reports of a company, but a huge sigh of relief for those that had the most to lose at the hands of fraud and illegal activity. Sarbanes-Oxley wasn’t something set into motion for little reason. The emerging scandals of huge corporations such as Enron, Tyco, ImClone, WorldCom, and others in the early years of the 21st century prompted Congress to pass the much needed reform (Bumgardner, 2003). It was something that could have prevented the decline of the stock market, at least at that time, had
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accounting fraud and auditor legal liability c a S eS inc lu de d in t hiS Se ction 4 89 99 4.1 Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP Analyzing the Fall of Two Giants . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Comptronix Corporation 4.3 Cendant Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Identifying Inherent Risk and Control Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 119 127 137 Assessing the Control Environment and Evaluating Risk of Financial Statement
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research Background The auditor’s roles are to provide an opinion on financial statement and to ensure that the statements are based on true and fair image of company performance to the stakeholders. They are authorized in checking the accuracy of business records. Opinions given by the auditor gives an added credibility to the financial statements (Maqableh, 2014). Commonly, investors often rely on financial statements provided by auditor in making investment judgement
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The Price of Unethical Behavior MGT7019-8 Ethics in Business Laura M Brooks July 21, 2013 We as a society have assumed companies in whole have been ethical in doing business. It wasn’t until Enron in 2001 that the public has become more aware of business activities. Shortly after Enron, Tyco International caught the public eye. One must first have an understanding of what it is to be ethical and moral. Once there is an understanding of these two terms, one may gain an appreciation of the
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THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE EXTERNAL COMPANY AUDITOR IN POST-ENRON SOUTH AFRICA Hannine Drake THESIS PRESENTED IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF LAWS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH Supervisor: Prof A.H. van Wyk March 2009 ii DECLARATION By submitting this thesis electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the owner of the copyright thereof (unless to the extent explicitly otherwise
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are inconclusive. The lack of research in the Hong Kong ´ˆ auditing environment motivates this study, particularly following the Enron debacle. The purpose of this paper is to examine the non-audit services (NASs), competition, rank and types of auditors, in respect of the independence problem as it relates to the practices of Hong Kong auditors in the post-Enron environment. Design/methodology/approach – Four independent variables identified from literature gaps are examined, namely NASs, levels
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The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 45 (2005) 48–64 Contagion effects of the world’s largest bankruptcy: the case of WorldCom Aigbe Akhigbea,∗ , Anna D. Martinb , Ann Marie Whytec a Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA b Department of Finance, Charles F. Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University, USA c Department of Finance, School of Business, University of Central Florida, USA Received 16 June 2003; received in
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Andrea Kelley ACC/561 Professor Melinda Gregg November 9, 2015 Introduction A regulatory agency is a representation of a governmental body, which is produced by a legislature. Regulatory agencies are implemented to enforce laws of legislative functions, executive functions, and judicial functions. The regulatory agencies plays a central role in the operation of the financial sector. There are a numerous variances of regulatory agencies, which all serve a different
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quality controls of their procedures and were now going to be overseen by the PCAOB. The objective of this essay is to analyze how the initial regulation on public companies itself provided the incentives for the existence of the Enron case and several similar cases and how additional regulation on the activities of public companies
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1. Introduction “The only constant is change”, as Heraclitus points out (Brainyquote.com). There is no doubt that the world has changed over time physically, economically, and culturally. As the world has evolved, so has business, and as business has evolved so has auditing. The concept of auditing is as old as civilization. The need for a knowledgeable, external, third person to verify transactions or accounts and detect fraud has been present since the advent of trade and accounting. Thus the
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