Audit Program Design Part I ACC/546 Auditing Monday, July 14, 2014 Anderson, Olds and Watershed (AOW) 1 Fraud Free Way Shoetown, ME 00001 July 25, 2014 Mr. Larry Lancaster Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Apollo Shoes, Inc. 100 Shoe Plaza Shoetown, ME 00001 Dear Mr. Lancaster: This letter will confirm our understanding of the arrangement for our engagement of an independent audit of the internal controls of Apollo Shoes, Inc. This letter will outline the nature and
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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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Audit Process Letter Laura Sferra ACC/546 November 23, 2015 Allen Foster Mrs. Susan Right Senior Partner Anderson, Olds, and Watershed 1 Shoe Street New York, NY. 90001 Dear Mrs. Right, Mr. Lancaster, President of Apollo Shoes, has expressed his satisfaction with the services that our firm offers and would like to continue with a full audit. Because our client does not want our firm to talk to the predecessor auditor, I recommend
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a publicly-traded company, should have an audit committee overseeing its internal financial reporting integrity. This audit committee would oversees the audits, both internal and external. Once found evidence of fraudulent accounting, external auditors must communicate the findings within Apollo with the committee or other governing body. External auditors also report the effect that the fraud may result with Apollo. We would plan and conduct our audit with professional skepticism. We are required
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internally it had highly decentralized financial control and decision-making structure, which made it practically impossible to get coherent and clear view on corporations' activities and operations. Enron manipulated its books and assets to help it report steady profit growth to Stock Exchanges and Credit-rating agencies. Investors generally are not willing to pay as much for the stock of a volatile trading operation, and this gave rise to manipulations. This paper briefly describes the legal and
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 I. Introduction The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (Pub.L. 107-204, 116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002), also known as the 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act' (in the Senate) and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act' (in the House) and commonly called Sarbanes–Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law enacted on July 30, 2002, which set new or enhanced standards for all U.S. public company boards, management
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MIT765801 AUDITING Individual Assignment HIH Insurance Report Student Name: Jinyun Wang Student ID: MIT122634 Lecturer Name: Susan Currie Tutor Name: Susan Currie Due Date: 29 / 1 / 2014 Submitted date: 7/ 2/ 2014 by email Executive Summary The auditing profession plays a significant role in industrialized economies for many years. In the insurance industry, the manner of auditing profession is regulated. The collapse of Health International Holdings (HIH) was recorded as the biggest
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Audit Program Design Part II ACC/546 January 31, 2011 At Anderson, Olds, and Watershed, we have developed the following test of controls, substantive test of transactions, and analytical procedures for the audit of the sales and collection cycle, the payroll and personnel cycle, and the acquisition and payment cycle of Apollo Shoe Company. The tests are consistent with generally accepted auditing methods in The United States of America. The tests will be designed to prove existence, completeness
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control environment, (2) Risk assessment, (3) control activities, (4) Monitoring and (5) information and communication 9) The control environment is the tone set for the organization as the foundation for all other components of internal control 10) Audit committee is a subcommittee of the BOD that is generally composed of 3-6 independt members in the entity’s day-to-day management of the organizations BOD. 11) Risk assessment for an entity is used to find the business risk that a firm faces and how
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two (2) separate components, a group based component and an individual component. The first component (group case study assignment) is based on Harvey Norman Holdings Limited and its controlled entities (ASX code HVN) and consists of a written report to be completed in groups. Groups of four (4) students are to be formed within your tutorial groups. Only one submission per group is to be made by the due date and time i.e. you should nominate one member to submit. The objective of the group
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