an officer of a client impairs the independence of the CPA. True False 4. Financial interests of a CPA's nondependent children are attributed directly to the CPA. True False 5. Statements on Accounting and Review Services are enforceable under the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. True False 6. CPAs may not advertise as to any special expertise other than in accounting, auditing, and tax. True False 7. A CPA may receive a commission for recommending
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Professional Conduct includes two sections: principles of professional conduct and rules of conduct. The principles of professional conduct provide the framework for the rules of conduct. The framework for the Code of Professional Conduct includes six fundamental ethical principles. The first two principles mention about a CPA’s responsibilities to exercise professional and moral judgment in a manner that serves the public interest. The third and fourth principles require CPA maintain integrity and objectivity
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Evaluate the role played by the International Accounting Standards Board’s Conceptual Framework (2010) in ensuring a high quality, principles-based international financial reporting system The primary objective of financial reporting as set out in the IASB’s Conceptual Framework is to provide financial information to existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors in making decisions about providing resources to the entity; to enable efficiency of operation of capital markets and
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Beyond Contract Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 2, 2001 Bonvin, J.-M. Debt and the Jubilee: Pacing the Economy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 1, 1999 Dembinski, P. H. (leading contributor) Economic and Financial Globalization: What the Numbers Say United Nations, Geneva, 2003 Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski Carole Lager Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin in association with the Observatoire
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Code of Ethics Fundamental Principles Integrity Objectivity Professional competence and due care Confidentiality Professional behaviour * * APES 110, s290 provides specific guidance on independence requirements for audit and review engagements, while s291 provides similar requirements for other assurance engagements (don’t quote s291 or marks deducted in first assignment) Corporate Governance System by which companies are directed and managed covers conduct of board of directors
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achievement of E/R ratio. However, the industry began to deteriorate in 2000 due to economic recession and other reasons, such as overcapacity and heightened competition. Despite the falling in revenue, the management of WorldCom tend to manipulate the accounting entries by accrual releases and capitalization of line cost in order to achieve the targeted performance. The scheme lowered line costs (the company’s largest single expense) by capitalizing them as “prepaid capacity” and reversing allowances without
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Ethics Matters 1 Ethics and Ethical Dilemma 2 Creating an Ethical Environment 3 Reasons for Unethical Behavior 4 Ethical issues in Finance 4 Financial Statement 5 Fictitious Revenues 5 Off-balance Sheet Financing 5 Hidden Reserves 5 Hostile Takeovers 6 Insider Trading 6 Introduction Ethics in general is concerned with human behavior that is acceptable or "right" and that is not acceptable or "wrong" based on conventional morality. General ethical norms encompass truthfulness
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aggressive financial reporting practice, this model increased the likelihood of material misstatements. It enabled the management to overstate its revenue while not disclosing the actual value of its debt. The risk of fraud by management was high. The transactions involving SPE's essentially involved Enron receiving borrowed funds that were shown as revenue without recording liabilities. Also, the amount of misstatements was huge as Enron had hundreds of such SPE's. Complex financial derivative transactions
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Chapter 1 The Canadian Financial Reporting Environment Prepared by: Dragan Stojanovic, CA Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto The Canadian Financial Reporting Environment Role of Financial Reporting • Financial statements and financial reporting • Accounting and capital allocation •Stakeholders Objective of Financial Reporting •Management bias •Users’ needs Standard Setting • Need to develop standards • Parties involved in standard setting • Standard setting in a political
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common characteristic of Aristotle's virtues and ethical standards for CPAs? A. Truthfulness B. Integrity C. Loyalty D. Due care Jane finds a material misstatement while auditing a client's accounts receivables. Her senior tells her to ignore the misstatement so that the client does not get upset. Jane wants to be viewed as a team player in order to advance in the firm. So Jane follows her senior's instructions and ignores the misstatement. Which ethical theory did Jane use to make her decision? A. Egoism
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