Recommendation Brief for an Internal Auditor Candace L. Beard ACC 544 May 23, 2011 Joseph Poletti Recommendation Brief for an Internal Auditor Internal auditing helps companies to look at ways of improving and achieving short-term and long-term objectives. Internal auditors are hired to perform internal audits that look at a company’s operations, investigating fraud, financial reporting, safeguarding assets, and compliance of the laws and regulations set for companies. The internal auditors
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Case 3.1 1. The alternatives available to Brent are working at the normal pace, trying to rush the work with the normal sample size, or cut the sample size. If Brent chose to work at the normal pace he would get the best and most accurate result. Being accurate and sure of the results is what Brent’s employer expects out of him. Brent’s next option is “eating time” i.e., working off the clock, and then turning in that he worked the 35 hours to come in at budget. The pro to this option is that
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types of audits that maybe used for each process. Then recommend the audit that will most fit the needs of KFF as well as give an explanation of how the audit will be conducted. KFF will also be informed of events that might prevent the reliance on auditing through the computer. An audit for IT involves evaluating the computer’s role for achieving audits and control objectives. These audits look at the components for the AIS for the users, procedures, hardware, software, data communications and the
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Internal Auditor Blanca O Colon ACC 544 Internal Controls April 4, 2011 Master Science Accounting Daniel Stevens Internal Auditor This document has as its main objective to inform the company the reasons for hiring an internal auditor who shall have the obligation to inform their reporting through the administrative and financial management of the company in the time required. Not only should they cover financial areas within its audit, also will have the opportunity to report on performance
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Vial-tek has an existing loan in the amount of $3.5 million with an annual interest rate of 9.5%. The company provides an internal company-prepared financial statement to the bank under the loan agreement. Two competing banks have offered to replace Vial-tek’s existing loan agreement with a new one. First National Bank has offered to loan Vial-tek $3.5 million at a rate of 8.5% but requires Vial-tek to provide financial statements that have been reviewed by a CPA firm. City First Bank has offered
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Accounting Information Systems Homework Risk Assessment of Societe Generale COSO IC Component | Control Issue | Strength or Weakness | Risk Likelihood(L, M, H) | Risk Impact(L, M, H) | Risk Type(F, C, O) | Control Environment | The most serious control deficiencies was they did allowing trading after hours. It was a poor design. b) Allowing a broker’s name to be missing or listening is a problem of bad design. It is important to know who are you trading with because the traders may not know
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1) What are the steps of auditing process? Briefly describe each one of them. 1. Pre-engagement Activities Pre- engagement activities are the processes of determining risks, choosing the best team for the engaged firm and agreeing on the terms of engagement which includes the engagement letter. 2. Preliminary Planning Preliminary planning is analyzing the internal and external factors that might have an effect on the entity’s financial status. In this step, the chosen audit team
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Australia’s internal control structure • Developing preliminary audit strategies for significant assertions The main source used in planning the audit is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s annual financial report together with the relevant auditing standards: 1. ASA300 - Planning an Audit of a Financial Report 2. ASA315 - Understanding the entity and its environment and assessing the risk of material misstatement and 3. ASA320 - Materiality and audit adjustments. In
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Comverse Technology Inc Backdating Stock Options – Overstating of Net Income Comverse Technology Inc is a provider of software and systems enabling net-work based multimedia communications services. It is a publicly traded corporation on the S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100. It was founded in 1984 and publicly traded since 1986; Comverse Technology Inc is based in New York. Comverse Technology has 5 subsidiary companies. They are Comverse, Verint, Ulticom, Startel, and Starhome. Each subsidiary
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was signed by the Chief Financial Officer. This helps ensure that the filings are correct, comply with SEC reporting requirements, and are properly communicate to stakeholders in the management of Barnes & Noble, Inc. The organization uses internal auditing committee called the “Audit Committee “. The Audit Committee reviews the company’s financial reporting process on behalf of the Board of Directors. Barnes & Noble also uses and independent auditor that is responsible for expressing an opinion of
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