reasonable diligence in the discharge of the duties of his office. In this matter the answer is yes, there’s an abuse of power by the management and breach of fiduciary duty of director. A fiduciary is someone who is in control of property in which others have an interest, or is given a power which is exercised on behalf of those who are in a position of dependence. That person owes a duty of loyalty and good faith. As a fiduciary, a director’s duties are: a) Duty to exercise power in good faith and
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tool for a lot of jobs. Auditors rely on computer technology to execute many job roles, use the benefits of software tools, and use methods to become more well-organized and successful. Computer-assisted audit tools, known as CAATs, and audit productivity tools are two types of software tools. CAATs assist the auditors with the evaluation of application controls. CAATs also choose and examine data for significant audit evaluations. Audit productivity tools assist auditors in reducing the number of
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cannot be part of a working paper. Due to lack of informations , including it to the working paper would mislead other auditors in using those figures. Thus, working papers should only contain results that are clear for the users to understand and interpret. But in this case, as for the amount of inventory that is under a very big impression of impossibility of existence, the auditor herself should have at least kept a documentation that an attempt of a roll forward has been made . A disclosure of such
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CASE STUDY-WEEK 3 We learned in Chapter 2 that the fraud triangle identifies three critical elements that generally must exist in order for fraud to occur. They are: Motive: motivation, incitement, stimulus, spur; influence, occasion, ground, cause. Motive, incentive, inducement apply to whatever moves one to action. Motive is, literally, something that moves a person; an inducement something that leads a person on; an incentive something that inspires a person. Motive is applied mainly to
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Question: Why is it important for external auditors to be independent? Relate your answer to the primary role of external auditors. Give examples of specific ways the lack of auditor independence may impact adversely on an audit. Auditing can be defined as the systematic process of obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between those assertions and established criteria and communicating the results to interested
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Unit: Six Professor: Bunney Schmidt Student: Saad Panja Company and Situation: Created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or PCAOB requires auditors of U.S. public companies be subject to external and independent oversight. As well as a “provision requiring auditors to evaluate the effectiveness of companies’ audit committees” (Sharp Paine & Eric Bettcher, 2006). On October 2002 there were four appointed members and two of them were Goelzer and
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• There must be a duty care owed to the party suing the auditor. • There must be a breach of duty of care (failure to follow GAAS, negligent audit). • There must be proof that the party suffered a loss or damage • There must be a connection between the party’s loss or damage and the breach of the duty. Question A HHH Company’s Case • HHH hired the auditors; therefore the auditors owe a duty of case to the shareholders. • The shareholders would have to show that the auditors were negligent in
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clients, accountants have an ethical responsibility to: protect them, provide accurate financial information, represent them with enthusiasm and maintain high ethical standards. Accountants’ responsibilities to third parties consist of the accountant’s duty of care, possessing the necessary skills and acting the good faith. An accountant’s responsibility to the government is to provide accurate information to the public and to the government, they also have the responsibility to follow and obey the laws
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PCAOB Reporting Requirements Forensic Accounting: ACC-571 January 28, 2012 A Practical Guide to the New PCAOB Reporting Requirements Created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or PCAOB requires auditors of U.S. public companies be subject to external and independent oversight. Congress established the PCAOB in order to protect investors and the public interest by promoting accurate, informative, and independent audit reports. The PCAOB aims to improve
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Manuel Dolorica is no longer liable with the accusations brought out by the whistle blower. The moment the whistle blower came out and made known to the public the corruptions of government officials, Manuel is not working as an auditor for the government anymore. As an auditor, he performed his responsibility of auditing the government funds and reporting his findings with evidences that proved his discoveries which he did not try to conceal. His liability is limited to reporting the result of the
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