law to prepare and provide financial statements for each accounting period. This has been the case since the conception of The Companies Act 1948’ (Flint‚ 1982)‚ last amended in 1985. Although it’s been over 55 years of reporting entities preparing financial statements‚ the objective of these statements has always been a matter of discussion. The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) came up with a precise outline in 1999 which stated "The objective of financial statements is to provide information about
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Report on Financial Statement Fraud Scheme Name ACC 556 Date Instructor NameReport on Financial Statement Fraud Scheme TO: Organization’s Management FROM: Learning Team DATE: SUBJECT: Fraud Examination Findings A Summary of the Matter under Investigation Crazy Eddie Electronics Stores a chattered company‚ traded under the symbol CRXY on the New York Stock Exchange. The company was under management of Eddie Antar family from 1971 until 1987 when Oppenheimer-Palmieri Fund (OPF) took
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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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Combined Financial Statements and Credit Group Financial Information December 31‚ 2012 and 2011 (With Independent Auditors’ Reports Thereon) KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN‚ INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES AND KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS AND SUBSIDIARIES Table of Contents Page Independent Auditors’ Report 1 Financial Statements: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan‚ Inc. and Subsidiaries and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Subsidiaries: Combined Balance Sheets 2 Combined Statements of Operations
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Information Technology‚ Internal Control‚and Financial Statement Audits By Thomas A. Ratcliffe and Paul Munter In Brief ASB Tackles IT System Control Risk Modern data processing systems pose new‚ risk-laden challenges to the traditional audit process. Whereas it was once possible to conduct a financial statement audit by assessing and monitoring the controls over paper-based transaction and accounting systems‚ businesses have increasingly turned to electronic transaction and accounting
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Financial Statements XACC/290 January 12‚ 2014 Melissa Drayton Financial Statements There are four basic financial statements: balance sheet‚ income statement‚ retained earnings statement‚ and statement of cash flows. These financial statements would include an overview of the assets‚ liabilities‚ expenses‚ and revenues of the business. Financial statements are useful not only to internal user; such as managers and employees‚ but also to external users; such as investors and creditors to
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Financial Statements Accounting is a function by which users can understand the internal financial workings of a company. Use of public accounting dates as far back as the late nineteenth century (Hendrickson‚ 2007) and continues today under the set guidelines that accounting professionals refer to as generally accepted accounting principles. These principles are set in the United States by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission (Weygandt‚ p. 9‚ 2008)
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Financial Statement Companies use several tools such as a balance sheet to make sound business decisions. A balance sheet is a quantitative summary of a company ’s financial condition at a specific point in time‚ including assets‚ liabilities and net worth. The first part of a balance sheet shows all the productive assets a company owns‚ and the second part shows all the financing methods (such as liabilities and shareholders ’ equity) Also‚ called statement of condition.
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increase‚ due in part to growing financial markets and the lingering recession. The auditor’s responsibility to detect corporate fraud has also been on a general upward trend over the years. Especially since the Enron scandal‚ auditors are now required to be more proactive in searching for fraud when performing an audit. This responsibility is defined in International Standards on Auditing and enforced through legislation in national jurisdictions. This report identifies the factors that should
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Beginning the Audit Report Kimberly Cummings ACC/546 January 19‚ 2015 Jacob Mathews Beginning the Audit Report MEMORANDUM January 19‚ 2015 To: Senior Partner From: Kim Cummings Re: Apollo Shoes Audit Dear Senior Partner: As you know‚ our firm has been selected to perform the Apollo Shoes audit. The planning process has been the most delicate stage as we want to ensure we have a solid audit approach. The team I select will be dedicated in meeting the objectives and strategies for completing the
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