company. During the course of the audit, Barber discovered that DGF has been making illegal bribes to foreign government officials to obtain business, and he reported the matter to senior management and the board of directors of DGF. a. If management and the board of directors take appropriate remedial action, should Barber be required to report the matter outside the company? If they take the appropriate remedial action, then Barber is not required to report the matter outside the company. The
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loan from the bank, they are now requiring an audit of the corporate financial statements of Smackey Dog Foods, Inc. before they will approve the new loan. My firm, Keller CPAs, has been hired to conduct an audit of Smackey’s financial statements and form an opinion about their financial statements, which will be used by the bank to help secure the loan. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a significant influence on this particular audit. This significant influence can be observed
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system (Introduction to SOX, n.d). During that period, companies such as Enron and Sunbeam Corporation abruptly filed for bankruptcy or devalued overnight. This occurred largely because they concealed the real state of their financial health on audit reports (Livingston, 2003, p.7). In response to these scandals the US Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Many of the provisions in SOX give additional powers to the SEC, including jurisdiction over the new Public Accounting Oversight
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to conceal large operating losses. During 2001, a series of circumstances, including a sharp decline in the price of Enron’s stock, forced the company to assume control and ownership of many of its troubled SPEs. As a result, Enron was forced to report a large loss in
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Audit Program Design Part II Company: Apollo Shoe Company Audit Begins: January 19, 2010 Audit Ends: March 31, 2010 (Tentative) AUDIT SCOPE: Sales/revenue and collection cycle Payroll and personnel cycle Acquisition and payment cycle All Transactions, orders, and payments processed January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007 AUDIT OBJECTIVES: • To determine internal control compliance to sub objectives for payroll and personnel cycle, sales/revenue and collection cycle, and the
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demand for accountability by the public has influenced reporting for not-for-profit and governmental entities. State and federal regulators are reviewing, audit reports of agencies like ours that receive federal grants and loan monies. Their purpose is to “ensure that independent audit firms are in compliance with Generally Accepted Audit Standards (GAAS) and recently added requirements under Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) or yellow book standards”. The reporting requirements
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Deloitte's audit team had been auditing Adelphia and Rigas for numerous years. The 2000 audit remained largely unchanged from prior years. The team consisted of about twenty staff accountants and tax professionals, divided into subgroups that were supervised by ten Deloitte managers and headed by senior manager William Caswell, who reported directly to Dearlove. Several of the Deloitte managers had significant prior experience auditing and reviewing Adelphia's annual and quarterly reports: Caswell
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internal & external) to provide written assurance on a subject matter using a series of auditors’ reports issued simultaneously with, or a short period of time after, the occurrence of events underlying the subject matter (Searcy and Woodroof, 2003). The Institute of Internal Auditors' (IIA) Global Technology Audit Guide (GTAG 3) defined continuous auditing as any method used by auditors to perform audit-related activities (including control and risk assessments) on a more continuous (occurring without
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SCIENTIFIC PAPER AFASES Brasov MANAGEMENT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES USED TO ENSURE THE INTERNAL AUDIT PERFORMANCE Marian SFETCU Phd. Student, Faculty of Economics Sciences and Business Administration of „Babeș - Bolyai” University of Cluj Napoca.E-mail: marian_sfetcu@yahoo.com. Tel: 0720 760 220 Abstract: This approach shows a research on the usage of managemental methods on the internal audit activity through qualitative and quantitative indicators of performance assurance. Balanced Scorecard
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Independent Audit Firms SOX section 404 on Internal Control The Main Advantages and Disadvantages of SOX Executive Summary The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was intended to create more transparency in financial reporting and to combat the perceived inflation of CEO compensation. To do this, the act required that a board of directors be financially independent from the CEO and have no familial ties. It also required the CEO and CFO to personally sign all quarterly and annual reports submitted
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