A CONTEMPORARY AUDITING REAL ISSUES AND CASES Seventh Edition Michael C. Knapp University of Oklahoma ; \ 1% SOUTH-WESTERN CENGAGE Learning- Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States CONTENTS SECTION 1 Comprehensive Cases 1 Case 1.1 Enron Corporation 3 Arthur Edward Andersen established a simple motto that he required his subordinates and clients to invoke: "Think straight, talk straight." For decades, that motto sewed Arthur Andersen
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Auditors and Regulatory Oversight Raquel Avila ACC 403 Auditing Professor Dawn Carter May 8, 2015 The purpose of most businesses is to provide a service or product, and to make a profit while doing so. Businesses have many stakeholders, such as investors, board of directors, and employees. Even customers can be stakeholders if they really enjoy a service or product that they get from that particular business and don’t want them to go out business. Unfortunately, the desire to make
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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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STUDY LIST & ESSAYS FOR THE FINAL Fall 2013 AICPA and PCAOB standards on computers can be used for the whole exam, keep time limits in mind Numbers in red are incomplete or need additional information. Some in red may not need additional information, but if additional information can be provided that will help with essays add it. 1. Code of Professional Conduct as it relates to the cases that we discussed -Rule 101 Independence-A member in public practice shall be independent in
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Licensed to: iChapters User Licensed to: iChapters User CONTEMPORARY AUDITING REAL ISSUES & CASES MICHAEL C. KNAPP SEVENTH EDITION MAKE IT YOURS! SELECT JUST THE CASES YOU NEED Through Cengage Learning’s Make It Yours, you can — simply, quickly, and affordably — create a quality auditing text that is tailored to your course. • Pick your coverage and only pay for the cases you use. • Add cases from a prior edition of Knapp’s Contemporary Auditing. • Add your course materials
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Chapter 2 THE AUDIT MARKET Revision: 11 September 2012 2.1 Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1. Distinguish between different theories of audit services including agency theory. 2. Understand drivers for audit regulation. 3. Understand the role of public oversight. 4. Distinguish between different audit firms. 5. Identify some current developments in the audit market. 6. Portray the series of industry codes of conduct and guidance 2.2 Introduction
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ALBERT MAINGI MUSYOKA D61/63378/2010 DAC: 606 ADVANCED ACCOUNTING SEMINAR A TERM PAPER PRESENTED FOR THE PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI JANUARY – APRIL 2012 Contents SUMMARY OF TERMS 3 ABSTRACT 4 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 5 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 a. Introduction 6 b. The Need for an Audit 7 c. Risk of fraud 8 d. The Auditor-Investor ''Expectation Gap'' 9 e. Auditing Profession and Challenges 9 f. Public opinion 10 g. Family or
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Nature of Law Sources of law: 1. Statute law laws crated by State and Federal Parliament 2. Common law courts and judiciary system 3. Equity expands remedies beyond monetary compensation Classification of law: * International v domestic * Public v private * Substantive (rights and duties under the law) v procedural (rules of evidence and conduct) * Common (parliament and courts) v civil (legal code) * Civil actions v criminal actions Origins of Australian Law:
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accounting fraud and auditor legal liability c a S eS inc lu de d in t hiS Se ction 4 89 99 4.1 Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP Analyzing the Fall of Two Giants . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Comptronix Corporation 4.3 Cendant Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Identifying Inherent Risk and Control Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 119 127 137 Assessing the Control Environment and Evaluating Risk of Financial Statement
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Chapter Four Professional Accounting in the Public Interest, Post-Enron Purpose of the Chapter When the Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom debacles triggered the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a new era of stakeholder expectations was crystallized for the business world and particularly for the professional accountants that serve in it. The drift away from the professional accountant’s role as a fiduciary to that of a businessperson was called into question and reversed. The principles
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