QUESTION 1 (16 marks) Cash is the most vulnerable asset to audit. Answer the following questions; a) What are the three assertions an audit needs to establish? (6 marks) SOLUTION: Cash balances include cash on hand and at bank. Cash on hand includes undeposited receipts and petty cash. Cash at bank includes cash held in current and savings accounts which is available on demand. Unlike any other account balance‚ cash may be either an asset or a liability. The latter arises where the bank with which
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shareholders‚ there might be a bias against another group‚ such as prospective investors. a. What steps has the external auditing profession taken to minimize potential bias toward important users and thereby encourage auditor independence? ---The external auditing profession as a whole has became more concentrated on maintaining auditor independence and it is now one of the cornerstones of quality auditing. One way that independence can be violated is when an auditor shows bias towards an important
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Auditing Introduction Letter Lareina Mirabella ACC/546 November17‚ 2014 Kelly Oleary Auditing Introduction Letter November 17‚ 2014 Larry Lancaster President and CEO Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. Shoe town‚ Maine Dear Larry Lancaster Based on the accounting department meeting below is an outline of the primary assurance and attestation services offered by Mirabella Auditing Firm. This outline will provide the company with additional information regarding key distinction between these services offered as
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available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0951-3574.htm Value‚ profit and risk: accounting and the resource-based view of the firm Steven Toms The York Management School‚ University of York‚ Heslington‚ UK Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to argue that the principal components of the Resource-Based View (RBV) as a theory of sustained competitive advantage are not a sufficient basis for a complete and consistent theory of firm behaviour. Two missing elements are value theory and accountability mechanisms
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|3052 | |UNIT TITLE |Unit 11: Financial Systems and Auditing | |ASSIGNMENT TITLE |Accounting and Management Control Systems | |ASSIGNMENT NO |1 of 2
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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has the primary authority to establish accounting standards. True False 6. An annual peer review is a requirement of the AICPA. True False 7. Many small companies elect to have their financial statements reviewed by a CPA firm‚ rather than incur the cost of an audit. True False 8. Staff assistants in CPA firms generally are responsible for planning and coordinating audit engagements. True False
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1. Research online news services to identify recent developments impacting the accounting and auditing profession in Japan. Briefly summarize these developments in a bullet format. The 5-S auditing. Managerial Auditing Journal It has been recognized that Japanese firms are clean and orderly. The same is true for high quality western firms. Over the last two decades‚ the Japanese have formalized the technique and named it 5-S practice. As the name is new to most western societies‚ the objective
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Accounting Articulation Shelley Smith MAN104 July 6‚ 2013 Instructor Natalie Rufa Accounting Articulation “You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It’s the language of business and it’s an imperfect language…” – Warren Buffett lan·guage [lang-gwij] noun … any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people‚ who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another. If we use
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Introduction to Financial Statement Auditing Spring 2015 Section 422 Instructor: Devin Williams‚ CPA 1-1 Chapter 1 An Introduction to Assurance and Financial Statement Auditing Copyright © 2014 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. LO# 1 The Study of Auditing The study of auditing is different from other accounting courses that you have taken in college because … OTHER COURSES Rules‚ techniques and
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