Identify the mission‚ objectives and responsibilities of an organisation within its environment The mission‚ values and key objectives of an organisation and assess the influence of stakeholders Mission‚ values and key objectives are of high significance to any organisation. An organisation will state a mission that will describe the function or role it aims to provide in the form of products or services. Although the focus is long term it puts perspective on the short term so that the long-term
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Burlington Bees[1] Using Analytical Procedures as Substantive Tests OBJECTIVES Use analytical procedures to develop expectations for revenue accounts Recognize factors that lead to precise expectations of account balances Appreciate the degree of professional judgment involved in evaluating differences between expected and reported account balances Understand the audit planning implications of using analytical procedures as substantive tests of account balances Burlington Bees‚ an
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ultimately affected by the integrity of the financial reporting process. Auditors need to remember that they are serving the public interest and not the interests of client management. 1-2. The audit opinion formulation process is a systematic approach by which the auditor evaluates the risk of being associated with a client‚ through the process of gathering and evaluating audit evidence‚ to determining the type of audit opinion that should be rendered. The stages and outcome of each stage are
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Standards Introduction Self-regulated: the standards governing audits were established by members of the profession themselves Sarbanes-Oxley Acct of 2002 Created: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to provide external and independent oversight over the audits of public entities Responsible for registering public accounting firms‚ establishing standards for audit engagements‚ and inspecting the quality of audits conducted by public accounting firms ****Generally Accepted Auditing
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[pic] [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 8 NO 1‚ JUNE‚ 2010 THE ROLE OF AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION‚ PREVENTION AND REPORTING IN NIGERIA Akinyomi Oladele John Department of Financial Studies‚ Redeemer’s University‚ Mowe E-mail: delejohn21@yahoo.com Abstract This study investigates the role of auditors in the detection‚ prevention and reporting of fraud. Data were obtained from 184 respondents in Nigeria. The findings revealed that the respondents
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’Is it possible for auditors to achieve absolute independence and what regulations should be imposed to attain or maintain independence?’ Auditor independence requires auditors to take an unbiased viewpoint in the overall performance of the audit report‚ and therefore maintain the fundamental principles of integrity and objectivity. Auditor independence is possible‚ however it is quite hard to achieve as it requires auditors to meet all the guidelines set out by AASB and statutory requirements
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Audit Evidence This chapter deals with the types of evidence decisions auditors make‚ the evidence available to auditors‚ and the use of that evidence in performing audits. NATURE OF EVIDENCE • Evidence is any information used by the auditor to determine whether the information being audited is stated in accordance with the established criteria. • Evidence includes information that is highly persuasive‚ such as the auditor ’s count of marketable securities‚ and less persuasive information
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a. There are three ways of managing reported earnings and the reasons behind each way may be different. (1) Report lower earnings. Managers intend to report lower earnings for mainly three reasons. Firstly‚ they want to hide profit for future use. In some years‚ the company presents a strong performance and has earned huge profit; however the manager may worry that the company’s future performance would not be as strong as current year‚ which gives them the incentive to save the profit by reporting
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responsibilities to its clients. While working for a company to audit their financial information‚ they are also at the same time working for the public and regulators who rely on externals auditors to prove credibility to the financial information that companies release (Cooper‚ Coram‚ Richardson‚ & Leung‚ 2009). To assist in quality assurance‚ the profession‚ and government have developed multilevel framework which is designed to regulate the audit profession. This framework includes: * Ethical standards:
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CONTROLS IN AN EDP ENVIRONMENT The second standard of field work requires that we obtain a sufficient understanding of the client’s internal controls (I/C) to plan the audit and assess control risk. We hope that our assessment of control risk shows it to be low so that we can reduce substantive testing‚ thereby reducing audit costs. When EDP is used in significant accounting applications‚ then you must consider the effects the computer has when evaluating the internal controls. The auditor’s
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