500-$25‚100 (rounded) Current Assets 3-6 % $67‚600-$135‚200 (rounded) Current Liabilities 3-6 %
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1. Consider PepsiCo’s advertising throughout its history. Identify as many commonalities as possible across its various ad campaigns: a. Some of the earlier slogans have the commonality that you get more bang for your buck‚ that when you buy Pepsi you get more of flavor‚ amount and/or whatever than the competition offers. Pepsi is for everyone and that Pepsi alone can refresh or change the world. Many slogans have to deal with being young as well as being in the future. Most of the slogans indicate
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weren’t for the suggestion made by Yost. As you can see‚ the president of the company had a hand in covering it up based on the statement released by the company. b. This is actually quite simple. First‚ privity of contract. Privity of contract means that the contract only applys to the people involved with contract‚ thus making the bank an innocent third party. The second defense is that Yost followed the proper auditing standards when conducting an audit. This means that if Yost were to find nothing
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questions. Some of the relevant questions that audit committee members should ask the external auditor include all of the following except: A) How do you assess the competence of company personnel engaged in financial reporting and related processes? B) What are the most significant risks to financial reporting at this company? C) What level of assurance do your procedures provide with respect to the annual financial statements? D) How do you calculate materiality and what is your materiality threshold
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Hoang Thi Thanh Ha – 13200154 Auditing Assignment 2: 1.What are the factors to consider Inherent Risk? Inherent risk is a measure of the auditor’s assessment of the likelihood that there are material misstatements in a segment before considering the effectiveness of internal control. Factors affecting assessment of inherent risk include: Nature of the client’s business : Industry practices Non-routine transactions Makeup of the population Audit experience : Results of previous audits Initial vs
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evaluate the effectiveness of accounting system‚ business methods for detection for fraud and planning and conduct of an audit process as well as purpose and content of a statutory audit report of Tesco Supermarket. Past failures in the process of auditing financial
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Currently in the United States‚ 44 million adults live in poverty. Poverty is defined for a single person as an income level below $10‚830 or less than $22‚050 for a family. The vast majority of the homeless are jobless individuals and families that cannot afford shelter. An astounding 700‚000 to 800‚000 Americans are homeless on a given night and 2.5 million to 3.5 million are homeless at some point during the year. 28 million employed Americans are considered to be at poverty level. About two-thirds
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