A professional judgment is a key factor in auditing. As a result of development of auditing and accounting industry‚ especially after a series of accounting fraud and auditing failure cases‚ such as Enron and Arthur Andersen‚ in the last decade‚ professional judgments is becoming a more and more important aspect for the independent auditing industry. Recently‚ many countries and professional bad issued more strict auditing standards to emphasize to this point. It means the auditor should be required
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Q: “Auditing begins where accounting ends. State points of difference between accounting and auditing? “Auditing begins where accounting ends” Accounting is a process of maintaining business records. Joint stock companies are required by law to maintain proper record of business transactions. Maintaining books of accounts and preparing financial statement is a prime responsibility of directors. The shareholders are ambitious to see that their investment is safe. It is therefore imperative
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Financial Control Auditing in an Electronic Environment (e-Auditing) Presented to Dr. Marwa Tarek Presented By: Pierre Guirguis 9104428 Rimon Abd El-Meseih 9104386 Mahmoud Mohamed Refaat Auditing in an Electronic Environment (e-Auditing) * What is e-Auditing? Electronic auditing‚ or e-Auditing‚ is computer-assisted auditing that uses electronic records to complete all or part of the audit. If you use a computer to record your business activity and maintain this data electronically
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Repairing Society’s Perception of the Accounting Profession in a Troubled Time INTRODUCTION Accountants are held to a high ethical standard because of the sensitive financial information they encounter and the type of financial documents the produce. After events such as Enron surfaced‚ the accounting profession as a whole came under fire and our reputations are in question. These scandals reveled what can happen if accountants do not act in an ethical manner and why it is so important
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101-1). In Goodbread’s case this refers to the fact that he had shares of stock (direct financial interest) in his possession when he was the audit engagement partner who oversaw the audit of Koger Properties‚ Inc. Under the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) there are three sections‚ General Standards‚ Standards of Fieldwork‚ and Standards of Reporting. Under the General Standards section of GAAS there is a specific standard for independence and it reads‚ “The auditor must maintain
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Auditing is a systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between those assertions and established criteria and communicating the results to interested users (Boynton & Johnson‚ 2006). In auditing there are many attributes that describes the auditor’s work. Elements of the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards are followed by auditors. The Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
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Ethics Auditing: Identify the benefits and limits of ethics auditing. Is there a strategic role that ethics auditing may play in a company? Ethics Auditing By definition‚ an ethics audit is a “systematic evaluation of an organization’s ethics program and/or performance to determine its effectiveness.” (1) This concept of ethics auditing is fairly new and few companies have conducted an ethics audit. However‚ performing such audits will likely become more mainstream as recent legislation encourages
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this study deliberate that‚ the risks management and corporate governance related activities of internal auditors are incorporated merely as statutory obligations and do not provide additional value to the stakeholders. We assert that that internal auditing in Tanzania commercial banks is still embracing the conservative approach which is primarily concerned with compliance and monitoring rather than adopting value added approach. The inference of the study is more crucial to the agency theory whereby
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201037076 Puriza U. Topic: Using technology to improve internal audit communications in the Banking Sector Background Internal auditing has come a long way over the last two or three decades. In the past‚ internal auditing was seen as a mechanism to double-check the thousands of financial transactions that were posted to the accounts each week. Today an internal auditor facilitates the development of suitable controls as part of a wider risk strategy‚ and provides assurances on the reliability
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Fundamentals of Internal Auditing September 5-7‚ 2007 A Three-Day Tutorial Philadelphia‚ PA on Internal Auditing September 19-21‚ 2007 Las Vegas‚ NV Basics October 15-17‚ 2007 Houston‚ TX • Get a well-grounded foundation in the concepts of traditional and operational auditing November 5-7‚ 2007 San Francisco‚ CA November 12-14‚ 2007 • Gain proven tools and techniques for performing value-added audits in the era of Sarbanes-Oxley and PCAOB Boston‚ MA December
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