Auditing Final Project Mariya Zdravkova MIAF 2011‚ IE Table of Content: 1. Company Introduction……………………………………………………..…………………………………….3 2. Collapse……………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………..3 3. The Report of Anton R. Valukas…………………………………………..……….…………………………3 4. The accounting fraud (Repo 105)…………………………………………………...……………………….3 5. The Auditor……………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..4 6. Ernst and Young role in Lehman Brothers´ case……………………………………………………….4 7. The “Netting
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ZZZZ Best Company Case Ernst and Whitney never issued an audit opinion on financial statements of ZZZZ Best but did issue a review report on the company’s quarterly statements for the three months ended July 31‚ 1986. How does a review differ from an audit‚ particularly in terms of the level of assurance implied by the auditor’s report? While both a review and an audit are attestation services provided by CPAs. A review and an audit differ in that a review does not offer the level of assurance
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1.9: ZZZZ Best Company‚ Inc. 1. A review differs from an audit because a review does not allow the auditor to test or observe internal controls and assess control risk. According to AS 5‚ effective internal control over financial reporting provides reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial statements. As a result‚ an auditor cannot provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of the financial statements by just completing a review; they must complete a full audit. An
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------------------------------------------------- ZZZ Best Company‚ Inc. ------------------------------------------------- Case Study 2 ------------------------------------------------- Due Date: March 30‚2010 ZZZ Best‚ Case 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 the three months ended July 31‚ 1986. How does a review differ from an audit‚ particularly in terms of the level of assurance
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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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ZZZZ Best Company Fraud Case Study 1) At an early age‚ Barry Minkow was introduced to the carpet cleaning industry by his mother who worked part time as a telephone solicitor for a small carpet cleaning company. This insight of the industry allowed Minkow to understand that the carpet cleaning industry was one which had very few barriers to entry‚ no licensing requirements‚ and required only a small amount of capital to enter. Also‚ because of these few barriers to entry‚ the industry has historically
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ACG 4632 ZZZZ Best Case Questions (40 points) 1. Identify the primary audit objectives that auditors hope to accomplish by: * Confirming a client’s year-end accounts receivable‚ and (Balance related existence) * Performing year-end sales cutoff tests. (transaction-related objective timing) (5 points) 2. 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 the three
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Ernst Von Bergmann German Surgeon known for Sterilization of Surgical Instruments Monday‚ May 24‚ 2010 Intrudoction to the Surgical Environment Instructor: Javier Espinales Paper Written by: Walter Pacheco My Paper is about a Baltic- German surgeon named‚ Ernst Von Bergmann. Dr. Bergmann was Born on December 1836 Riga‚ Russian Baltic Provinces. He is known as the first surgeon to use heat to sterilize surgical instruments. Dr. Bergmann came from a religious family. His father was a Lutheran
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OTPR Project Report on Ernst & Young Global Limited Group G1 Danish Warsi (13217) Pujitha Muramalla (13230) Sachin Parnerkar (13242) Sahil Bhadviya (13241) Saurabh Kumar (13246) Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 About Ernst & Young Ernst & Young (trading as EY*) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. It was the third largest professional services firm in
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scenarios. First‚ Gray did not perform an analysis of the industry. Paragraph five of AS No.9 states that “planning the audit includes establishing the overall audit strategy for the engagement and developing an audit plan‚ which includes‚ in particular‚ planned risk assessment procedures and planned responses to the risks of material misstatement.” Planned risk assessment procedures include performing analytical procedures to determine whether the company’s key financial ratios were consistent
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