ZZZZ Best Company Inc. Introduction This paper explores the ZZZZ Best Company which was begun by a 16 year old individual who was able to pull the wool over the eyes of many customers‚ investors and auditors. This paper will define the difference between review and audit when it comes to financial reports‚ comments on the procedures provided with regard to the management assertion of occurrence‚ verification of payments for jobs and how they can lead auditors to improper conclusion‚ the purpose
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FINAL SPEECH (Persuasive Problem-Solution) Purpose: To inform and persuade your audience that a specific problem exists‚ it is serious‚ and it affects them. Time: 6-8 minutes Topic: Choose a topic that interests you and would probably interest your audience (the class). Consider what your audience already knows about this topic and what their attitude about this topic will be. Do not choose something the audience already knows a lot about. This topic must be presented in a persuasive
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ZZZZ Best company is one of the biggest examples of Accounting Frauds. The founder of ZZZZ best was Barry Minkow. He was a very smart young entrepreneur when he started the company. He was involved in credit card forgeries prior to starting his own carpet cleaning business “ZZZZ Best Company”. Minkow began his business with small carpet cleaning jobs and he became a multimillionaire in a very short period of time. Minkow met a person named Tom Padgett at Los Angeles Health club. This was the beginning
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ACC 461 Auditing Financial Statement Fraud: Lessons from the ZZZZ Best Case The video “Cooking the Books” discussed the ZZZZ Best case of fraud‚ it tells how and why fraud was perpetrated by Barry Minkow and why it was undetected for so long. According to the video‚ ZZZZ Best was founded by Barry Minkow in 1982; when he was sixteen years old‚ it started as a carpet cleaning company. But‚ due to high competition in the industry‚ low entry barriers‚ and bad internal control‚ this young entrepreneur
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Auditing Concepts ZZZZ Best Company‚ Inc Case Solutions: 1. A review is performed to obtain a reasonable basis for providing limited assurance that the client’s financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. An independent audit is designed to provide a reasonable basis for expressing an opinion concerning whether or not a client’s financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
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investigate further and gather evidence in order to support the numbers given in the financial statements. This type of review report does not provide enough assurance that is needed in order to have a better understanding made by management. In the case of ZZZZ Best‚ Minkow retained Ernst & Whinney to perform the following year’s audit. However‚ instead of performing an Audit‚ they decided to provide a review of the company’s financial statements for the three-month period ending July 31‚ 1986. They
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Case Study – ZZZ Best‚ Inc. 1. Ernst & Whinney never issued an audit opinion on financial statements of ZZZZ Best but did issue a review report on the company’s quarterly statements for three months ended July 31‚ 1986. How does a review differ from an audit particularly in terms of the level of assurance implied by auditor’s report? A quarterly review report is issued by a CPA and reviewed by an auditor to provide assurance that the financial statements are fair and follow the GAAP standards. Quarterly
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Topic: ZZZZ Best Company One of the most elaborate and frauds in the United States corporate history was done by a man named Barry Minkow during the 1980s. At the age of 12 Barry got involved with the carpet cleaning business through his mother. One of the good things for a young person of Barry’s age is that this industry is fairly simple to get into. Therefore it required no prerequisite abilities or permits. However what Barry Minkow did not expect was the high tolerance required in order to
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loyalty. She wanted to know how the Company could build an Asia-specific CRM process blueprint for their internal customer management process and transfer that knowledge to its clients. The strategy team had a four-week deadline to present its solutions. Grey Global Group was a full communications enterprise with 16 global partner companies focused on distinct communications disciplines and engaged in a wide range of marketing and
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industry. If he would have performed these routine procedures‚ Gray would have realized that ZZZZ Bests reported insurance restoration revenue was grossly overstated. Furthermore‚ AS No.9.7 states that the auditor should have knowledge of the “company’s internal control over financial reporting obtained during other engagements performed by the auditor.” Larry Gray did obtain any information regarding ZZZZ Bests internal control over financial reporting during other engagements and took a rather standardized
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