Memo To: Manager From: CC: Date: Re: Professional Responsibilities of a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and the differences between an audit and a review “Accountants, as professionals, are expected to maintain a level of ethical conduct that goes beyond society’s laws” (Schroeder, Clark & Cathey, 2005, p. 563). Therefore, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)
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three reportable segments, including Integrated Network Solutions, Mobility Solutions and Lucent Worldwide Services and all three of these segments have suffered from the 2001 decline in the telecommunications market. According to the consolidated balance sheets, Lucent Technologies suffered a decline in their cash and receivables between the years 2003-2004, but overall their total assets showed a profit at the end of September 2004 and their current assets are almost half of their total assets.
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Garret Car Rentals Audit Report Objective Our objective is to perform an efficient and informative audit of Garrett Car Rentals, and identify areas of weak control that need to be improved. Recommendations * Use the COSO audit approach: * The condition is that there has been a tremendous increase in vehicle count, maintenance and repairs have increased in the past three years, and that inventory and inspections have increased additionally in the Wilsonville factory, while all other
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Case 2 [1] A. Financial information is prepared for multiple users for different purposes and thus not all elements of the financial statements are equally relevant to all users. B. Materiality is a relative rather than an absolute concept. The materiality threshold that will influence users of the financial statements will vary depending on the context in which the entity operates. C. Auditors must design the audit to find the smallest misstatement that would influence users of the
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Accounting Concepts MODULE - 1 Basic Accounting 2 ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS In the previous lesson, you have studied the meaning and nature of business transactions and objectives of financial accounting. In order to maintain uniformity and consistency in preparing and maintaining books of accounts, certain rules or principles have been evolved. These rules/principles are classified as concepts and conventions. These are foundations of preparing and maintaining accounting records. In this lesson
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Form Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service A Principal business activity B Principal product or service 1065 U.S. Return of Partnership Income For calendar year 2011, or tax year beginning ▶ OMB No. 1545-0099 , 20 . , 2011, ending See separate instructions. 2011 35-4545454 01-15-2008 Name of partnership D Employer identification number ZLW GP C Business code number Print or type. Number, street, and room or suite no. If a P.O. box, see the instructions
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210 Balance Sheet 10 Overall S99 SEC Materials General • 6. Inventories. o (a) State separately in the balance sheet or in a note thereto, if practicable, the amounts of major classes of inventory such as: (1) Finished goods; (2) inventoried costs relating to long-term contracts or programs (see (d) below and § 210.4–05); (3) work in process (see § 210.4–05); (4) raw materials; and (5) supplies. o If the method of calculating a LIFO inventory
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Scientific essay International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium Size Entities: IFRS FOR SMEs 1- Introduction Now days the word has become one global market where there is no border for business to operate. To help facilitate that globalization, businesses have to present their financial statement on the same basis as its foreign competitors, making comparisons easier. That why the use of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which is a
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We are comparing Wal-Mart’s’ ratios with, Target’s and Kmart (Sears Holding Corp). They are Wal-Mart’s’ main competitors and the only ones that Wal-Mart’ competes in all divisions. We calculated the ratios for Wal-Mart’s’ and its competitors for each year from 2009 to 2011. Wal-Mart has a higher current ratio than Target and Sears. Wal-Mart has a current ratio of 3.1, which means that Wal-Mart must be able to convert each dollar of current assets into at least 0.5 dollars (1/3.21) of cash to meet
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Tootsie Hersheys Earnings per share As given in the income statement $0.95 Basic Common $1.97 Interpretation and Comparison between the two companies' ratios (Reading the Appendix of Chapter 13 will help you prepare the commentary) Current ratio Current assets $0 = #DIV/0! $1,385,434 = 1.52 Current liabilities $910,628 Gross Profit Ratio Gross profit $176,947 = 35.7% $2,053,137 =
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