Content Abstract 3 Introduction 4 The Accountant’s responsibility to clients 4 The Accountant’s responsibility to third parties 5 The Accountant’s responsibility to the government 5 Action or claims against accountants by clients 6 Action or claims against accountants by third parties 6-7 Action or claims against accountants by the government 7 Accounting-Client privilege 7 Whistleblowing 8 Conclusion 8-9 Reference
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had specifically advised Walter, who was chair of the Audit Committee, that the NAB was not exposed to the risk of FX losses as occurred in another overseas bank earlier that year. The external auditor, KPMG, had raised concerns about the NAB’s FX trading in 2001 and 2002. John Thorn resigned as a partner of PwC in September 2003 to become a director of the NAB and a member of the Audit Committee the following month. The board’s Risk Management Committee had been formed by the NAB in August 2003 with
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SEMESTER 2 2011 CPA 118 ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE CPA - ETHNIC SEMESTER 2 2011 MODULE 1 ACCOUNTING AND SOCIETY 1.05 1.05 Part A: Ineraction with society Depictions of A/cting Depiction Defeating depictions defeat Fig 1.1 new bean counter How to become professional? 3 aspects 1.06 Recruiting the best Beard(1994),Smith and Briggs(1999) and Simnik and Felton(2006) Friedman& Lyne(2001);Albrecht and Sack(2000);Coate et al.(2003) Jeacle: colourful accountant linked to corporate collapses 1.07 Moral agency
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those options. Three priorities a) Assessing what needed to be done within the organization (internal assessment) [ First get the right people and then lead the strategy ] 1. Schapiro recruited analysts and people who understood trading, market structure, corporate governance and a whole range of skill sets that would be important for the future. 2. She recruited people from Wall Street to restructure the SEC’s largest division – enforcement and examination - “to make this regulator
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by merger in 1985. • By early 2001, Enron had morphed into the 7th largest U.S. company, and the largest U.S. buyer/seller of natural gas and electricity. • Enron was heavily involved in energy brokering, electronic energy trading, global commodity and options trading, etc. Brief Time-Line of the Enron Scandal…Continued • On October 16, 2001, in the first major public sign of trouble, Enron announces a huge third-quarter loss of $618 million. • On October 22, 2001, the Securities and
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light of the fact that role of any large shareholder in corporate governance is to the extent which outsiders block holders can mitigate agency costs arising from insider control. So in case of APL it would be of interest to measure the extent of control exerted by particularly institutional investors relative to that exercised by insiders. As FIIs, insurance companies hold a major chunk of institutional investors and also as constituents of this group of investors are considered to have similar interests
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Complete the case studies for this week. Review the case studies below in the textbook. Prepare a one-page report for each of the following case studies: * Case Study: Martha Stewart’s Lost Reputation, pg. 34 * Case Study: Texaco: The Ecuador Issue, pg. 41 * Case Study: Where Were the Accountants?, pg. 44 Ethics Case: Martha Stewart’s Lost Reputation In June 2002, Martha Stewart began to wrestle with allegations that she had improperly used inside information to sell a stock investment
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2.0. 1.0 INTRODUCTION 3.1. 1.1 INTRODUCTION OF THE CASE This case is about the impact of an environmental factor (External issue) on dividend policy of the firm (Internal issue). The environmental disaster was Hurricane Katrina which was caused the huge destruction across the south-eastern United States. Because of the storm, the stock market notably fell down. Since it is possible that the price of the shares once more increase even more than before in the near future, Ashley Swenson, chief
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* TCO A Contract – an agreement that is enforceable by a court of law or equity. Also, a contract is a promise or a set of promises for the breach of which the law gives a remedy or the performance of which the law in some ways recognizes a duty. Sources of contract law include the Common Law of Contracts (developed primarily by state courts) and the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) which is a comprehensive statutory scheme that includes laws that cover aspects of commercial transactions.
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Ten years after the energy and commodities firm Enron collapsed under the weight of a massive fraud, much has changed about how corporate America does business and much, unfortunately, has remained the same, with new frauds and excessive risk-taking exposed all too frequently. "We did learn some lessons and people were more careful, but greed creeps back in again," said Lawrence Weiss, professor of international accounting at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Before the bankruptcy
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