ACC621 Midterm review Internal auditing is an independent objective assurance and consulting acitivity designed to add value and improve an organizations operations. Adding value is provided by improving opportunities to achieve organizational objectives identifying operational improvement reducing risk through exposure through both assurance and consulting. Auditing has its key components - accomplish objectives -evaluate and improve effectiveness of risk management -assurance and consulting
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1. Assertions about classes of transactions and events: I. Occurrence: transactions and events so recorded in the financial statements actually occurred and relates to the same period. II. Completeness: all such transactions and events that required recording have been recorded III. Accuracy: transactions and ancillary information have been recorded with accurate amounts IV. Cutoff: only those transactions and events have been recorded that pertains to the accounting period under consideration
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The assignment for GSLC‚ November 8‚ 2013 (05PAF SMART CLASS) Read the Chapter of “Motivation” and answer the following questions. 1. Identify five different criteria by which organizations can compensate employees. Based on your knowledge and experience‚ do you think performance is the criterion most used in practice? Discuss. 5 Different Criteria by which organizations can compensate employees: Discipline Results Contribution Diligence Attitude Yes‚ we do think that performance is
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Chapter 1 SOLUTIONS FOR EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS 1.47 Audit‚ Attestation‚ and Assurance Services Students may encounter some difficulty with this matching question because the Special Committee on Assurance Services (SCAS) listed many things that heretofore have been considered “attestation services” (long before assurance services were invented). As a result‚ we believe that this question is a good vehicle for discussing the considerable overlap between attestation and assurance services.
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International Accounting – Chapter 1 1. Explain why an individual investor might want to invest in an international growth fund. An individual investor might want to invest in an international growth fund if they are seeking to become more diversified. During times when the US stock market is poorly performing‚ it is likely that its foreign counterparts will be doing well because the two markets often have an inverse relationship. An investor might also want to invest in an international growth
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Assignment 1 Name: Leung Hiu Ting Student no.10348622 Course : Auditing a. Outline the main reasons for a company requiring an external audit. Nowadays‚ a lot of company’s ownership and management is separated. It had major influences for auditing. Shareholders were concerned that their funds may not be used in proper ways to maximize the value of the company by appointed managers. For example‚ management may distort or withhold material information in their financial statements for personal
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other areas. True 4.A system is a set of elements or components that interact to accomplish a goal 5.A measure of what is produced divided by what is consumed is known as efficiency. 6.A specific objective of a system is called a performance standard. True. 7.A computer-based information system (CBIS) consists of hardware‚ software‚ databases‚ telecommunications‚ people and procedures. 8.Computer programs that govern the operation of a computer system are called software. 9. Payroll
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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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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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followed the proper auditing standards when conducting an audit. This means that if Yost were to find nothing‚ they would not be responsible. c. She will most likely win due to negligence. The company is responsible for implementing internal controls‚ and the president’s statement about the inventory count shows how it couldnt be her fault. First City National Bank is not going to win their suit for one simple reason; the courts found that Yost followed the proper standards when consucting the
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