Assurance on sustainability reports: An International Comparison (1) Archival study ! global compustat I. Abstract Identify the factors associated with: Decision to voluntary purchase assurance The choice of the assurance provider A company needs to enhance credibility through assurance and choice of assurance provider will be a function of company, industry and country related factors. Findings: Companies seeking to enhance the credibility of their reports and build their corporate reputation are
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ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION Vol. 26, No. 3 2011 pp. 547–568 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/iace-50004 Koss Corporation Case: Trouble in Brew City Brian Daugherty and Daniel G. Neely ABSTRACT: This instructional case provides auditing students an opportunity to examine an interesting real-life embezzlement and financial statement fraud occurring at a publicly traded company in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) era. The case focuses on independent auditors’ and senior management’s
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kind permission of the Financial Reporting Council (UK). All rights reserved. For further information please visit www.frc.org.uk or telephone +44 (0)20 7492 2300. © Portions of this publication have been adapted and reproduced from a KPMG Flash Report: How Concerned Should Directors be with Going Concern? (February 2009) with the kind permission of KPMG. All rights reserved. Typeset by Endnote design Printed by Ligare Pty Ltd National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Going
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ZZZZ Best Company, Inc. Shiqi Hu, Lin Ding, Trang Mai, Yi Wang ACCT3309 Audit, O’Hara 11/03/2014 Background Barry Minkow, who is a young entrepreneur with history of credit card fraud as a teenager, was convicted on 57 counts of securities fraud. He started ZZZZ Best Company in carpet cleaning business in 1982 when he was only 16 years old. ZZZZ Best Company was turned into insurance restoration business that Minkow recognized the benefits with his own “innovative” way to finance his business
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“Critically discussed if there are real reasons why institutional investors should be concerned about the independence and genuine effectiveness of the audit function? Search the findings of academic papers and other published sources to support your view.” Introduction An institutional investor is an organization that invests on behalf of the organization’s members. These investors are a part of corporate governance for companies and they have large amounts of money to invest. In Malaysia, there
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official certification from SEC at which time there were about 30 employees with this organization. PCAOB was established by Congress in order to protect investors and the public interest by promoting accurate, informative, and independent audit reports. The PCAOB aims to improve audit quality, reduce the risks of auditing failures in the U.S. public securities market and promote public trust in both the financial reporting process and auditing profession. (PCAOB, 2012). PCAOB necessitate senior
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Introduction (All the content of this study has been taken mainly from the Company Annual Reports and Reviews 2001-2006). The aim of this study is to look at the effect of changes occurring in the global and/or regional economic environment on the multinational operations of “Unilever” during the period 2001-2006. The global and regional environment is passing through tremendous changes since the start of the year 2000. Globalisation, deregulation, financial liberalisation, economic reforms, advances
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In this assignment im going to evaluate the approraiteness of two sets of business information used by BBC to make strategic decisions, and how it helps the bbc to make strategic decisions about how to improve their operations. Annual Report 2013/14 In the BBC website they have a page of informations about the income and operation cost of both of the years of 2013/14. This is suitable for people in the the company and outside the company. The advantages of using this information is that It helps
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Prepared by : Mohd Hafiz Bin Abdul Halim | Mohd Faizal Bin Jamaluddin | Rosnida Binti Othman |Nur Iliza Binti Misnan | Syaifulradzman Bin Shaifuddin | Asmidar Binti Ahmad@Salleh | Majdi@Abdul Hadi Bin Ishak | Hasmawazi Binti Hamzah | Azwira Binti Mahmud |Nur Azreen Azriana Binti Azham | PA 603 Auditing and Assurance PA 603AUDITING AND ASSURANCE CASE STUDY: Phase 2,3 & 4 PROBLEM BASED LEARNING PROCESS STAGES 1 PBL ACTION PROCESS Group Introduction students to PBL via experiential learning
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Accountants Professional Auditing Standards, Emphasis-of-Matter Paragraphs and Other-Matter Paragraphs in the Independent Auditor’s Report are discussed. This Standard comes from SAS No 122 and is effective for audits of financial statements ending on or before December 15, 2012. The scope of this section is to address additional communications in the auditor’s report when the auditor considers it necessary to draw the user’s attention to a matter that is: • Presented or disclosed in the financial
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