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    Motors Credit Company (GMCC). Mead pays no funds to Generous Motors or GMCC until it sells the automobile. Mead must then repay the balance of the loan plus interest to GMCC. How should Mead report the acquisition and repayment transactions in its Statement of Cash Flows? Sample Case 1 Solution: Problem Identification: How should a company report‚ if at all‚ cash and non-cash transactions owed to an entity’s financial subsidiary? Keywords: Cash flows; financ* subsidiaries; operating income. Conclusion:

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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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    Role of Internal Auditor

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    leadership series Risk and Advisory Services Internal audit’s role in modern corporate governance Recent events have highlighted the critical role of boards of directors in promoting good corporate governance. In particular‚ boards are being charged with ultimate responsibility for the effectiveness of their organisations’ internal control systems. An effective internal audit function plays a key role in assisting the board to discharge its governance responsibilities. Yet how does the board

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    ACCA Paper F 8 AUDIT AND ASSURANCE SERVICES (INTERNATIONAL STREAM) Lecture 2 Audit Planning and Risk Assessment DATE: December 2012 TUTOR: Feroza Cooper ISA 300 AUDIT PLANNING Auditors should plan the audit so that the engagement is conducted in an effective manner. The objectives of planning include:- • Directing appropriate attention to the different areas of the audit such as assessing materiality‚ so that when

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    Table of contents 1. Introduction..................................................................................................................2 2. The role of internal and external auditors in corporate governance..............................2 3. Difficulties faced by auditors in contribution to corporate governance……………....4 4. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………….6 5. References…………………………………………………………………………….7 1. Introduction Corporate governance involves measuring

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    Jeff Sacks-Wilner Term Paper What Management and Auditors can do to Help Prevent Fraud‚ Errors and Illegal Acts Fraudulent‚ erroneous‚ and illegal acts committed by a public company‚ usually at a managerial or executive level‚ have been a very serious problem for many years and have prompted development of strict and updated regulations‚ such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ in an attempt to prevent these occurrences. Unfortunately‚ these new or updated regulations are not enough to prevent these

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    Tort Liability and Contract Liability A tort is a legal term for "a wrong." The "tort law" is composed of state statutes and court decisions that gives one the right to sue someone who causes harm to them‚ whether it’s a drunk driver‚ a corporation that manufactures a defective product‚ a credit card company that overcharges you‚ or a government bureaucrat that breaks the law or a school official such as a teacher or principal. The law of the state in which the school is located determines a school’s

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    home or on the arm of a wealthy man would begin to change. “The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction. . . .of being loved by someone who could understand him.” (Wollstonecraft) When a girl and a boy are treated as equal in a public setting‚ the view of how women should act in a societal situation will evolve from generation to

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    Auditors Role in Enron

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    scandals on the lines of Enron and Worldcom. 1.0 ABSTRACT 2.0 ENRON-CORPORATE FIASCOS 3.0 HOW DID THE AUDITORS FAIL TO CATCH PROBLEMS AT ENRON? 4.0 HOW TO PREVENT RECURRENCE OF ENRON? 5.0 NEW RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUDITORS ACCORDING TO SARBANES-OXLEY ACT 2002 6.0 CONCLUSION 7.0 REFERENCES 1.0 ABSTRACT The responsibility of an auditor is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on his audit which means verification or check in accordance with International Standards on Auditing

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    The Impossibility of Auditor Independence Intentional collusion of auditors and their clients is is not the major cause of Audit integrity. Most of the times‚ auditors find it difficult to become objective. In 1992‚ Phar-Mor‚ Inc. drugstore in the United States seeking a court protection from corruption failed a court case. The previous auditors‚ Coopers & Lybrand‚ Phar-Mor’s failed to state inventory inflation and manipulation of finanicial that lead to overstating of $985 million earnings

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