Individual Coursework Essay Topic: Why is it important for external auditors to be independent? Relate your answer to the primary role of external auditors. Give examples of specific ways the lack of auditor independence may impact adversely on an audit. In 2001‚ there was an event that had shaken the whole business world. The crash of Enron in US‚ followed by worldwide collapse of its auditor‚ Arthur Andersen. It was a greatest corporate failure uncovered in
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Yongho Cho 8/26/2012 Weekly Memo #1: Should external/internal auditors be responsible for detecting client fraud? In 2001 Enron‚ the seventh largest energy company in 2001‚ filed for bankruptcy. The event named “Enron Scandal” is considered to be the most shocking incident in American economic history. Bring the country to the edge of disaster‚ the scandal was basically caused by securities fraud which Enron was charge with. The irrationality of accounting and auditing system encouraged U
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‘The main responsibility of business is to increase the profit for its shareholders – discuss ’. First I am going to explain the role of shareholders and how they affect the decision making of businesses. I will then discuss other stakeholders and the responsibilities that the business ‘owes’ to them. I also plan to look at examples of real life businesses that have made decisions based on the different stakeholder’s needs and wants and compare this in terms of ethical theories. Shareholders are just
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INTRODUCTION A Shareholders’ Agreement is an agreement amongst the shareholders of a company. When a company is created‚ its founding shareholders determine how a company will be owned and managed. The Shareholders’ Agreement establishes rules to govern the relationship between two or more owners of a company. Without a shareholders’ agreement in place‚ the rules that apply are in the applicable corporate statute. The shareholders’ agreement creates an overlay that addresses issues created or left
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WHY IS AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE SO IMPORTANT? Auditing is the efficient critical examination done by one person or group of people’s independent from the system audited. To do an audit‚ confirmed information must be present and some standards by which the auditor can evaluate the information. Another is gathering and evaluating any information to determine whether the information being audited is identified in accordance with establish criteria to satisfy the purpose of the audit and also auditors must
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Rights of Shareholders. Introduction: A shareholder is an individual or company that legally owns one or more shares of stock in that company. Shareholders are the owners of companies. A small business may have just one shareholder‚ the founder‚ while a public company may have thousands of individual and institutional shareholders‚ such as mutual fund companies‚ pension funds and hedge funds. Shareholders play an important role in the financing‚ operations‚ governance and
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Introduction The topic of the report is an exploration of a career option and a Tax Auditor at Canada Revenue Agency. The purposes of this report are to not only prepare myself for the position by examining and learning but also introduce a different field of work to colleagues All residents in Canada must pay a tax and Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)‚ formally known as Revenue Canada‚ is a federal agency that has as its main function the administration of Canadian tax laws for most of the provinces
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STAKEHOLDER vs. SHAREHOLDER The central objective of the firm and its managers is making optimal tradeoffs and that of value maximization‚ i.e. maximizing total market value of the firm. There are two theories proposed to achieve the firm’s objective which are the ‘Stakeholder Theory’ and ‘Shareholder Theory’. “Stakeholder Theory” assumes that values are necessarily and explicitly a part of doing business and the manager needs to take into account the interest of all the stakeholders while taking
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entries must be supported by a document. • A technique to verify the authenticity and authority of transactions recorded in the books on the basis of which the auditor submits a report‚ indicating that accounts are correct‚ free from errors or fraud and complete. • It is not only examining the documentary evidence but sometimes auditor has to go behind recorded evidence to eliminate any possibility of fraud. DEFINITION • “Vouching is the examination of the evidence offered in substantiation
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Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Audit 1.2 nature of auditor independence 1.3 principle of auditor independence 2.0 The concept of auditor rotation 3.0 The history and current debates concerning auditor rotation 4.0 Different countries regimen should be considered 5.0 Conclusion 6.0 List of references 7.0 Appendices 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Audit Auditing is the analysis of the financial accounts or records‚ by a qualified accountant‚ and
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