“Critically discussed if there are real reasons why institutional investors should be concerned about the independence and genuine effectiveness of the audit function? Search the findings of academic papers and other published sources to support your view.” Introduction An institutional investor is an organization that invests on behalf of the organization’s members. These investors are a part of corporate governance for companies and they have large amounts of money to invest. In Malaysia, there
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Congress in order to protect investors and the public interest by promoting accurate, informative, and independent audit reports. The PCAOB aims to improve audit quality, reduce the risks of auditing failures in the U.S. public securities market and promote public trust in both the financial reporting process and auditing profession. (PCAOB, 2012). PCAOB necessitate senior financial managers to enforce a code of conduct ("The sarbanes-oxley act," 2003). This code
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Canadian Requirements for Auditor Independence Background In December of 2003, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants adopted new auditor independence requirements that hold auditors to higher professional and ethical standards, thereby further protecting the public interest. The new standard is the result of a rigorous review, consultation and approval process lasting more than a year, and reflects the features of the updated global standard issued by the International Federation of
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Article Review: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Melissa Adams LAW/421 October 16, 2014 Mrs. Lydia Quarles Article Review: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX Act) of 2002, passed by the United States Congress with the intention of protecting investors from fraudulent activities experienced by business entities or corporations. The enactment of the SOX Act happened at a time when various scandals such as Tyco, Enron, and
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Case 1.11 WorldCom: The Definition of an Asset Line Cost Expenses WorldCom generally maintained its own lines for local service in heavily populated urban areas. However, it relied on non-WorldCom networks to complete most residential and commercial calls outside of these urban areas and paid the owners of the networks to use their services. For example, a call from a WorldCom customer in Boston to Rome might start on a local (Boston) phone company’s line, flow to WorldCom’s own network, and then
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INTRODUCTION 1. This standard explains what constitutes audit evidence and establishes requirements regarding designing and performing audit procedures to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence. 2. Audit evidence is all the information, whether obtained from audit procedures or other sources, that is used by the auditor in arriving at the conclusions on which the auditor's opinion is based. Audit evidence consists of both information that supports and corroborates management's
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Board Bylaws and Rules – Standards – AS3 AUDITING STANDARD No. 3 – Audit Documentation June 9, 2004 AUDITING AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE STANDARDS Auditing Standard No. 3 – Audit Documentation [Effective pursuant to SEC Release No. 34-50253; File No. PCAOB-2004-05, August 25, 2004] 302 As of February 15, 2005 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Bylaws and Rules – Standards – AS3 Auditing and Related Professional Practice Standards Auditing Standard No. 3, Audit Documentation [supersedes
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Faizal Bin Jamaluddin | Rosnida Binti Othman |Nur Iliza Binti Misnan | Syaifulradzman Bin Shaifuddin | Asmidar Binti Ahmad@Salleh | Majdi@Abdul Hadi Bin Ishak | Hasmawazi Binti Hamzah | Azwira Binti Mahmud |Nur Azreen Azriana Binti Azham | PA 603 Auditing and Assurance PA 603AUDITING AND ASSURANCE CASE STUDY: Phase 2,3 & 4 PROBLEM BASED LEARNING PROCESS STAGES 1 PBL ACTION PROCESS Group Introduction students to PBL via experiential learning Setting Assign student with a course guide that
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reasonable assurance of creditability of the firms. Banks generally rely on the financial information of the firms. They do prefer credible audited financial statements by independent auditors as a matter of assurance. In other words, most banks view auditing as a guarantee for the quality of information disclosed in companies as well as a foundation for their credit rating process. Banks believe that the credit rating would be unsure without audit obligation (Andersson & Paulsson, 2005 as cited in Ademi
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maintenance of fixed assets, and dealings with short and long term investments as well as liabilities. As previously stated finance and investment are initiated at the dawning of a company’s very existence so establishment of internal controls and the auditing of those controls should be designed as necessary. Investing in a venture is based on a sense of faith and hope. Investors believe (by persuasion of course) that the product and/or services a venture provides has potential to succeed but hope
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