new shares, demand meetings with the senior managements of companies regards to their performance, vote on key issues at general meetings and communicate on other matters affecting shareholders' interest. The institutional investor which is an external party that are independence from the management can be seen as a check and balance mechanism in enhancing the effectiveness of the audit function because of their unique position in the company. They are the outsiders but they have voices that can
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AC 557 Unit: Six Professor: Bunney Schmidt Student: Saad Panja Company and Situation: Created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or PCAOB requires auditors of U.S. public companies be subject to external and independent oversight. As well as a “provision requiring auditors to evaluate the effectiveness of companies’ audit committees” (Sharp Paine & Eric Bettcher, 2006). On October 2002 there were four appointed members and two of them were Goelzer
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Research Method Internal Auditing versus external Auditing When it comes to the subject of the audit, one will often find the concepts of internal audit and external audit. If these two audits are necessary for the good functioning of company, and if the collected sources agree that the skills required for these two notions are relatively identical, it remains not only tasks and the environment of the internal auditor and the external auditor differ. In order to best support our report, we
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Case 2.1 ENRON 1. Auditor independence: the independence the internal audito,r or of the external auditor from anyone that may have a financial interest in the business which is being audited. Independence of the internal auditor means independence from parties whose interests might be harmed by the results of an audit Independence. This requires integrity and an objective approach to the audit process. The concept requires the auditor to carry out his or her work freely and in an objective manner
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system efficiency IS Auditing system effectiveness data integrity 8 Information Technology Auditing IT audits: provide audit services where processes or data, or both, are embedded in technologies (Hall, 2011). Joint with internal, external, and fraud audits Scope of IT audit coverage is increasing Characterized by CAATTs IT governance as part of corporate governance 9 Phases of the Information Systems Audit 1. Initial review and evaluation of the area to be audited
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Summary of “Asleep at the Wheel (Again)? Bank Audits During the Lead-up to the Financial Crisis” During the period before the most recent financial crisis, auditors failed to give advance warnings of systemic risk, leading some of financial institutions collapsed. After research, the investigator suggests that lack of advance warning results from the limitations of existing auditing and regulation and accounting institutions rather than from the inattention of potential risk made by auditors.
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ANALYSIS OF OBSERVATION OF PHYSICAL INVENTORY COUNT Physical inventory counting is a much unloved procedure in most merchandising and manufacturing businesses. The process ensures that the inventory on the company's financial books matches the amount of inventory on the sales floor, stockroom or warehouse. Many businesses undergo a thorough annual inventory count, usually at the end of either the calendar or their fiscal year. Sample, or cycle, counts are often conducted between full inventory
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Case 1-2 Giles and Regas 4/21/2015 1.Facts Ed Giles, 35 year old CPA and a partner at Saduga & Micha accounting firm Susan Regas, 25 year old senior accountant in the same firm Giles and Regas been dating for four months They well know firm policy does not permit different ranks to date Most of the staff seem to know about their relationship Regas was assigned to audit CAA industry under Giles supervision Giles and Regas spending personal time during
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Ms. Jill Karnick, the BDO Seidman semi-senior who had been assigned the primary responsibility for auditing HMI's inventory account, took the witness stand. Karnick revealed in fact, she had attempted during the audit to perform an inventory roll forward, which is essentially equivalent to an inventory roll back. But she didn't continue to carry out the test for it was "normal practice" to discard the results of inconclusive audit test. Working paper must contain an accurate statements and data
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