The following are independent situations and you should refer to APES (Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards 110 “Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants”) and the Corporations Act 2001 as a minimum for each situation. You need to identify any breaches (under what section) and why. You should also consider any remedy or alternative course of action that should have been considered for each where appropriate. There is no word limit set for this assignment but it is expected that each
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client’s business and industry. Assess client business risk. Perform preliminary analytical procedures. State the purposes of analytical procedures and the timing of each purpose. Select the most appropriate analytical procedure from among the five major 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
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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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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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BCAF-05: ADVANCED AUDITING (MAJOR) Objective: This course aims at imparting knowledge about the advanced methods of auditing and there applications. Unit- I: Audit of Limited Companies: Inspection of documents Books and Registers. Audit of Preliminary expanses‚ profit prior to incorporation‚ public deposits‚ managerial remunerations‚ share capital. The Visible profits and dividends- meaning‚ provisions of Companies act in regard to declaration and payment of dividend. Auditor’s
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AUDITING 4 INTERNAL CONTROL In business control is required for optimum utilizatiion of resources and for maximising the profits.business operations are carried on with the help of human agents and equipments.both require supervision to ensure that tasks assigned to them are carried out properly to avoid wastes and losses. Internal control required for small business is not identical with that required for a large business in the sense that in case of the former‚the entire control
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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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the audit? The types of auditing samples are broken down into two different categories: statistical and non-statistical sampling. The purpose of auditing samples are designed to give the auditor the results he or she seeks‚ without having to completely audit 100% of the items within the audit population. Here are some of the different types of auditing samples broken out into the two categories: Statistical Sampling Methods: Random Sampling – Is an auditing method that basically means
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Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of internal control
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According to Paragraph 4 of Auditing Standard No. 3 (PCAOB 2004)‚ “The auditor must prepare audit documentation in connection with each engagement conducted pursuant to the standards of the PCAOB. Audit documentation should be prepared in sufficient detail to provide a clear understanding of its purpose‚ source‚ and the conclusions reached. Also‚ the documentation should be appropriately organized to provide a clear link to the significant findings or issues.” Referring to Paragraph 4‚ the audit
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