Question 1 Incentives: Financial pressures from changes in the market and industry intense competition (national‚ regional‚ local) under cut prices from municipalities that could offer lower prices by using tax revenue. Pressure to meet earnings expectations Stock ownership benefits Retirement benefits Performance based bonuses Maintain growing stock price Maintain industry leadership Maintain reputation Opportunities: Able to use a lot of estimates in depreciation of PPE (over 1/2 of assets)
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Chapter 1 An overview of auditing Multiple Choice 1. The three major professional accounting bodies in Australia are: a. ICAA‚ CPA and ASIC. b. CPA Australia‚ NIA and AARF. c. ATO‚ AUASB and ASIC. d. ICAA‚ CPA Australia and NIA. The correct option is d. Feedback: Section 1.3 The auditing environment 2. Which body has a mission ‘to develop‚ in the public interest‚ high-quality auditing and assurance standards and related guidance to enhance the relevance‚ reliability and timeliness
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Does Auditing Matter? Janice Rhodora P. Carpentero La Salle University and Eljoy Delos Santos La Salle University May 22‚ 2013 Does Auditing Matter? SUMMARY: The scrutiny auditing has received post-Enron provides compelling evidence that auditing does matter‚ to answer the rhetorical question posed by the paper’s title. What is unclear‚ however‚ is whether auditing was sufficiently “broken” in the first place to warrant the radical reforms and changes effected
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the Fair Trading Act 1986 to a given fact situation. 1a) The fair trading act in 1986 defend consumers by prohibiting dishonest or deceptive conduct in trade. It requires that all trading activities are based on right and true information. In this case‚ under the defences available in the act‚ he was not responsible but he has committed offence under the agreement. He needs to make sure his staff employees know enough about a product to advertise in the newspaper and they are accurately representing
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firm is with greater losses? Which firm is with a deeper pocket? By comparing the profit after taxes of Exhibit 6 and 7‚ we can see BSB’s loss is far greater than that of SKY’s. In 1990‚ BSB lost more money than SKY due to heavier cost structure and this loss continues for the next 6 years. 2-3. Would there still be a price war? What are the variables that we should check first. In this case we believe there would be a price war. BSB was known to have much deeper pockets than Sky‚ and was therefore
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receive a cash refund. If you cannot reliably estimate the amount of any future cash refunds‚ then you must defer revenue recognition. If a price is conditional on a future event‚ then it is not fixed or determinable‚ so revenue recognition cannot occur; 4) collectability is reasonably assured: If you cannot reasonably estimate an allowance for doubtful account‚ then you cannot recognize revenue until you can make such an estimation. Revenue Recognition Scenarios: 1. Overall‚ AOL is selling two things
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I THE RED FLAGS and the Allegations by the SEC -1996‚ Ruttenberge family sold a large chunk of stocks for $49.6m on the second public offering while the financial statements continuously showed positive trends - The financial statements analysis - Cash flows were negative while profit was reported. Early 1999‚ liqutity problem arised‚ sold $200M of high-yield or Junk bonds in mid 1999. - Justice Department: Adam Gilburne: guilty to conspriracy to commit wire and securities fraud to inflate
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Production‚ Accounting and HR. They got a decision to increase production in 14% by last year onwards and an incentive program also implemented. When the carder produces more than the original target‚ company granted 10%-15% additional incentive. After 6 months company had evaluate their pros and cons and results was as follows‚ Production increased 1st month - 20% 2nd month -30% 3rd month -32% 4th month -20% 5th month -20% 6th month -20% Lower Quality and Rejection Rate – 10%-15% After implementing
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by the AASC Engagement Standards | Application | 1. Philippine Standards on Auditing (PSAs) | * Audit of historical financial statements | 2. Philippine Standards on Review Engagements (PSREs) | * Review of historical financial information | 3.Philippine Standards on Assurance Engagements (PSAEs) | * Assurance engagements dealing with subject matters other than historical financial information | 4. Philippine Standards on Related Services (PSRSs) | * Compilation engagements
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Case #4 * From my point of view‚ I think that the example of Maktoob can be found again in the Arab world especially that we have the resources along with hard working and innovative developers. Investment from the western region also is important for the developers to reach new limits. Maktoob was very successful innovative story of excellence that aimed to bring Arabic used in the internet to new ages and make it available for more users. At that time‚ the number of the Arabic users was sharply
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