Auditing Introduction Letter Kelly Garner ACC/546 December 15‚ 2014 Mr. Michael De Marco Anderson‚ Olds‚ and Watershed Certified Public Accountants Shoetown‚ ME 00001 December 15‚ 2014 Mr. Eric Unum Vice President of Finance Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. 100 Shoe Plaza Shoetown‚ ME 00001 Dear Mr. Unum‚ Thank you for taking the time to meet with Arnold Anderson‚ CPA (lead auditor); Darlene Wardlaw‚ CPA (engagement manager) and me last week. During our meeting‚ you and your team informed us that your “old
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ACC621 Midterm review Internal auditing is an independent objective assurance and consulting acitivity designed to add value and improve an organizations operations. Adding value is provided by improving opportunities to achieve organizational objectives identifying operational improvement reducing risk through exposure through both assurance and consulting. Auditing has its key components - accomplish objectives -evaluate and improve effectiveness of risk management -assurance and consulting
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Theresa Golding BA 418 – Auditing Dr. Charles Pineno April 25‚ 2010 PART 1: “Small Firms May Face Audit Music” (published in The Wall Street Journal on April 19‚ 2007) addresses the ending of the delay in applying portions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to smaller companies. At the time of the article‚ some 6‚000 smaller public companies had yet to be required to “make an annual assessment of their internal financial-reporting controls with further review by the company’s outside auditor of
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Chapter 1—Auditing and Internal Control TRUE/FALSE 1. Corporate management (including the CEO) must certify monthly and annually their organization’s internal controls over financial reporting. ANS: F PTS: 1 2. Both the SEC and the PCAOB require management to use the COBIT framework for assessing internal control adequacy. ANS: F PTS: 1 3. Both the SEC and the PCAOB require management to use the COSO framework for assessing internal control adequacy. ANS: F PTS: 1 4. A qualified opinion
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Solutions Manual to accompany Auditing: a practical approach by Jane Hamilton CHAPTER 1 Introduction and overview of auditing [pic] John Wiley & Sons Australia‚ Ltd 2010 Chapter 1 – Introduction and overview of auditing 1. What does ‘assurance’ mean in the financial reporting context? Who are the three parties relevant to an assurance engagement? An assurance engagement (or service) is defined as ‘an engagement in which an assurance
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CHAPTER 1 Auditing and Assurance Services LEARNING OBJECTIVES | | |Exercises and | | | |Problems | | |Review Checkpoints | | |
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balances are appropriately disclosed. Therefore of the 5 assertions and audit objectives listed above the 3 assertions applicable to direct test of cash balances are Existence‚ Completeness and Valuation. b) List 4 audit procedures to use in auditing cash. (4 marks) SOLUTION: Because of the large volume of transactions and the small account balance‚ the audit strategy is invariably to concentrate on verifying the account balance rather than the transactions. Moreover‚ because of the significance
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A BUSINESS RISK APPROACH Auditing 6e Larry E. Rittenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison Bradley J. Schwieger St. Cloud State University Karla M. Johnstone University of Wisconsin–Madison Australia • Brazil • Canada • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Auditing: A Business Risk Approach‚ 6e Larry E. Rittenberg‚ Bradley J. Schwieger‚ Karla M. Johnstone VP/Editorial Director: Jack W. Calhoun Publisher: Rob Dewey Acquisitions Editor: Matthew Filimonov
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actually quite simple. First‚ privity of contract. Privity of contract means that the contract only applys to the people involved with contract‚ thus making the bank an innocent third party. The second defense is that Yost followed the proper auditing standards when conducting an audit. This means that if Yost were to find nothing‚ they would not be responsible. c. She will most likely win due to negligence. The company is responsible for implementing internal controls‚ and the president’s
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materiality threshold for the engagement? 25. The Code of Professional Conduct derives its authority from the A) Securities and Exchange Commission. B) Bylaws of the American Institute of CPAs. C) Financial Accounting Standards Board. D) Auditing Standards Board. 26. The chief (internal) audit executive should have direct reporting access to the audit committee‚ and the committee should oversee the activities and budget of the internal audit function. A) True B) False 27. The AICPA Principles
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