Internal Controls XACC/280 April 7‚2013 Axia Internal Controls Internal controls are put into place to safeguard a company’s assets and to promote the accuracy of their accounting records. There are two primary goals of internal controls. The first goal of internal controls is to safeguard it’s assets from employee theft‚ robbery‚ or unauthorized use. When there is a large some of money there is temptation from employee’s to take some of it. Many employees believe they are underpaid
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: Control Systems Kaplan University Abstract This paper will first explain exactly what a control system is and the purpose it serves. Next‚ this paper will turn its focus towards an incident of misreporting hours that happened in Dalman and Lei’s growing business‚ Sandwich Blitz Inc‚ and how the situation should be handled. The four step control process will be implemented and used accordingly to solve this problem within the company. Sandwich Blitz Inc.: Control Systems Control is
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Chapter 5: Internal Control over Financial Reporting 1. Internal control is a process designed to guarantee the achievement of the objectives of reliable financial reporting‚ compliance with laws and regulations and ineffective and inefficient operations. FALSE 2. Auditing standards require that the auditor exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the planning and performance of the audit. TRUE 3. If internal controls are not enforced they are useless
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Elizabeth Knox March 10‚ 2014 How can Lei apply the four step control process outlined in the text to address the problem of misreporting hours? Solution: A Control system has four control steps and they are; Setting performance standards‚ Measuring performance‚ Comparing performance against the standards and determining deviations‚ Taking action to correct problems and reinforce successes. Lei can apply all the four control process in the following ways: Setting performance standards:
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was created by sponsors U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes(D-MD) and U.S. Representative Michael G. Oxley (R-OH) in response to very public corporate fraud and accounting scandals. In a seemingly short period of time‚ Enron‚ Tyco International‚ Adelphia‚ Peregrine Systems and WorldCom all collapsed. The majority of these scandals resulted from the inaccurate reporting of financial transactions. The financial statements of these organizations were so gravely misrepresented and
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MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL 1) Causes of Management -Lack of Direction -Motivational Problems -Personal Limitation 2) Avoidance -Activity elimination : Eliminate what is not working properly -Automation -Centralization -Risk Sharing Chapter 2 SECTION II 3) Result Control : Preventive type Control Helps Mgr to address strategy‚ org‚ employees are performing - Steps : 1. Define Performance dimension 2. Measure Performance 3. Setting Target 4. Provide Reward Requirement for Effective Result control : - Knowledge
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limitations of the internal control system and also give the reader three examples of such limitations. Internal control procedures will be thoroughly discussed and how the procedures are actually executed. Signs and symptoms of an underdeveloped internal control system and the impact of a missing journal entry on a financial statement will be further reviewed. With everything‚ there can be bad or there can be good. In accounting‚ however‚ there has to be a consistent control system in order
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Internal Controls XACC/280 Whenever having a company‚ he or she must have the right aspects so that business can run as smoothly as possible. The existence where not having the company together as supposed to‚ then there are problems that can follow. Internal control is the safeguard of the assets and the accuracy along with able to rely on he or she’s accounting records and the guide to success is making sure that he or she follows the control principles. The two sentences before this is the
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Justification for an Internal Control System ACC/544 April 22‚ 2013 Christine Errico Justification for an Internal Control System Over the past years many organizations have fallen because of inadequate financial reporting and ineffective controls. To overcome this dilemma‚ the creation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 requires corporations to take full control over its financial reporting and accounting by placing internal controls within its organization. Internal controls not only establish
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Sarbanes – Oxley: Where Information Technology‚ Finance‚ and Ethics Meet The Sarbanes – Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 was enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices by organizations. One primary component of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the dentition of which records are to be stored and for how long. For this reason‚ the legislation not only affects financial departments‚ but
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