managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resources. Auditor is the person appointed to conduct an examination of the records, to form an opinion about the authenticity and correctness of such records, by verifying the correctness and reliability of the recorded transactions from the evidences available, opinion and inference reachable based on his expertise 1 . Duties and responsibilities of accountant 1. Prepare profit and loss statements and monthly
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litigation and criticism against auditors may be due to the audit expectation gap. The audit expectation gap is defined as the difference between what the public expects from an audit and what the audit profession accepts the audit objective to be. The audit expectation gap is critical to the auditing profession because the greater the unfulfilled expectations of the public, the lower the credibility, earning potential and prestige associated with the work of auditors. The objective of this paper
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before. So, they engaged with the external Auditor Aziz & Co. (Chartered Accountant). The auditor need to performed statutory audit for the period 2003 to 2006. There are some mistakes happened during the last two years founded by the auditors. To resolve several issues, the auditors need to qualify the Financial Statements. However, Encik Zayed and Puan Hashimah tried to negotiate with the auditor to not qualify the Financial Statements. The auditor was not agreeing with the Encik Zayed negotiation
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Statement. Besides, we are able to know the importance of corporate governance in the business world. A part from that, we are notice about the principle of separation of ownership and management in the company relating to the director’s fiduciary duty to the company. Plus, we need to recognize the code of ethics for Company Secretary. Last but not least, we should consider other aspects in this case to reflect the best recommendation to achieve the effectiveness and efficiency of the business management
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Negligence: The Basic Principles of Duty of Care The arrangement of this and subsequent chapters Negligence is a large and amorphous subject, and all parts of the law on it are interlocking. It is often difficult to understand one part without having studied the whole, and therefore in arranging the material I have decided to set out the basic principles first, leaving the more sophisticated developments until later. Accordingly the next three chapters on duty, standard of care, causation and remoteness
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on achieving short term performance of satyam 2. Greed for money, power,success and prestige- Greed for money, power,success and prestige compelled mr.Raju to “ ride on tiger” . his greed overshadowing the responsibility to meet fiduciary duties- duty of care, duty of loyalty. 3.Whistle blower policy- Whistle blower policy of satyam not being effective. 4.Opaque disclosure strategy- Satyam adopt deceptive reporting practices. There was lack of transparency. 5.Inflated financial statement –Satyam presented
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4 Negligence: duty of care Learning objectives At the end of this chapter you should be able to: • have an overview of the history of negligence; • describe the function of duty of care in negligence; • appreciate the way duty of care has been defined and developed; and • apply the principles of duty of care in the areas of omissions and liability of public bodies. 04-Bermin-Chap04.indd 42 2/6/2008 7:39:32 PM 4.1 Introduction Negligence began to be recognised as a tort in its own
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How to improve and maintain the independence of external auditors Auditor's responsibility is to give advice based on the company's annual financial statements. A company will work with the auditor's annual report of the decision. So this is an important auditor to provide accurate reports. (Dr Jill, Professor Robin)[online] An independent auditor to give the opinion that is no other factors. It includes human, economic, monetary, and so on. Their view is that there is no limit, and give them the
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complications. The audit expectation gap exists when the public user and auditors have different beliefs about what an auditor’s responsibility should be. In the past few years, auditors have been unwillingly placed in the spotlight. The expectation gap has affected and deteriorated accountants’ credibility. The reason to this is that public users have expectations from auditors, for example, Salehi says, “the primary responsibility of an auditor is to verify whether the financial statements exhibit a true
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“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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