Appointment‚ Duties‚ Rights and Liabilities of Auditor Appointment: First Auditors a) The first auditors of a company shall be appointed by the directors within 60 days of incorporation of the company [252(3)] b) The first auditors will hold office till the first annual general meeting [252(3)]. c) If the directors fail to appoint the first auditors‚ the members shall appoint the first auditors‚ provided further that the auditors such appointed shall not be removed during the tenure expect
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Summary of The Auditor The Auditor by James K. Loebbecke tells a story about the life and career of an auditor named Jack Butler. The book shows Jack’s career from his education all the way to his promotion to partner. Loebbecke designed this story about Jack as a teaching tool to give students an understanding about the life of an auditor. The story begins with Jack’s promotion to partner and how it was bittersweet for him. Jack is excited for the promotion‚ but is also nervous about the
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Auditor Responsibility The expectation is that an auditor should be held responsible for the quality of his/her work. This is because a major error or omission by the auditor can result in a false opinion. Auditors have a moral‚ professional and legal responsibility. In the Companies Act 2006‚ Section 507 prevents auditors knowingly or recklessly causing an audit report to include any matter that is “misleading‚ false or deceptive in a material way”. To be proved in cases of civil liability
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decade owing to partly serious corporate governance deficiencies‚ among other challenges. As a result‚ the research serves to highlight‚ hint and encourage all the relevant stakeholders to establish proper corporate governance structures in which the auditor is tasked to review and evaluate the effectiveness and efficient of the structures. Corporate governance measures and other incentives are unveiled by the top-level management in various companies to create a platform for companies to transform
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Department of Corrections Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Recommendation 4 Supporting Reasons for Recommendation 5 Increase Employee Productivity 5 Improve Job Satisfaction 7 Reduce Employee Turnover 8 Counterargument and Rebuttal 9 Reservations against Recommendation 9 Rebuttal of Reservations 9 Conclusion 10 Reference List 11 Executive Summary This report will discuss how low
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Recommendations Based on (b)‚ the control environment sets the tone of an organization‚ influencing the control consciousness of its people. It is the foundation for all the other components of internal control‚ providing discipline and structure for the whole organization. It is important to an entity in the overall attitude and actions of managements. To overcome the weaknesses for the internal control system over sales‚ the company should have separation of the duties. The company should assign
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Safeguard of auditor independence (i)Established An Audit Committee We support the given measure as Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ Section 204 requires auditors reports to audit committee (www.sarbanes-oxley.com).First‚ such committee is independent non-executive directors provide auditors an independent point of reference than executive directors of the company. Second‚ it enhancing the independence of auditors by provides a direct channel of communication between top management and the auditors. As such
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Introduction Independence is a fundamental to the reliability of auditors’ reports. It is an attitude of mind characterized by integrity and an objective approach to professional works. A professional auditor should work both independent and seen to be so. Nowadays‚ but‚ the trend of providing non-audit services to audit clients seem to be sweeping accounting firms all over the world; impacts of independence impairment caused by this trend should not be ignored. The Meaning of Independence The
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Promoting Good Governance in Public Institutions of Ghana: The Role of the Internal Auditor Introduction All over the world there is a realization that the Internal Audit activity has the potential to provide hitherto unparalleled services to management in the conduct of their duties. This potential has been turned into a challenge and embodied in the new definition of Internal Auditing from the Institute of Internal Auditors (the IIA). Background of the Study The Government of the Republic of Ghana by the Internal Audit Agency Act‚ 2003 (Act
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Quistions on Academic Research Case The need for an Internal Auditor Report to External Stakeholders to Improve Governance Transparency Naimah AlBaharnah Prof. Liotta‚ Joseph P AC629‚ Contemporary Issues In Auditing June 19‚ 2014 What is the issue being addressed in the paper? Sarbanes Oxley mandates requires all public companies to establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting. In addition they must document‚ test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their
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