following activities is an analytical procedure an auditor would perform in the final overall review stage of an audit to ensure that the financial statements are free from material misstatement? A. Reading the minutes of the board of directors’ meetings for the year under audit. B. Obtaining a letter concerning potential liabilities from the client’s attorney. C. Comparing the current year’s financial statements with those of the prior year. D. Ensuring that a representation letter signed by management
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years has risen‚ so is the world of business communication. Nowadays in world of business communication people using many different kind of latest communication technology. However‚ during old days‚ people used to write letters‚ held face-to-face meetings and many others in business. These changes are caused by the innovation of many new electronic tools such as wikis‚ teleconferences‚ personal digital assistants (PDAs) and many others which are to help the business to communicate more easily between
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Business Audit Definition: Business Audit are skills needed to run your business‚ examples include; Commitment to business‚ product/service skills and technical management skills. Skills need to run the business: * Time Management: As a sole trader this skill is needed because I will need to allocate specific time to projects and other areas of the business. This would allow me to focus certain amount of time to other assets of my company. * Understanding Responsibility: This is important
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assertions and audit objectives - Define management assertions and the related audit objectives - Describe management assertions related to class of transactions‚ balances and presentation and disclosures - List out and describe general transaction related audit objectives‚ balance related audit objectives and presentation and disclosure audit objectives - Understand specific audit objectives and how they are linked to general audit objectives and management assertions Topic 4 – Audit evidence
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Unfortunately‚ in recent times‚ we have seen a number of examples of unethical behavior in organizations‚ often tied to the organization’s handling of finances. In this question‚ discuss ethical issues facing the top leadership or financial managers in today’s corporate environment regarding their approach to the financial matters of the firm. What pressures exist that might encourage unethical behavior‚ particularly as it pertains to the firm’s financial reporting or situation? How might these be
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which exceeds materiality of $50‚000. c. The auditor should either propose an audit adjustment so that the unadjusted statement amount is less than materiality‚ and/or perform more testing to obtain a better estimate of the population misstatements. The additional testing will likely focus on receivables and inventory because they have the largest estimated misstatements. 9-28 a. The following terms are audit planning decisions requiring professional judgment: Preliminary judgment about materiality
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References: Gogoi‚ P. (2007). Bloomberg Businessweek. Wal-Mart’s latest ethics controversy. Retrieved From: http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-06-13/wal-marts-latest-ethics-controversybusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice
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Kay Lim Hung Professor Ortiz English Class 095-01 17 April 2013 The Right To Choose To Not Wear a Helmet Barry Millman wrote the article “ Motorcycle helmet law a no-brainer to both sides”‚ which expresses an argument from two different opinions about a controversial issue. The United States is known by the freedom‚ which is given to the entire citizens to express his or her own opinion. Therefor Americans will bring up their opinion toward any situation. Today the debate is among
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The article is about the horsemeat scandal that had a negative impact on the meat market thereby affecting some businesses‚ in particular Burger King. It was reported that some of its burgers were contaminated in the horsemeat scandal. There have been several reactions from customer due to this problem. Moreover‚ Burger King has apologised for the inconvenience caused through advertising posted in different newspaper though the burgers tested at the restaurants were proved to be negative compared
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Universiti Tenaga NasionalCollege of Business Management and Accounting
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