11, 20012 Larry Lancaster President & CEO Apollo Shoes, Inc. 100 Shoe Plaza Shoetown, ME 00001 Dear Mr. Lancaster: Discussion of Regulations & Guidelines related to SOX section 404 Significant Regulations and guidelines related to audits of internal control Internal control is a very significant aspect for any organization in order to avoid or distinguish fraudulent acts and misstatements in financial reporting. Apollo Shoes’ existing rule should require that the planning, sustaining
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Corporate governance can be defined as communication of audit matters with those charged with governance (ISA 260). Governance itself describes the role of person entrusted with the supervision, control and direction of an entity. Different company may have different bodies who responsible for the corporate governance. But nowadays, audit committee has been the important components of this responsibility as most of the company placed this role to audit committee. Even in ISA 260 requires auditor to actually
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Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia ABSTRACT The Malaysian Approved Standards on Auditing, AI 240 on “Fraud and Error” (MIA, 1997) requires the auditor to assess the risk of fraud and error during the audit of financial statements. Based on the risk assessment, the auditor should design audit procedures to obtain reasonable assurance that misstatements arising from fraud and error that are material to the financial statements taken as a whole are detected. Inability of the external auditor to
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The Fraud Triangle 9/22/2012 Allison Walton | The Fraud Triangle The fraud triangle are conditions for fraud arising from fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets. These conditions are: a. Incentive/Pressure b. Opportunities c. Attitude/Rationalization The fraud triangle is depicted by the following image: Incentive/Pressure Management or other employees will have incentives or circumstances of pressure to commit fraud. If the decision is made by management
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STEEBY VS FIAL Tort Liability Charles Fial and Roger J. Steeby entered into a partnership called Audit Consultants to perform auditing services. Pursuant to the agreement, they shared equally the equity, income, and profits of the partnership. Originally, they performed the auditing services themselves, but as business increased, they engaged independent contractors to do some of the audit work. Fial’s activities generated approximately 80 percent of the partnership’s revenues. Unhappy with their
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Analysis and Resolution of Client Issues Risk Analysis Flash Technologies, Inc., a company that designs, manufactures and markets an extensive line of PC cards, is showing a rapidly growing and currently they engaged our firm to perform the annual audit because they determined that their previous auditors could no longer provide the necessary support due to its increased international investments. Thus we are hereby to make a thorough analysis of the business risks of the company. As we will see,
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Homework: Term Paper GEB2430 Business Ethics & Social Responsibility Dr. Harvey Weiss June 16th, 2012 Abstract The main purpose of this research paper is to show how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 may have contributed to holding corporate executives accountable for their actions then and for the future. This research paper will examine and discuss the origin of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and go into detail regarding the eleven titles, or sections, of the document that it consists of. This
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Facts Before the merger, Michael Goodbread served as an audit partner in Touche Ross. In December 1988, Goodbread bought 400 shares of common stock from Koger Properties, Inc. After the effective year of the merger in 1989, Koger automatically became an audit client of Deloitte & Touche instead. Also, Goodbread got an identical position in Deloitte & Touche in the same year. In the following year, Goodbread was assigned to be an audit engagement partner in association with Koger’s financial statements
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opinion, with proper use of analytical procedures Ernst & Whinney should have detected the overstatement of the leased assets. The following analytical procedures should have been used, at least at the planning and overall review stages of the audit. Trend analysis is the analysis of changes in an account balance over time. Ernst & Whinney could have compared the balances of the leased assets and rent income and their changes over the years. Also, Ratio analysis could have been used to
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would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the current changes in the Statement of Accounting Standards. On October 2008, the AICPA Standards Board issued a new standard called Communicating Internal Control Related Matters Identified in an Audit (SAS No. 115). This policy was created to guide external auditors on how they should communicate with internal controls on deficiencies of their financial reporting of the financial statements. SAS No. 115 provides the following definitions of
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