CASE PREPARATION CHART Student Name | Ahmed Abdel rahman Mustafa Salim | Student ID | 1091105622 | Submission date | 31st March 2014 (Before 12:30pm) | Case title | A Delima | Section | Case 1 | ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ASSESSMENT To be filled by facilitator Components | Scores | Scores | | 1 mark | 2 marks | 3 marks | 4 marks | | Completeness of case chart | Case chart is incomplete | Some of the case chart
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Androids Under Attack Ali Shah Hashim been properly accou m 1997. Nonetheles conclusions, there w mounting. In a series had to be reflected ir David Lawrence, 43 years of age, joined the auditing firm ofAndroids 20 years ago and earned a salary of USD 700,000 per annum. He was the Androids' partner in charge of auditing Enronaa's accounts since 1987 his job was to check Effonaa's accounts and to make sure that they fairly represent the state of the business. Androids had been Enronaa's
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Expanded audit report Empirical studies have been conducted in the US, the UK and Australia to examine whether using an expanded audit report is effective in reducing an audit expectation gap. A survey conducted by Nair and Rittenberg (1987) in the USA revealed that an expanded audit report changes the users’ perceptions with regard to the responsibilities of the auditors. Likewise, Gay and Schelluch (1993) found that audit reports based on the revised Statement of Auditing AUP3 (i.e
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Case 2-39 a. The Caribbean country has strict laws forbidding the transfer of funds out of the country. The funds being smuggled out of the country can result in fines or the loss of Ultro, Ltd. Assets. This could be a big loss for Ultro as well as Enormo Corporation. The known fraud could result in the seizing of the entire company. The improper transfer of funds could also cause scrutiny of Enormo’s books to find out if there are other instances of fraud. b. The CPA firm took the first step
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Health Management, Inc. was a pharmaceutical sales company who faced many problems after their fiscal year ending on April 30, 1995. They had issues surrounding a in transit inventory problem that totaled up to $1.8 million. Involved in the problem was an independence problem with their auditors. Professional accounting standards do not specifically state what is considered “friends”. This issue is highly controversial because there is not a defining point to where the independence issue is clearly
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is mainly related to the auditors. We have to know that risk is always there in doing anything. There is a risk that the auditors missed out the misstatement or fail to detect frauds when performing their auditing job, hence issuing an unqualified report which doesn’t reflect the fair view on the company’s financial condition. Audit risk might lead to business failure but the auditors should not be blamed for the business failure unless he or she is proven wrong. Business failure is always a concern
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SPEs balance sheets with their everyday operations. This, in turn, allowed companies to move liabilities off balance sheet without having to make too many disclosures. The lack of directive by the SEC and FASB made it acceptable for companies to report inflated gains on various misleading transactions. * Next, the audit firms that deviated from their fiduciary duty to their clients and the public contributed greatly to the crisis in the accounting profession. There is an inherent conflict
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fundamental questions to the profession about relevance and trust. So why change the auditor’s report now? What we learned from research is a positive message: the auditor’s opinion is valued, and users want to hear more from the auditor – more pertinent, and more tailored, information about the specific audit performed on an entity’s financial statements. There is symbolic value in the current report, but little communicative value – and users see the potential for the auditor to provide more value
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Midterm Examination ADM 3349 Auditing Theory Fall 2011 Time: 2 hours Student Name: _________________________________ Student #: _____________________________________ Section: A (Prof Liboiron) ____ B (Prof Church) ____ Make sure that you read the instructions on page 2 of this exam. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 TOTAL /8 /7 /4 /6 /8 /7 /10 /50 1 Instructions: Answer all questions in this booklet. Booklet is not to be removed from the examination room. You may separate the pages but ensure that
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6 October 2013 Audit Case 4.3 1a. The auditor’s responsibility should have been to show the misstatements that CUC had since 1995. Deloitte and Touche, LLP should have reviewed past audits with Ernst and Young, CUC’s prior auditors. b. One category of fraud that affected the financial reporting was the independence with CUC. They hire a few employees who worked for Ernst and Young in the past. This is an independence problem. The other fraud category would be the false coding of services sold
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