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    Marketing Audit

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    Explanation of what a marketing audit is: The purpose of a marketing audit is to review and appraise existing marketing activities and to look at the way the marketing is planned and managed‚ giving the opportunity for a systematic examination of each element of the organisations current marketing activity and achievements‚ and to objectively evaluate the effectiveness of the organisations investment in marketing. The marketing audit assists in the evaluation of the whole marketing activity‚ and

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    Audit Evidence This chapter deals with the types of evidence decisions auditors make‚ the evidence available to auditors‚ and the use of that evidence in performing audits. NATURE OF EVIDENCE • Evidence is any information used by the auditor to determine whether the information being audited is stated in accordance with the established criteria. • Evidence includes information that is highly persuasive‚ such as the auditor ’s count of marketable securities‚ and less persuasive information

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    The internal audit function plays a key role in assisting the board to discharge its governance responsibilities. Yet how does the board – and its audit committee – satisfy itself that internal audit is functioning effectively and efficiently? The board’s responsibility for internal controls Through working with a broad range of organisations in Australia and internationally‚ KPMG has identified a number of better practices in relation to the role played by the board audit and/or risk

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    Safeguards Objective Assessment a) The lending of staff by the firm to an audit client may create a self-review threat. (APES110.290.142) Referring to APES110‚290 142‚ it states that if the firm lend the staff to audit client‚ and it will create the self-review threat. The possible safeguards are as following: Pay more attention on the work done by the loaned staff while in audit engagement. Do not assign any audit responsibility to the task that is performed by that loaned staff. Remove

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    AUDIT PLANNING Audit planning procedures are the first and perhaps the most important step in carrying out a successful audit. Without adequate planning‚ the likelihood of missing a significant risk area or encountering engagement-related problems increases considerably. As baseball great and noted philosopher‚ Yogi Berra puts it‚ “If you don’t plan on where you are going‚ you could end up someplace different!” All too often the auditor does not give adequate attention to audit planning for a vast

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    Information Limited Jul 9‚ 2002 Ron Beaumont‚ chief operating officer of WorldCom‚ is one of several senior executives who should have been aware of discrepancies in the telecommunications company’s books before the near-$4bn fraud was revealed last month‚ according to people close to the company. The fraud that was allegedly engineered by Scott Sullivan‚ the chief financial officer who was fired the day the scandal was announced‚ led to a massive overstatement of WorldCom’s capital spending -

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    1. Political/legal: The first operating license from the department of conservation was only for 30 days‚ for those 30 days 28 people paid $75 dollars each to leap off the 43m bridge‚ but it wasn’t long before word spread and New Zealand and Queenstown in particular were considered prime destinations on the world adventure tourism map. Economic: AJ Hackett Bungy had a huge economic effect on New Zealand because it put New Zealand on the adventure tourism map and helped to bring more visitors

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    WorldCom was one of the leading telecommunication companies prior to its application for bankruptcy protection on July 21st‚ 2002. The firm’s decision to file for bankruptcy was a shocker move considering the amount of revenues and asset base the company had. It is believed that the firm was highly involved in fraudulent bookkeeping between the year 1999 and 2000 where they had managed to overstate its taxable income by at least $7 billion. It was also revealed that the company had committed itself

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    Softlogic Holding Ltd. • Auditors role in Corporate Governance • Audit Committee of Softlogic Holding Ltd. • Audit Committee’s influence in Corporate Governance protocols at Softlogic Holdings • The Cadbury Committee and Softlogic’s Corporate Governance Strategy • Analysis • Recommendations Introduction • International Standard on Auditing (ISA) 260: “Communications of Audit Matters with Those Charged with Governance” • Governance is the term used

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