Zac Johnson ACCT 7401 Individual Assignment 1 3/25/2015 Sarah Jones Case Frame the ethical issue The ethical issue in this case deals with Sarah Jones independence of conducting the audit of FNB because her parents are dependent on the dividends from their significant investment in the bank. Gather all the facts Sarah Jones serves as an auditor in charge at a reputable accounting firm Trout & Cod CPA firm. She supports her family financially while her husband is a stay-at-home dad
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A Day in the Life of Brent Dorsey A Staff Auditors’ Professional Pressures[1] Learning Objectives Understand some of the pressures faced by young professionals in the workplace Generate and evaluate alternative courses of action to resolve a difficult workplace issue Understand more fully the implications of "eating time" and "premature sign-off" More fully appreciate the need to balance professional and personal demands Brent Dorsey graduated eight months ago
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their reports and build their corporate reputation are more likely to have their sustainability reports assured, although it doesn’t matter whether the assurance provider comes from the auditing profession. Companies domiciled in more stakeholder-oriented countries are more likely to choose a member of the auditing profession II. Introduction Purpose ! understand emerging assurance market and the role of assurance in establishing corporate credibility Why buy assurance? Increased stakeholder or user
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audits. This would cost us a total of $70,000 a year. A data collecting systems would cost us $30,000 that includes hiring a firm to collect and analyses our company’s data on a yearly basis. A third party audit would cost $40,000 a year to hire an auditing firm to appraise our company’s operations. Some of the cost of prevention would be mistake proofing, scheduled maintenance and implementing Six Sigma at our company. This would cost our company 2 million a year. Mistake proofing would only cost
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guidelines have been put in place to deter people from making unethical decisions. There are a specific set of rules that the SOX Act applies to how business people shall perform auditing financial records of a public company. After Enron is states ‘An auditor is prohibited from “contemporaneously” providing a public company auditing client with the following specific types of consulting or other non-audit services: * Bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements
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CASE STUDY PA503 FUNDAMENTALS OF AUDITING Audit Firm Contact Number JABATAN PERDAGANGAN Programme Section CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 Email Materiality and Audit Risk Corporate Governance PROBLEM SOLVING CLO2 | LD2/P3 Instruction: Please answer ALL questions. | Part 1 NEW CLIENT ACCEPTANCE DECISION Learning Objectives After completing and discussing this case, you should be able to: 1. Understand the types of information relevant to evaluating a prospective audit client
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au publications@companydirectors.com.au Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) Level 7 600 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Telephone: (+61 3) 8080 7400 Facsimile: (+61 3) 8080 7450 enquiries@auasb.gov.au www.auasb.gov.au © Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) © Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) © Financial Reporting Council (UK) 2009. Portions of this publication have been adapted and reproduced from an Auditing Practices Board Bulletin: Going Concern
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have used confirmations in auditing CBI’s year-end accounts payable? Defend your answer. Briefly explain the differing audit objectives related to accounts receivable and accounts payable confirmation procedures and the key differences in how these procedures are applied. Yes because confirmation is used as step to be performed in searching for unrecorded liabilities. It is used to gather evidence from the third parties. Also it is the generally accepted auditing standard Such as accounts receivable
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Phoenix Team B Formal Communications To: Accountants From: Team B Subject: Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 112 and 115 Notification Changes have been made regarding the rules that must be followed by auditors. The purpose of this memo is to provide an outline of the changes and explanation on how the changes will impact our valued clients. As accountants, understanding the Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 112 and the superseding SAS No. 115 is extremely important as they may affect
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professional skepticism should be present when reviewing cash or any other part of an audit, whether routine or not. (Hinton, Lecture Notes) 2. It is very important when an auditor develops an audit program to include thorough procedures for auditing cash balances, as it has a direct effect on an organization's profits. The auditor must perform audit procedures of the internal controls of the company to detect any shortcomings. In addition, the auditor will perform substantive tests of details
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