provide the presence of strong internal controls. ENRON possessed poor controls. * All transactions of a firm must be properly authorised meaning they must exist or occur e.g. * There must be accurate and complete accounting records. ERON’s CFO, Mr. Fastow was involved in tangling the accounting records and creative accounting to make the company look profitable. * Segregation of Duties must exist e.g. Andrew Fastow was CFO for ENRON but also the managing director for LJM and other offshore
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Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen (AA) contributed in several ways to the disaster of Enron. AA collected fees for consulting advice and approved as auditors and consultants the structure of Special Purpose Entities (SPE). The SPE’s were used to hide Enron’s true financial situation. False profits were generated, losses were hid, and financing was kept off of Enron’s consolidated financial statements. The auditors did not enforce Enron to institute internal controls
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|[pic] |Course Design Guide | | |School of Business | | |ACC/561 Version 4 | |
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China’s tainted baby milk powder 1. Yes I believe that there was some damage to Baidu.com reputation. According to the article there were rumors that Baidu.com was accepting payments to keep information from surfacing regarding the tainted milk during a search, which goes against the integrity of the company. Also Baidu.com was under attack for not separating paid advertisements from non-paid search results. 2. Because of the rumors, it could cause the stakeholders to lose confidence
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Role and Functions of Law Role and Functions of Law Without laws our society as a whole would be chaos. While some people live their lives by their morals, others make decisions solely based on consequences. Laws are designed to rule the people that don’t take their personal morals into account when making decisions, or people that have a set of morals that are way different than the norm. Without a clear set of consequences people would likely be running around all “willy-nilly” murdering
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Cookie Jar Reserves and Conservative Accounting ACCT 495 Professor Jastrzebski Fall 2013 Cookie Jar Reserves and Conservative Accounting SUMMARY O'Brian Software, a multimillion dollar software company, provides custom software systems, maintenance, support and training. Nick, a recent college graduate, just began working for the family run software company. After being hired to the firm's accounting department, Nick began to suspect unintentional
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and Corporate and Auditing Accountability and responsibility Act ( in the House) commonly known as SOX act or Sarbox Act. Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine System and Worldcom. I think Sarbanes Oxley Act was indeed the wake up call for all those companies who violates the laws, those who has a fraudulent financial activity and those who are involved into illegal
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Full Disclosure Paper ACC/421 Full Disclosure Paper Disclosure is information regarding an activity of financial records that creditors, investors, and humans should know what when on in the company or organization regarding the finances increase or decrease. This includes strikes in the company, major fire, theft, a bad product, or a product that is at a high-demand regarding the time of year. Hurricane season in Houston a few years back. The weather reporter states
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PRINCIPLES OF AUDITING The field of accounting offers its candidates several career choices from Tax Accountant, Payroll Accountant, CPA, and Forensic Accountant just to name a few. Most of the jobs require a Bachelors’ Degree from an accredited university. Local accounting firms (AKA) public accounting firms provide services such as preparing taxes for business or personal, located within the city limits. The federal, state, and local taxes that are due from or to the business or individual
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Materiality The Sarbanes-Oxley requirement for companies to develop key control processes has brought new attention to the well-known concept of materiality. CPAs need to be able to identify key control exceptions and apply materiality to determine their financial impact. First we need to know what material is; in accounting something that is material is something that is significant. Material information is something that would vastly affect the financial statements of a company. If that material
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