NATURE of AUDITING‚ ATTESTATION AND ASSURANCE SERVICES Let us understand a few terminologies before going further in the discussion of the details of auditing and assurance since these terms will be used often throughout the text. Auditing‚ attestation and assurance services are often used interchangeably because they encompass the same decision-process: defining the decision problem‚ defining the alternative choices‚ identifying and obtaining information relevant to the decision problem‚ evaluating
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Qiong Wu Instructor James Dutra ACC 412 March 26‚ 2014 Case 3.1 Dodgers Trolley Summary The Dodgers Trolley case is a simple problem related the internal control in auditing. Dodgers Trolley was original funded in New York‚ but Yankees performed much better. After nearly seven decades of mostly frustration on and off the baseball field‚ the Dodgers shocked the sports world by moving to Los Angeles in 1958‚ because Walter O’Malley saw the opportunity to introduce baseball to the increasing
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Q: “Auditing begins where accounting ends. State points of difference between accounting and auditing? “Auditing begins where accounting ends” Accounting is a process of maintaining business records. Joint stock companies are required by law to maintain proper record of business transactions. Maintaining books of accounts and preparing financial statement is a prime responsibility of directors. The shareholders are ambitious to see that their investment is safe. It is therefore imperative
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played a major role in these events. While the story behind these corporate failures is always complex‚ a lack of ethical behaviour by many individuals is a big part of it. For the audit profession‚ these developments have again highlighted the gap between public expectations and the reality of the role of the auditor. With Enron in particular‚ the public perception was that the auditor should have acted as a control on unscrupulous management practices. The conclusion reached by many members of the
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Chapter 1 An overview of auditing Multiple Choice 1. The three major professional accounting bodies in Australia are: a. ICAA‚ CPA and ASIC. b. CPA Australia‚ NIA and AARF. c. ATO‚ AUASB and ASIC. d. ICAA‚ CPA Australia and NIA. The correct option is d. Feedback: Section 1.3 The auditing environment 2. Which body has a mission ‘to develop‚ in the public interest‚ high-quality auditing and assurance standards and related guidance to enhance the relevance‚ reliability and timeliness
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Attaching to Philippine Standards Issued by the AASC Engagement Standards | Application | 1. Philippine Standards on Auditing (PSAs) | * Audit of historical financial statements | 2. Philippine Standards on Review Engagements (PSREs) | * Review of historical financial information | 3.Philippine Standards on Assurance Engagements (PSAEs) | * Assurance engagements dealing with subject matters other than historical financial information | 4. Philippine Standards on Related Services (PSRSs)
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from the wording of the standard unqualified report and the reasons and implications of such deviations. Having standard wording improves communications for the benefit of users of the auditor’s report. When there are departures from the standard wording‚ users are more likely to recognize and consider situations requiring a modification or qualification to the auditor’s report or opinion. 3-2 The unqualified audit report consists of: 1. Report title Auditing standards require that the report
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Does Auditing Matter? Janice Rhodora P. Carpentero La Salle University and Eljoy Delos Santos La Salle University May 22‚ 2013 Does Auditing Matter? SUMMARY: The scrutiny auditing has received post-Enron provides compelling evidence that auditing does matter‚ to answer the rhetorical question posed by the paper’s title. What is unclear‚ however‚ is whether auditing was sufficiently “broken” in the first place to warrant the radical reforms and changes effected
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Auditing is a systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between those assertions and established criteria and communicating the results to interested users (Boynton & Johnson‚ 2006). In auditing there are many attributes that describes the auditor’s work. Elements of the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards are followed by auditors. The Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
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Week 12 - Part A: Answer the below questions from chapter 15: 1. Describe the differences between statistical and non-statistical sampling in terms of (1) the sample selection methods used‚ and (2) quantification of sampling risk. Ans: Nonstatistical sampling differs from statistical sampling in that non-probabilistic sampling can be used for the former but not the latter. In addition‚ sampling risk can be quantified when using statistical sampling but not when using nonstatistical sampling
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