Case Study 2 – Internal Control TO: LJB Company President FROM: Andrea Johnson DATE: February 8‚ 2013 SUBJECT: Internal Control It is with great pleasure that we can provide you information and advisement on internal controls that will assist LJB Company with going public. We understand that you have communicated your concerns and expect that this report will assist you with deriving conclusions. This report will: 1. Inform you of any new internal control requirements in reference to
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UNDERSTANDING INTERNAL CONTROLS A Reference Guide for Managing University Business Practices Understanding Internal Controls Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................................1 OBJECTIVES ......................................................................................................................................................................1
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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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INTRODUCTION Internal auditing is a management-oriented discipline that has evolved rapidly since World War II. Once a function primarily concerned with financial and accounting matters‚ internal auditing now addresses the entire range of operating activities and performs a correspondingly wide variety of assurance and consulting services. By definition‚ according to Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)‚ internal auditing is an independent‚ objective assurance and consulting activity designed to
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INTERNAL AUDIT TRAINING MODULE BASED ON THE INTERNAL AUDIT PROCEDURE MANUAL Ministry of Finance & Economic Development November 2005 TABLE OF CONTENT MODULE I I. INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL BACKGROUND SESSION I INTRODUCTION BREAKING THE ICE LEARNING CONTRACT BASES AND AUTHORITY THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF AUDITING 1 1 1 2 3 SESSION II HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL AUDITING INTERNAL AUDITING IN ETHIOPIA THE SCOPE AND PRACTICE OF INTERNAL AUDITING IN ETHIOPIA NEED TO ADOPT THE PROFESSIONAL
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Training Material on Internal Auditing Internal Auditing Handbook 1 Session 1 – External Audit........................................................................5 1.1 Definition and Objective.....................................................................5 1.2 Responsibilities of External Audit ......................................................5 1.3 Scope of the Audit .............................................................................6 1.4 Auditor’s Report Basic
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During an operational engagement‚ an internal auditor observes a large number of above-ground storage containers and a large amount of black emissions from a smokestack. The organization has an environmental safety department. The engagement is not designed to consider environmental concerns. The best course of action is to A. Make a note to consider environmental risk concerns when developing the engagement plan for the next year‚ but do not expand the scope of the existing engagement because
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Question 1 a) Select two companies where inadequate internal control have resulted in disastrous effects on the organisation or exposed it to heavy losses. Research the facts of the failure and report on the facts and the losses suffered. In your report‚ include suggestions for changes to operations (internal controls) that could have prevented the final outcome. Where could you find a list of these internal controls and how are they documented? Examples of companies include: Coles Myer
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Internal Controls Internal controls are all the procedures and measures companies put in place in order to achieve two specific goals related to accounting (Kieso‚ Kimmel‚ & Weygandt‚ 2011). The first goal is the protection against loss of assets from various sources such as theft or accounting error (Kieso‚ Kimmel‚ & Weygandt‚ 2011). Companies‚ clients and shareholders must have assurance that there is suitable control over all business assets like inventory and bank accounts all the
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| | |application of the processes throughout the organization: |The criteria for control is based upon our mission statement and | | |Determining the sequence and interaction of the processes? |commitment to quality and the needs of our customers and other | | |Determining the criteria and methods for operation and control |stakeholders. | | |of the processes
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