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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Inventory Internal Controls ________________________________________ A company’s investment in inventory is usually a large one‚ and it may be comprised of a large number of merchandise items that can be readily stolen and resold. If the inventory contains mostly raw materials‚ then keeping track of it is essential for ensuring that the production processes using it will not run short of materials. This means that you need to implement an array of controls‚ either to prevent theft or to ensure
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Characteristics of an Effective System of Internal Control 1.) In accounting systems‚ certain controls are needed to ensure that employees are doing their jobs properly and ensure that the system runs properly. These checks are in the best interest of the organization. These controls come in the form of internal controls for the system. The internal controls are the checks that are placed in the system by the company’s own management to prevent the intentional misrepresentation of financial data
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Running head: INTERNAL CONTROL Tarsha Jackson Internal Control Walden University ACCT # 6650 Forensic Advance Audit Topics February 10‚ 2013 Internal Control The detection of fraud is depending on what type of fraud and the internal controls that are in place. Rancher‚ Riley and Wells (2011) reported “Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No.99 “Consideration of Fraud in
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Internal control can be described as any action taken by an organization to help enhance the likelihood that the objectives of the organization will be achieved. The definition of internal control has evolved over recent years as different internal control models have been developed. This article will describe these models‚ present the definitions of internal control they provide‚ and indicate the components of internal control. Various parties responsible for and affected by internal control will
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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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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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Running head: INTERAL CONTROL AND RISK EVALUATION Internal Control and Risk Evaluation Patricia Coleman ACC/542 April 7‚ 2014 Maryln Fisher In today’s society‚ internal controls are applied to support an organization ’s managers to become more successfully to release the responsibilities by applying and understanding internal control concepts. Internal controls are most frequently saw as "a lot of red tape"; however‚ internal controls have different circumstances
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Internal Controls XACC/280 Whenever having a company‚ he or she must have the right aspects so that business can run as smoothly as possible. The existence where not having the company together as supposed to‚ then there are problems that can follow. Internal control is the safeguard of the assets and the accuracy along with able to rely on he or she’s accounting records and the guide to success is making sure that he or she follows the control principles. The two sentences before this is the
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Accounting & Finance Faculty FNS10 Financial Services FNSACC506A Implement and Manage Internal Controls Semester 1 2014 ASSESSMENT TITLE Assessment 1 – Assignment 1 ASSESSMENT CONDITIONS/INSTRUCTIONS Take home assignment – Questions and Research Aids to be supplied by college: None. Aids to be supplied by student: None Prescribed Text book(s) Standard Dictionaries Bilingual Dictionaries Technical Dictionaries Programmable Calculators Non-programmable Calculators
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