on the auditing staff of a Big Six accounting firm‚ Leigh Ann Walker was assigned to work on the audit of Saint Andrew’s Hospital. While nervous about her first assignment‚ Ms. Walker was excited to be working under Jackie Vaughn‚ a third-year senior. Early in the engagement‚ Ms. Vaughn casually asked Ms. Walker if she had taken the CPA exam. Ms. Walker had in fact attempted the exam‚ but told Ms. Vaughn that she had not yet taken it. Ms. Walker was scared that she had not passed on her first attempt
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Leigh Ann Walker Case 1. In your opinion‚ did Vaughn overreact to Walker’s admission that she had been untruthful regarding the CPA exam? If so‚ how would you have dealt with the situation if you had been in Vaughn’s position? How would you have dealt with the situation if you had been in Robert’s position? In my opinion‚ Vaughn did overreact to the Walker’s admission. Although Walker should be responsible for telling the truth about her CPA exam‚ she does not have to tell all her privacy
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After we reviewed the case of Leigh Ann Walker and discussed it as a group‚ we felt that Jackie Vaughn overreacted to Walker’s admission that she had been untruthful regarding the CPA exam. Walker was only trying to protect her reputation when she had told Vaughn that she had not taken the CPA exam in May and was planning on taking it in November. She had been given a great opportunity in her mind to start her career working with a well-respected individual within the company such as Jackie Vaughn
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3.4 LEIGH ANN WALKER‚ STAFF ACCOUNTANT CASE Leigh Anit Walker graduated from a major state university in the spring of 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.1 During her college career‚ Walker earned a 3.9 grade point average and was involved in many extracurricular activities‚ including several student business organizations. Her closest friends often teased her about the busy schedule she maintained and the fact that she was‚ at times‚ a little too “intense.” During the fall of
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not taken it because she feared that she was going to fail. I believe it is important to be completely honest and have integrity while working in an audit firm. If Walker lied about not taking the exam‚ she easily could have lied about other “small” things. However‚ if it was me in Vaughn’s position‚ I would have also fired Walker. A recently hired accountant to the firm should always be telling the truth no matter what. Members of the firm should have complete honesty with one another and a
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All individuals in the hierarchy need to be trusted to perform the audit to the best of their ability. If I were Vaughn my main concern would be that I couldn’t trust Walker to do honest work. As seen later in the audit‚ Vaughn had to trust her staff to stay behind and work on the audit unsupervised. How would I know if Walker actually performed the test procedures or just simply filled in the blanks with numbers similar to the prior years work papers. I may have asked Roberts if there was somebody
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AUDITING (ACCTG 442) Case 6.1 Written Report I have proofread the final draft and made the necessary corrections. (Writer) I have proofread at least one earlier complete draft of this report. As part of that proofreading process‚ I provided to the writer suggestions on how to improve the report. (Coordinator)
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A Loss for Words is narrated by Lou Ann Walker. From the time she was a toddler‚ Lou Ann Walker was the ears and voice for her deaf parents. Through the narration of this book‚ she recounts the stories about her growing up with two deaf parents. "To the hearing world the deaf community must seem like a secret society. Indeed‚ deafness is a culture every bit as distinctive as any an anthropologist might study." (pg.22). The journey of this secret society for her and her parents begins as her parents
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3/27/13 Vivian Leigh There have been hundreds of thousand world renowned actors and actresses from all over the world. Many of which have won numerous awards and have made quite a name for themselves. Often times actors and actresses start from the very bottom‚ even from childhood working hard to get where they are or once were. This is much like actress Vivian Leigh. She had a hardworking childhood‚ and worked her way up the food chain to earn what is now considered a household name. “Born on
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that I will most likely be using is Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The idea of the paper is to expand on the idea of how motherly figures within the work present different iterations of the role of a female during the period. The secondary sources I will be using for the assignment will‚ first off‚ outline the accepted role of a female during the period. The sources will also cover other topics such as a motherhood based argument on Aurora Leigh itself by expanding on each of the motherly
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