Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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statistical and non-statistical sampling in terms of (1) the sample selection methods used‚ and (2) quantification of sampling risk. Ans: Nonstatistical sampling differs from statistical sampling in that non-probabilistic sampling can be used for the former but not the latter. In addition‚ sampling risk can be quantified when using statistical sampling but not when using nonstatistical sampling. 2. Directed sample selection is the selection of each item in the sample based on some judgment criteria
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The Delta-Northwest Merger Some airlines have struggled to stay in business for years. Due to the tough economic times‚ it has affected companies such as Delta and Northwest and the whole airline industry. The competition is intense and some of the global airlines are on the verge of going out of business. Recently‚ Delta and the Northwest Airlines have stated that they are merging together to create America’s premier global airline. Rising fuel prices is one of the primary reasons the airline
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machines Present Value = C * i $8 million = C .15 $8 = C *annuity factor (15%‚ 7 years) $8 = C *4.160 C = $8 / 4.160 =1.923 million Skilboro machines For the Skilboro machine reduction in the material
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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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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) Accounting firm (Arthur Andersen) thought of Waste Management as a crown jewel and would be lenient to keep from losing their account‚ working together since before 1971. Lot of former Andersen employees were working at Waste Management CFO
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Title of the Report: Case Analysis of ‘The Cooperative Bank’ The Purpose: The purpose of the report is to submit the analysis of The Cooperative Bank based on the Activity Based Costing methodology To whom it is submitted (Name of the instructor): Prof. Sandhya Bhatia‚ Professor‚ Managerial Accounting‚ Indian Institute of Management‚ Udaipur Name of the Author: Abhishek Sengupta Anubhav Nigam Ravindran Damodaran Saurabh Srivastava Date of Submission: 24 February 2013
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another good point. But it seems not a systematized situation. Perhaps several things could be improved. One is that Bob should add an attorney to the board to deal with legal issues to avoid potential risks if there was no law department (From the case‚ we don’t know whether there was or not).Second thing is that there wasn’t criterion or rules to select or change members of board. Also‚ there weren’t specific document of rules‚ terms or duties. It may be work in short –term. However‚ in long-term
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confindence of the intended users other than the responsible party about the outcome of the evaluation or measurement of a subject matter against criteria FF. are the broad categories of services under the umbrella of assurance services: 1. Risk assessment 2. Information system reliability 3. Adequacy of security over Electronic commerce transactions‚ electronic documents‚ and support systems 4. Effectiveness of Health care performance measurement systems 5. Reliability and relevance of Business performance
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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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