Case #3 The Lakeside Company: Auditing Cases Analysis of a Potential Audit Client · Benjamin Rogers is president of the Lakeside Company‚ a retailer/ distributer of consumer electronics. · Rogers is unsatisfied with King and Company’s CPAs‚ and has been in contact with Abernethy and Chapman. · Abernethy and Chapman has never had a client in this field and they look forward to breaking into a new market. · Lakeside has grown at a steady rate in the last decade
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The Lakeside Company: Analysis of a Potential Audit Client Benjamin M. Rogers is the president of the Lakeside Company‚ a retailer and distributor of consumer electronics (such as televisions) based in Richmond‚ Virginia. Although King and Company CPAs‚ a Richmond firm‚ had previously audited Lakeside‚ Rogers has recently become aware of the CPA firm of Abernethy and Chapman from reading several advertisements. His interest in the firm was heightened when he discovered that Abernethy and Chapman
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Purposive sampling Purposive sampling‚ also known as judgmental‚ selective or subjective sampling‚ is a type of non-probability sampling technique. Non-probability sampling focuses on sampling techniques where the units that are investigated are based on the judgement of the researcher. Purposive sampling explained Purposive sampling represents a group of different non-probability sampling techniques. Also known as judgmental‚ selectiveor subjective sampling‚ purposive sampling relies on
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Exercise #2………………………………………………………………………………..8 Discussion Questions 1. The owners of Lakeside as well as the company’s bank may require that an independent CPA firm perform an annual audit because the CPA firm could have an independence issue. The CPA firm in that Lakeside wants to hire is also the auditors for Lakesides main financial bank. The bank is a “main” user of the report put out by Lakesides auditor and in this case would be that banks auditor too. The connection is too close for the
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Evaluation Professor: Dr. Elidio T. Acibar Reporter: Evelyn L. Embate Topic: Sampling SAMPLING Measuring a small portion of something and then making a general statement about the whole thing. Advantages of sampling Sampling makes possible the study of a large‚ heterogeneous population It is almost impossible to reach the whole population to be studied. Thus‚ sampling makes possible this kind of study because in sampling only a small portion of the population may be involved in the study‚ enabling
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February 7‚ 2013 Abernathy and Chapman Wallace Andrews Lakeside 1235 Sentry Drive Richmond‚ Virginia 66266 Dear Mr. Wallace‚ We have researched the issues that were discussed regarding the possibility of Lakeside Company going public and the ramifications this action would have on their desirability as a client. We have also analyzed Lakeside Company’s financial statements to evaluate the possibility of misstatements. Attached‚ you will find our report discussing these issues. Please
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Sampling is the use of a subset of the population to represent the whole population. Probability sampling‚ or random sampling‚ is a sampling technique in which the probability of getting any particular sample may be calculated. Nonprobability sampling does not meet this criterion and should be used with caution. Nonprobability sampling techniques cannot be used to infer from the sample to the general population. The advantage of nonprobability sampling is its lower cost compared to probability sampling
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Sampling and Sampling Methods There are many research questions we would like to answer that involve populations that are too large to consider learning about every member of the population. How have wages of European workers changed over the past ten years? Questions such as this are important in understanding the world around us‚ yet it would be impractical‚ if not impossible‚ to measure the wages of all European workers. Generally‚ in answering such questions‚ social scientists examine a fraction
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“Deciding on a sampling procedure for a study on understanding teaching and learning relations for minority children in Botswana classrooms” Sampling is a very important statistical tool used by researchers to find accurate results that represents the complete attributes of population. Different types of sampling are used for different type of data. For example: probability sampling is used for quantitative data as attributes of such data can easily be generalized to population
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to a decrease in costs of goods sold which leads to an increase in net income. Anytime a company wants a higher net income there is the potential for over counting of inventory. This potential problem is especially significant in the audit of the Lakeside stores because manager’s of the each store get a bonus based on the store’s net income. They are also the same people who count the inventory. It would be very tempting for the managers to over-count their inventory in order to increase their bonus
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