Global Perspectives on Accounting Education Volume 5‚ 2008‚ 1-16 ESTABLISHING AN INTERNAL AUDIT DEPARTMENT: THE CASE OF THE SCHWAN FOOD COMPANY Hugh Pforsich College of Business Administration California State University - Sacramento Sacramento‚ California USA Bonita K. Peterson Kramer College of Business Montana State University Bozeman‚ Montana USA G. Randolph Just* ABSTRACT An effective internal audit department adds value to its organization in numerous ways. It helps the organization to achieve
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a going concern audit issue. Participants in Experiment One involve 92 auditor from multiple offices of three Big 4 audit firm which is 48 seniors‚ 29 managers and 15 senior managers. The range of audit experience are 3 to 13 years with a mean experience of 5.4 years. Overall‚ 80 percent of participants reported being involved in audit engagements where substantial doubt existed about the client’s going concern aassumption. While two-thirds of participants shown at least one audit engagement where
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Current Ratio * A liquidity ratio that measures a company’s ability to pay short term obligations. Current Ratio 2011 Current Assets Current Liabilities 35‚343‚809 35‚774‚652 =0.99 The ratio of 0.99: 1 means that for every ringgit of current liabilities‚ Hwa Tai has RM0.99 of current assets. Current Ratio 2010 Current Assets Current Liabilities 36‚746‚539 37‚634‚489 =0.98 * The ratio of 0.98 : 1 means that for every ringgit of current
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Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Generally Accepted Auditing Standards‚ also known as GAAS‚ are the most acknowledged auditing standards known. GAAS relates to the conduct of individual audit engagements and are a set of standards in which quality of audits are performed and may be judged. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has a division called the Auditing Standards Board which publicizes the GAAS standards in the United States. There are
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They cannot produce the information for themselves because of these conditions. Company managers and accountants produce the information. 1.3 Information risk‚ in contrast to business risk‚ is the risk (probability) that the information (mainly financial) disseminated by a company will be materially false or misleading. This risk creates the demand for objective outsiders to provide assurance to decision makers. 1.4 Students can refer to the AAA and AICPA definitions in Chapter 1. Some instructors
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are two of the four key qualitative characteristics of financial accounting information. The others being understandability and comparability. Relevance requires that the financial accounting information should be such that the users need it and it is expected to affect their decisions. Reliability requires that the information should be accurate and true and fair. Relevance and reliability are both critical for the quality of the financial information‚ but both are related such that an emphasis
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the audit committees at their clients to ask them relevant and probing questions. Some of the relevant questions that audit committee members should ask the external auditor include all of the following except: A) How do you assess the competence of company personnel engaged in financial reporting and related processes? B) What are the most significant risks to financial reporting at this company? C) What level of assurance do your procedures provide with respect to the annual financial statements
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QUESTION 1 i. Current Ratio = Current Assets/Current Liability = $ 14‚651‚000/$ 19‚639‚000 = 0.750 ii. Quick Ratio = (Current Assets – Inventory) / Current Liability = ($ 14‚651‚000 – $ 6‚136‚000) / $ 19‚539‚000 = 0.436 iii. Total Assets Turnover = Sales/Total Assets = $ 167‚310‚000/$ 108‚615‚000 = 1.540 iv. Inventory Turnover = COGS/Inventory = $ 117‚910‚000/$ 6‚136‚000 = 19.216 v. Receivable Turnover = Sales/Account Receivables = $ 167‚310‚000/$ 5‚473
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A. Financial information is prepared for multiple users for different purposes and thus not all elements of the financial statements are equally relevant to all users. B. Materiality is a relative rather than an absolute concept. The materiality threshold that will influence users of the financial statements will vary depending on the context in which the entity operates. C. Auditors must design the audit to find the smallest misstatement that would influence users of the financial statements
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strike price is $51. The option expires on July 31‚ 2010. On March 31‚ 2010‚ the market value of Reese stock was $48 per share and the time value of the option was $120. The put option is not designated as a hedge. If the company has to prepare financial statements on March 31‚ 2010‚ what would the entry be? A debit to the Put Option and a a. credit to Unrealized Holding Gains/Losses – Income $805. b. credit to Unrealized Holding Gains/Losses – Equity $805. c. credit to Unrealized Holding
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