...the second week of class. Please call the Associate VP for Student Support- 872-3178. My intention is to honor all legitimate requests. The deadline is necessary to allow sufficient time for a meaningful solution. Exceptional circumstances will also be considered at any time during the semester. Student Evaluation: Tests – 2 tests (mid-term and final- 100 pts each) 200 pts Cases: 6 total cases Group Cases: You are leader- 1@ 50 pts 50 pts You are group member- 2@25 pts 50 pts Individual Cases- 3 @ 33.33 pts 100 pts Total Points 400 pts Textbooks: Arens, Elder and , Auditing & Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach 15th ed., Prentice-Hall, 2014 Trussel, John M. and Frazer, J. Douglas The Lakeside Company: Case Studies in Auditing, 12th edition, Prentice-Hall , 2012 Student Learning Objectives- The student will be able to: 1. incorporate professional standards into case analyses and essay responses. 2. perform as a group leader and as a group member to organize work and present it in a professional manner. 3. develop solutions in light of both general business ethics and the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct. 4. demonstrate facility with basic audit steps and the documentation of such work. 5. demonstrate how...
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...Case One — Solutions HIH Insurance Limited: Inherent Risk Assessment, Legal Liability, Ethics and Audit Reports The case can be used either progressively through the course using questions relating to chapters as they are taught or as a consolidating case at the end of the course. Where possible, students should be encouraged to concurrently research information in the press relating to HIH while they undertake the case. Clearly, the points for discussion may change as further information becomes available. As the legal proceedings in the case are still in progress, the suggested discussion points are not intended in any way to comment on or compromise any investigation. All information provided in the case is available in the public domain. Question 1 —Business Risk and Inherent Risk Assessments a) How would you assess the business risk of HIH Insurance Limited? This question relates to Chapter 6 of the text. HIH's business risk can be discussed in terms of its global, local and control environment. It can also be discussed in terms of understanding the insurance industry and secondly how HIH fits into the industry or by undertaking a SWOT analysis. You may wish to address all three. Below is one approach. This can be built upon be further research by the students and as more information becomes available. • Profitability and structure of the industry. The insurance industry is particularly competitive and there has been significant increase in price competition...
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...decision-making process in both an audit of financial statements and an audit of internal controls over financial reporting. The class consists of lecture, individual case studies and in class exercises. Students are given an introduction to the following topics: • Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) • The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and its related rules and interpretations • An auditors’ legal responsibilities • Auditors professional judgment • The evaluation and testing of internal controls • The effect of IT on the audit process • The development of an audit program • PCAOB standards • The auditor's reports Book: Auditing and Assurance Services by Arens, Elder and Beasley 14ed Publisher Pearson/PrenHall ISBN 978013257595 |2013 |Topic |Assignment/Chapter to read | |Thursday September 5th |Introduction to the CPA Profession and the Auditing |Chapters 1 and 2 | | |Environment | | | | | | |Thursday September 12th |Introduction to the CPA Profession and the Auditing |Chapters 1 and 2 ...
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...The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration Department of Accounting...
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...the university of texas at austin ACC 358C, Introduction to Assurance Services (Cross-listed as ACC 380K.4) Course Syllabus Spring 2012 Times and Location: TTh 8:00 – 9:30 (unique no. 02320 for ACC 358C and 02405 for ACC 380K.4) TTh 9:30 – 11:00 (unique no. 02325 for ACC 358C and 02410 for ACC 380K.4) TTh 12:30 – 2:00 (unique no. 02335 for ACC 358C and 02420 for ACC 380K.4) TTh 2:00 - 3:30 (unique no. 02340 for ACC 358C and 02425 for ACC 380K.4) The morning classes will be held in GSB 2.122. The afternoon classes will be held in GSB 5.153. Note: Please attend the section in which you are enrolled. However, if an emergency or unavoidable conflict on a particular day causes you to miss class, you may attend another section. Please do not abuse this privilege. Instructor Mark Bradshaw, M.P.A., M.B.A., J.D. Forensics Consultant to PwC Audit Professor in Residence, KPMG (2007) Office: GSB.5.124E; Ph.: 475-8852; E-mail: mark.bradshaw@mccombs.utexas.edu Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:15 – 12:15 and by appointment. I generally prefer e-mail as a means of contact outside of class and office hours. Teaching Assistants Star Yuan, traditional M.P.A. student E-mail: star.y.yuan@gmail.com Ashley Ross, 5th year integrated M.P.A. student E-mail: ashley.ross@bba07.mccombs.utexas.edu Star and Ashley will assist with the grading of cases and exams. After graded cases are returned throughout the semester, they will schedule office...
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... Fall 2013 Course Outline AP/ADMS 4552 3.0 Section A and B Information Systems Audit Term: Fall 2013 COURSE: AP/ADMS 4552 3.0 Sections A and B Information Systems Audit Schedule First day of class: Section A: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, Location: HNE 030 Section B: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Location: HNE 032 REQUIRED COURSE TEXT/READINGS: • Hall, James A., (2011), Information Technology Auditing, 3e, Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning (Referred to as “IT Audit Text” in the Readings List for each class) • Additional material as listed in the course outline. This includes articles referenced by links, readings from books that were required for prerequisite courses, cases and assignment details posted on our web site. • CICA Assurance Handbook, as available online from York University library, (referred to as “Handbook” in the Readings List for each class). Selected readings are from: [Note this book is available on reserve at the business library in the Schulich building if you do not have a copy.] • Arens, A., R. J. Elder, M. S. Beasley and I. B. Splettstoesser-Hogeterp. 2011. Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian 11th Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall: Toronto. (Referred to as “Audit Text” in the Readings List) References for the 12th Canadian edition of the Audit text (as an alternative to the 11th edition) will be provided separately as a document...
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...CHAPTER 1 Auditing and Assurance Services LEARNING OBJECTIVES | | |Exercises and | | | |Problems | | |Review Checkpoints | | | | | | |Define information risk and explain how auditing and assurance services play|1, 2, 3 |48, 50 | |a role in reducing this business risk. | | | | | | | |Define and contrast accounting, auditing, and assurance services. |4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |47 | | | | | |Describe and define the management assertions embodied in financial |9, 10, 11 |52, 54 | |statements, and why auditors use them as a focal point of the audit. ...
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...Chapter 1 The Financial Manager and the Firm Learning Objectives 1. Identify the key financial decisions facing the financial manager of any business firm. 2. Identify the basic forms of business organization used in the United States, and review their respective strengths and weaknesses. 3. Describe the typical organization of the financial function in a large corporation. 4. Explain why maximizing the current value of the firm’s stock price is the appropriate goal for management. 5. Discuss how agency conflicts affect the goal of maximizing stockholder wealth. 6. Explain why ethics is an appropriate topic in the study of corporate finance. I. Chapter Outline 1.1 The Role of the Financial Manager A. It’s All about Cash Flows • The financial manager is responsible for making decisions that are in the best interest of the firm’s owners. • A firm generates cash flows by selling the goods and services produced by its productive assets and human capital. After meeting its obligations, the firm can pay the remaining cash, called residual cash flows, to the owners as a cash dividend, or it can keep the money and reinvest the cash in the business. • A firm is unprofitable when it fails to generate sufficient cash flows to pay operating expenses, creditors, and taxes. Firms that are unprofitable over time will be forced into bankruptcy by their creditors. In bankruptcy, the company will be reorganized, or the company’s...
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...| |UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN (UTAR) | | |FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE (FBF) | | |Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting | Unit Plan | | | | | |Unit Code & |UBAF 2023 AUDITING | | |Unit Title: | | | | | | | |Course of Study: |Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting | | | | | | |Year...
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...CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO ASSURANCE AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT AUDITING Answers to Review Questions 1-1 The study of auditing is more conceptual in nature compared to other accounting courses. Rather than focusing on learning the rules, techniques, and computations required to prepare financial statements, auditing emphasizes learning a framework of analytical and logical skills to evaluate the relevance and reliability of the systems and processes responsible for financial information, as well as the information itself. To be successful, students must learn the framework and then learn to use logic and common sense in applying auditing concepts to various circumstances and situations. Understanding auditing can improve the decision making ability of consultants, business managers, and accountants by providing a framework for evaluating the usefulness and reliability of information. 1-2 There is a demand for auditing in a free-market economy because the agency relationship between an absentee owner and a manager produces a natural conflict of interest due to the information asymmetry that exists between the owner and manager. As a result, the agent agrees to be monitored as part of his/her employment contract. Auditing appears to be a cost-effective form of monitoring. The empirical evidence suggests auditing was demanded prior to government regulation such as statutory audit requirements. Additionally, many private companies and other entities not subject...
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...above texts are published by Prentice Hall and are available as a bundled package. Prerequisites Computer Resources: Course Objectives: This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of professional auditing as practiced in the United States. Our discussions will focus on various aspects of the auditing profession. Successful completion of this course will provide you with a basic understanding of: * The auditor's consideration of financial statement cycles, * The evaluation of audit evidence, and * The issues related to completing an audit. Honor Code: Each student is expected to behave in a manner that brings honor to himself or herself, to the student body, and to the university community. In keeping with this expectation, students should be familiar with requirements of the Honor System Constitution. All class assignments are expected to be your original work. You are not permitted to use solutions manuals, solutions from prior semester materials, or another student’s materials in completing assignments. All university policies regarding cheating, plagiarism, falsification, nonattendance, and illnesses will be strictly applied and enforced in this course. The Honor Code will be strictly enforced in this course and all aspects of your coursework are covered by Honor System. All assignments submitted to the instructor shall be...
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...CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Auditing SOLUTIONS FOR REVIEW CHECKPOINTS 1-1 Auditors add credibility to financial information provided by the accountable party such as management (i.e. auditors make the financial or other information more likely to be true). Other common ways of characterizing this property of audited numbers is that the numbers are more accurate, have higher assurance, or are more reliable. These relate to different dimension of truthfulness, as we discuss later in the text. 1-2 Auditing is the verification of numbers provided by others. To attest means to lend credibility or to vouch for the truth or accuracy of the statements that one party makes to another. The attest function is a term often applied to the activities of independent PAs when acting as auditors of financial statements. Since financial statements are prepared by managers of an entity who have authority and responsibility for financial success or failure, an outsider may be skeptical that the statements are objective, free from bias, fully informative, and free from material error--intentional or inadvertent. The audit opinion of an independent-PA auditor helps resolve those doubts because the auditor's success depends upon his independent, objective, and competent assessment of the conformity of the financial statements with GAAP. The auditor's role is to lend credibility to the statements, hence the outsider will likely seek his independent audit opinion. 1-3 Client:...
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...Compliments of on IBM Limited Editi ose, Consolidate Cl & Report Learn to: • Distinguish between the closing, consolidating, and financial reporting processes • Use integration and automation to ensure data integrity and streamline CCR activities • Identify the right CCR solution for your organization Maire Loughran These materials are the copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. and any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Close, Consolidate & Report FOR DUMmIES by Maire Loughran ‰ IBM LIMITED EDITION These materials are the copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. and any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Close, Consolidate & Report For Dummies® IBM Limited Edition , Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2011 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online...
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...CHAPTER 2 OVERVIEW OF AUDITING I. Review Questions 1. One definition of auditing is that it is a systematic process by which a competent, independent person objectively obtains and evaluates 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. The Philippine Standards on Auditing (PSA) 120 “Framework of Philippine Standards on Auditing” states the objective of an audit as follows: “The objective of an audit of financial statements is to enable the auditor to express an opinion whether the financial statements are prepared in all material respects, in accordance with an identified financial reporting framework.” 2. This apparent paradox arises from the distinction between the function of auditing and the function of accounting. The accounting function is the process of recording, classifying and summarizing economic events to provide relevant information to decision makers. The rules of accounting are the criteria used by the auditor for evaluating the presentation of economic events for financial statements and he or she must therefore have an understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), as well as generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS). The accountant need not, and frequently does not, understand what auditors do, unless he or she is involved in doing audits, or has been trained...
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...London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto Table of Contents Chapter 1 Integrity: The Basis for Ethics in Accounting 1 What Is Ethics? 1 Definition 1 Application of Ethical Reasoning in Accounting DigitPrint Case 33 32 Conclusion 34 Discussion Questions 34 Endnotes 36 Chapter 2 Cases 37 2 Case 2-1: A Faulty Budget 38 Case 2-2: Better Boston Beans 39 Case 2-3: Eating Time 40 Case 2-4: Is Internal Whistle-Blowing "Right"? Case 2-5: Play Ball 43 Case 2-6: Supreme Designs, Inc. 44 Case 2- 7: The City of West Buckle 46 Case 2-8: The CPA Review Course 47 Case 2-9: The Ethics ofiPod-ing 48 Case 2-10: The Tax Return 49 Distinguishing between Ethics and Morality Religious and Philosophical Foundations of Ethics 3 Teleology 4 Deontology 6 41 Acting with Integrity Personal Integrity 8 7 The Moral Point of View 7 The Six Pillars of Character.... 8 Trustworthiness 8 Respect 10 Responsibility 10 Fairness 11 Caring 11 Citizenship 12 Chapter 3 Ethical Decision Making in Business 50 What Is Business Ethics? 51 Ethical Issues in Business 51 Virtue, Character, and CPA Obligations 12 Scope and Organization of the Text 12 Conclusion 14 Discussion Questions 14 Endnotes 15 Chapter 1 Cases 17 Case 1-1: A Student s Dilemma 18 Case 1-2: Giles and Regas 19 Case 1-3: Jason Tybell 21 Case 1-4: Lone Star School District 23 Case 1-5: Reneging on a Promise 24 Foundations of Corporate Governance...
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