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Increased Corporate Governance and Auditor Independence

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Auditing Profession and Its Problems

rules laid down to create a separation and independence between the auditor and the company. The regulatory framework in the Unite...

Marketing Audit and New Product Marketing

we consider McDonalds there is a corporate strategy where the brand is important. The products are all designed to be easy to prep...

Internal Audit and ISO 9000

quality because with such an auditing system, the company will monitor all its functions on a continual basis (Barnes, 1998). The...

Issues Pertaining to SAS 85

/ Single-audit quality concerns by AICPA NEWS: Explains the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public...

Fraud and the Ethics of Internal Auditing

when it comes to the corporate world. Not to follow this path would reap severe consequences upon the business that ignored the i...

A Corporate Productivity Audit Analysis

eight sections of the audit were addressed in the productivity audit with the following findings: Policy: The depiction of the co...

Corporate America and Manipulation of Revenue

evident that much fraud can be discovered before it is too late. While this was not true in the case of Enron, the evidence has s...

Detecting Fraud and an Internal Auditor's Role

business takes great pains to hire reliable individuals in important financial roles, what can be done to make sure that fraud doe...

An Audit of a Meat Department

well as product safety in terms of handling. Productivity involves workers activities of course, but also whatever initiatives th...

Coca Cola's Marketing Audit

of 2005 (US: Coke lowers earnings and sales expectations, 2004). All of Coca-Colas "numbers" - current ratio, earnings per share,...

A Forecast of Project Management Trends

be traced back to something akin to a lack of understanding regarding the process (2005). An audit team helps to correct such pro...

Moral Decisions, Tax Shelters, and Sprint

about tax shelters offered by E&Y to Spring executives (Verrault et al, 2004). Earlier that year, the Wall Street Journal, among o...

AUDIT COMMITTEES, DUE DILIGENCE AND DUE CARE

enough overview and study of a situation to ensure its operating correctly. Due diligence is typically conducted before a major pu...

Accounting Standards and External Auditing

businesses subtract the fair value of those stock options from revenue, considering them as proper expenses, others are content to...

The Bankruptcy of Enron and Auditing

between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...

Auditing Inventory and Accounts Payable

The writer discusses the potential ways that auditor may prepare and undertake auditing procedures for a supermarket. The approach...

Revenue in Ottawa City Accounts 2005 - 2009

originating. We have a net tax revenue on the revenue statement of 1,286,044, however the taxation received is actually greater th...

IT Auditing and Internal Controls: Personal Experiences

it is secure, and companies that fail to secure vital information are at risk for a data breach. Studies show that data breaches a...

HEWLETT-PACKARD: AN AUDIT

There are also software products that include enterprise IT management, information management, business intelligence and communic...

Auditor Ethics in the Case of ZZZZ Best

auditor can avoid temptations and the possibility of litigation. In the case of Ernst and Whinney, it is said that ZZZZ Best repre...

Financial Questions - the Four Accounting Statements and Use of Accounting Information

company in terms of the level of equity belonging to the shareholders (Elliott and Elliott, 2008). The statement of retained ear...

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS -- ANALYSIS

plan then does a formal communications program. Finally, a communications assessment isnt just a one-time scenario. Rather...

MEMO FOR SAS 112 - TO AUDITORS

take responsibility for their own mistakes and potential misstatements. Its understood here that not every company is an Enron or ...

Are Marketing Plans and Audits Really Needed?

it is undertaken and its importance in a changing environment that is to be assessed. 2. Marketing The aim of marketing ad the ...

Human Resource Management Aspects

as the time take to grill a burger and to dress a bun, as well as standards regarding quality. This is a simple example, but demon...

Testing Inventory and Cash Process in an Audit

a secure location, but observations may indicate this is not always the case. In addition to this observation, such as the scannin...

The Organizational Structure of the Accountancy Firm

is focused on those who have the knowledge as well as the ability to bring in and retain clients. Internally there is a rather com...

Audit Documentation Standards

& Fischbach, 2002). Another requirement is that the documentation must meet effectiveness tests (Wittington & Fischbach, 2002). Al...