Suretta Smith ACC/491 Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Paper September 25, 2012 Instructor: Santos Alarcon, Jr. Abstract The purpose of this paper will be to describe the nature and functions of auditing. The following will be addressed in this paper: description of the elements of the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), description how these standards apply to financial, operational, and compliance audits, explanation of the effect that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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Yuliya Gaydarenko Prof. Franklin Unit 4 – Rough Draft July 11, 2013 The compliance audit, like other audit activities, is intended to provide feedback to management and the audit committee about the control environment, ongoing compliance and conditions for potential risk. The compliance audit should evaluate the effectiveness of the compliance management program, including policies and procedures, training, monitoring and consumer complaint response. A financial institution’s audit committee
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Audits were scheduled after a comprehensive risk assessment of the entire organization was performed. Thus, the internal auditing organization tried to ensure that important risks were being addressed. Douglass said he wished the FBI worked that way, instead it was forced to constantly react to emergencies. The first thing you do when you are assigned an internal audit or an external audit is to set audit objectives. This task is what makes it an audit and not a fishing expedition. Generally, the audit
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Building an Effective Internal IT Audit Function (While this topic is written from an internal auditor's perspective, the concepts and philosophies can be adapted to guide the external audit function as well) AUDIT DEPARTMENT PURPOSE Why does the internal audit department exist? What's the end goal? * Is our purpose to issue reports? * To raise issues? * To make people look bad? * To show how smart we are and how dishonest, incompetent, and corrupt the rest of the company is? *
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activities based on federal, state, and local laws. Additionally, the criteria that the Sarbanes-Oxley act would apply to this case will be addressed. Furthermore, a determination on whether or not the activities were equitable to internal and external stakeholders and what would be the best next step decision.
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100 Shoe Plaza Shoetown, ME 00001 Dear Mr. Bootwell, Thank you for taking the time to speak with Arnold Anderson, Darlene Wardlaw, and me last week. I understand from our conversation that you recently parted ways with your former auditing firm as a result of mutually incongruent goals. I appreciate your interest in Anderson, Olds, and Watershed (AOW) and want to explain some of the many audit and assurance services that my firm has to offer. As a publicly traded company, the
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January 23, 2011) Purpose The Committee is responsible for assisting the Board of Directors in its oversight responsibilities relating to (i) the integrity of the Company’s financial statements and financial reporting process; (ii) internal and external auditing, including the qualifications and independence of the independent registered public accounting firm and the performance of the Company’s internal audit services function; (iii) the integrity of the Company’s systems of internal accounting and
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Issues 1-. Is it necessary or appropriate for independent auditors to trust client executives? If so, to what extent should auditors trust client management? 2. a) What types of information should auditors obtain when evaluating the integrity of a prospective client’s executives? b ) What sources would they generally collect this information from? 3.a) Was it appropriate for Seidman & Seidman to resign as the audit firm of the company that chose Goldblum as its new president and CEO
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Michael Dobe Jr. Bernie Ebbers(left) 5340–Ethics CEO Timothy McCoy 4/6/2015 Scott Sullivan(right) CFO&CPA 1. Two General Accounting employees-Dan Renfroe and Angela Walter-made journal entries in the amount of $150 million and $771 million, respectively, without detailed support. It was noted that this was not out of the ordinary at WorldCom. In your opinion, was this a proper accounting practice? Explain. Normally at the end of each month, Worldcom
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considered an attest engagement An engagement to report on compliance with statutory requirements The primary reason for an audit by an independent, external firm is to Provide increased assurance to users as to the fairness of the financial statements Independent CPAs perform audits on the financial statements of issuers. This type of auditing can best be described as A discipline that attests to financial information presented by management Users of an issuers financial statements demand independent
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