MEMO To: Andrey Simonov From: Vivian Jeansonne Subject: Internal Controls and the Auditing of Internal Controls Date: March 19, 2013 _________________________________________________ The Internal Control—Integrated Framework, published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), defines internal control as “a process, effected by an entity’s board of directors, management and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding
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How the Sarbanes Oxley act affected the audit industry The government change in policy that has the biggest influence on my career choice has to be the Sarbanes Oley act of 2002. This act is what influenced my decision not be an auditor in a big six firm or smaller accounting firm, this change in law is why I choose to go into the private company accounting route. First let me start off by informing you want the Sarbanes – Oxley act is, it is a government act that changed the old SAS no. 59 as a
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SPE 135734 Difference Between Traditional and Risk Based Auditing Danny Spadaccini, Weatherford International Copyright 2010, Society of Petroleum Engineers This paper was prepared for presentation at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Florence, Italy, 19–22 September 2010. This paper was selected for presentation by an SPE program committee following review of information contained in an abstract submitted by the author(s). Contents of the paper have not been reviewed
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mistatement earlier. Owing the fact, that the responsibility of the appointed auditor’s is clearly stipulated in the auditing standards that they have to carry out necessary audit procedures and investigation in order to detect the material mistatements. But a point to note is that the auditor’s are not neccessarily needed to detect any fraud according to the new revised auditing standard. Thus, auditor’s should take reasonable care when analysing the financial statements given by the company so
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NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Anderson, Leona M. MGT7019 | Dr. Jennifer Scott | | | Ethics in Business | Case Study: A primer on Sarbanes- Oxley | <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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Ethicality of Accounting Activities ETH 376 May 6, 2013 Susan Paris Ethicality of Accounting Activities The WorldCom case shows an example of what unethical behavior is. Cynthia Cooper indicated the activities were fraudulent and describes the individuals involved. More than one department was to blame for the fraud at WorldCom. Cynthia Cooper with the help of Glyn Smith initiated the audit that led to the unethical activities within the company. WorldCom inflated their earnings to
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risk—which could ultimately harm our firm. The risks associated with this client include: Ocean Manufacturing has had problems with their auditors. Over the past 12 years Ocean Manufacturing switched auditors three times and had problems agreeing on auditing fees. The previous auditor had two major problems with Ocean: Ocean’s complex IT system and managements’ tendency to aggressively reflect year-end accruals and revenue in order to meet creditor requirements. In addition, there have been many problems
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entity's management. The primary objective of an audit is to add credibility to management's financial statements. The typical audit performed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) involves obtaining and evaluating evidence concerning management's financial statements. Auditing culminates in the issuance of an audit report that contains the auditor's opinion on whether the financial statements do in fact present fairly the entity's financial position, results of operations
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about their financial statements, which will be used by the bank to help secure the loan. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a significant influence on this particular audit. This significant influence can be observed within the auditing standards that have been followed by Keller CPAs in this audit. The six ethical principles of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Code of Professional Conduct will be observed during this
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In this paper Blokdijk et al. investigate the Planning Materiality (PM) values used by Dutch auditors performed by Big 5 and non-Big 5 firms between 1998 and 1999. They study whether there is a relationship between Planning Materiality, the client’s size, the client’s control environment, the client’s rate of return on assets and the client’s complexity. They also study whether Planning Materiality values differ between Big 5 and non-Big 5 firms. Given the vagueness of guidance for using certain
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