Title: When Bonding Fails: Audit Firm Oversight of US-Listed Chinese Companies Date: 15/11/23 Author: Joseph V. Carcello, Brian T. Carver, Clive S. Lennox, Terry L. Neal A. Describe the research problem or question. Evaluate the importance of the research question to audit practice. First, this paper composed by Joseph V. Carcello et al describes the traditional bonding argument failed for US-listed Chinese companies due to a lack of audit quality and audit firm oversight. Last,
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fraud, and obstruction of justice on September 14, 2010. This paper will describe the company and the fraud that was involved, outline an audit plan that could have prevented the fraud from occurring, determine and evaluate key types of audit evidence, and speculate two areas that would require more sampling and two areas that require less sampling in the audit process. Description of Company, Fraud, and Fraud Drivers David Brooks was the founder and CEO of DHB Industries, a government
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Main Themes of Papers Francis: Francis mostly focuses on auditors and if he believes that they have virtue of auditor honesty which equates to independence. However, he argues that the auditing practice in itself has anti-independence factors that may suggest otherwise. These include: the appearance of financial independence, client confidentiality, and emphasis of service. The point is that all three of these can combine in such a way as to create a commercial relationship that subordinates the
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Audit Program Design ACC/546 Chandria Willis August 3, 2015 Frank G. Elliot Apollo Shoes, Inc.
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Controlling System Within Unilever Commerce Essay Unilever has an immovable control experience, which is agreed and frequently reviewed by the Boards. This incorporates risk management, internal control procedures and operations control which are planned to provide rational, but not complete, security that assets are refreshed, the risks facing the business are being addressed and all information required to be released is reported to the Group's senior management, including where appropriate the
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Case 3.4 Sunbeam: Incentives and Pressure to Commit Fraud 1. Consult paragraph 9 of PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5. Based on your understanding of inherent risk assessment and the case information. Identify three specific factors about Sunbeam that might cause you to elevate inherent risk. The fact that the structure of the organization was in major flux and that the employees were probably in chaos mode with all the terminations in management, I am sure that the overall tone from the top
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GA-2 | No | 3.Draft short staffing requirements memo | | | Planning | | 37 | Yes | Varies | Yes | Note you do not need to search for audit programs – Refer to Blackboard for Audit Program Templates that are included with each audit area. You will need to reference and sign off each audit step as required (note that all audit steps provided in the audit program may not be needed.) | | | Planning | | 38 | Yes | GA-3 | Yes | Draft workpaper for the notes and information obtained from the
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performing adequate and appropriate audit procedures. Also if the engagement team did not perform adequate and appropriate procedures, describe what additional procedures we will perform. At the begin, the audit team did not identify and assessed the appropriately assess the risks of material misstatement (AS No. 12). They did not obtain an understanding of the company and its environments and they did not perform risk assessment procedures to design their audit. The Audit team did not test for the accuracy
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AUDIT CRUNCH: REFORMING AUDITING 3 Fundamental Flaws in Current Audit Practice 1st point From this journal, it mainly focuses on the debating of three issues which are deeply embedded in the current auditing practices. Firstly, auditing model is one of the fundamental issues that exist in the auditing practices. It makes auditors’ financially dependent upon companies and persuades them to prioritize their own economic interest at the expense of other parties which may have an interest in audits
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for each case: 1) Type of communication (memo, letter or report) 2) Who is writing 3) To whom the case is being written to 4) The time frame. a. ie when in the audit: beginning, middle, end; there is no point writing about issues at beginning of audit if the audit is over and there is a draft audit report b. ie regarding purchase or sale of property: has the decision already been made to buy the property (shares or assets) or not; and if so, has the financing been decided
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