extreme measures to conceal the fraud from his company’s audit committee and independent auditors. Despite those measures, the independent auditors identified suspicious entries in the company’s accounting records that were a result of the CFO’s fraudulent scheme but did not properly investigate those items. Shortly before the fraud was publicly revealed, a partner of the company’s audit firm instructed his subordinates to alter prior year audit workpapers for the client to conceal improper decisions
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Chapter Four Professional Accounting in the Public Interest, Post-Enron Purpose of the Chapter When the Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom debacles triggered the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a new era of stakeholder expectations was crystallized for the business world and particularly for the professional accountants that serve in it. The drift away from the professional accountant’s role as a fiduciary to that of a businessperson was called into question and reversed. The principles
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S T N C O N T E Notice of Annual General Meeting 2 Statement Accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting 3 Corporate Information 4 Profile of the Board of Directors 5 Audit Committee Report 7 Statement of Corporate Governance 11 Statement on Risk Management and Internal Control 15 Directors’ Responsibility Statement and Other Information 17 Chairman’s Statement 19 Directors’ Report 21 Consolidated Statements of Financial Position 25 Statements of Profit
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organizational objectives. An internal control system includes organizational design, written policies and procedures, operating practices, and barriers that protect assets and personnel. Also internal control addresses risk assessment, control activities, communication processes, and monitoring processes (eNotes, 2012). Internal control systems discourage and identify incidents of errors and irregularities that may occur. Organizations that use the insurance and portfolio approaches to manage risks are beginning
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This chapter goes over the section of 404 of the Sarbanes oxley Act 2002 (sox). The rules of management that SEC had released in June 2003 on internal contual they are1) implement the requirements of section 404 of SOX. 2) Amended the officer certifications required by sections 302 and 906 of SOX. 3) The delayed the originally proposed effective date for filling management’s report on internal control over financial reporting. Managers must implement the establishing and maintains adequate internal
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Audit Fees, and Audit Opinions Long Chen School of Management George Mason University E-mail: lchenk@gmu.edu Bin Srinidhi Department of Accountancy City University of Hong Kong E-mail: acbin@cityu.edu.hk Albert Tsang School of Accountancy The Chinese University of Hong Kong E-mail: albert.tsang@cuhk.edu.hk Wei Yu Department of Accounting and Information Management The University of Tennessee E-mail: wyu4@utk.edu March 30, 2012
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DISCUSSION 1. A company profit-sharing arrangement is a matter of auditor concern because it provides an incentive for employees to generate artificially high income figures. These individuals can receive direct financial benefits from the manipulation of reported earnings. This potential problem is even more of a concern in the Lakeside engagement because controls are weak and each store is geographically isolated from the oversight provided by the administrative offices. 2. This case describes
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Rigorous or Not?: A Case of Auditor Judgment for Deferred Tax Issues Leader’s Guide Leader’s Guide Rigorous or Not?: A Case of Auditor Judgment for Deferred Tax Issues Jan Taylor Morris, PhD, CPA Time: 3 hour unit of study Module Objectives 1. Help students understand the importance of exercising high quality professional judgment; 2. Introduce students to the KPMG Professional Judgment Framework; 3. Provide students with an opportunity to apply the framework; and 4. Provide students with the
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could cause risk and determine how to manage the risks. Third, manage and maintain control activities that will reduce fraud occurrence by developing policies and procedures aimed to manage the risks. The fourth factor is the information and communication control that ensures all parties have access and knowledge of the appropriate information to manage the risks at all levels of the organization as well as appropriate external third parties. The fifth and final control is monitoring the internal
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Part A Introduction Risk management has become a significant part in an organisation. There are always uncertainties in the process of achieving the goals of an organisation and uncertainties will lead to risks. According to insurance industry professionals, “risk is a condition where there is possibility of an adverse deviation from a desired outcome that is expected or hoped for.” Chapman (2011) stated, “Companies that treat risk management as merely compliance issue expose themselves to nursing
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