1 Auditing issues in Enron case Independent Needed for the Houston office of Andersen‚ an audit partner that understands the role of being a "public watchdog" with "ultimate allegiance to the creditors and shareholders" . Arthur Anderson abandoned its roles as independent auditor by turning a blind eye to improper accounting‚ including the failure to consolidate‚ failure of Enron to make $51million in proposed adjustments in 1997‚ and failure to adequately disclose the nature of transactions with
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GREAT ZIMBABWE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE COURSE CODE: AC211 COURSE TITLE: AUDITING THEORY AND PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT FIRST SEMESTER 2014 QUESTION 1 Brian Ltd was formed on November 2013 in order to manufacture microchips. The directors are unsure of their responsibilities and the nature of their relationship with the external auditors. The audit partner has ask you to visit the client and explain to the directors the more fundamental aspects
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Purpose: 1. Main evidence of procedures‚ work performed on audit 2. Prepare sufficient & appropriate audit documentation on timely basis 3. enhance audit quality 4. facilitate effective review 5. evaluate audit evidence obtained & conclusions reached before finalizing auditor’s report 6. assisting audit team plan & perform for audit 7. assist audit team members’ supervise & direct audit work‚ discharge responsibilities (Quality Control for an Audit)
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McGraw-Hill/Irwin Retailing Management‚ McGraw-Hill/Irwin Retailing Management‚ Computer Source: 44 outlets 1-3 1-4 Chapter 1 Introduction to the World of Retailing McGraw-Hill/Irwin Retailing Management‚ 1-6 The World of Retailing Introduction to Retailing Types of Retailers Multi-Channel Retailing Customer Buying Behavior 1-7 Questions ■ ■ ■ ■ What is retailing? What do retailers do? Why is retailing important in our society? What career
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Qiong Wu Instructor James Dutra ACC 412 March 26‚ 2014 Case 3.1 Dodgers Trolley Summary The Dodgers Trolley case is a simple problem related the internal control in auditing. Dodgers Trolley was original funded in New York‚ but Yankees performed much better. After nearly seven decades of mostly frustration on and off the baseball field‚ the Dodgers shocked the sports world by moving to Los Angeles in 1958‚ because Walter O’Malley saw the opportunity to introduce baseball to the increasing
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a) The Report’s main points The report identifies the complexities that exist within the economic paradigms with relations to uncertainties and economic instability that have characterized the markets and businesses at large. The report analyzes the imperatives of organizations identifying efficient approaches to governance‚ risk and compliance (GRC). This is a sensitization on the part of various business organizations and entities about business environment that involves a number of risks and
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Content Executive summary 1. 0 Business operation of REX 1.1 Nature of revenue sources 1.2Conduct of operation 1.3 Products and services 1.4 Market conditions and competition 1.5 Regulatory environment 2.0 PEST analysis 2.1 Political 2.2 Economics 2.3 Social 2.4 Technical 3.0 Audit risks 3.1 Measurement risk of aircraft 3.2 Revenue manipulate risk 3.3 Derivative financial instruments risk 3.4 Employee benefit risk 4.0 Internal control Reference Executive summary
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Case 4: Aaron Jones‚ CPA‚ is auditing the current year’s financial statements of Low Company‚ a publicly traded company. Aaron notices some major fluctuations in Low’s fourth quarter of the previous year’s financial statement balances. He is aware that security holders of publicly traded company stock that does not separately report fourth quarter results often “impute” such results by subtracting data based on third quarter interim balances from the year-end balances. Thus‚ companies should report
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PERIODS 4 - 6 PERIOD 4: During period 4 it was apparent that we maintained our primary focus on the grocery stores since the majority of our sales force was there. Realizing that it was one of our biggest marketers‚ we continued to increase in this area (increasing by 8% during this period). We realized at this point that when looking at sales force numbers‚ we were one of the lowest ones and we thought that if we could bump our total sale force from 183 to 190‚ and then for our next decision
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MG 640 Managerial Economics Homework Assignment Week 8 Chapter 5: Production Process and Costs For this week read Chapter 5‚ pages 178-198 Answer the following questions: Question 4. On page 201 Bottom of Form An economist estimated that he cost function of single-prodcut firm is C(Q) = 100 + 20Q + 15Q2 + 10Q3 Based on this information‚ determine: a. The fixed cost of producing 10 units of output b. The variable cost of producing 10 units of output c. The total cost of producing 10 units of
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