should include strong internal controls to make sure financial statements and data are accurate and valid. Strong internal controls can prevent a company from providing false data to make their company look more profitable and steal funds from the investors and stockholders. There are several internal control weaknesses that existed at MCI that contributed to the commission of the fraud acts. One major internal control weakness was that Pavlo was able to manipulate the accounts receivable system and
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Accounting in the Bible Abstract: This paper traces several accounting concepts in the Bible. In particular, the Bible discusses the objectives of accounting, internal control procedures and managerial accounting topics. This paper links the Bible to current accounting thought. The beginnings of modern accounting are commonly traced to Pacioli in the 15th century. Actually many of the fundamental ideas that underlie modern accounting may be traced much further back. The Bible, which is generally
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Smackey Dog Food Company Smackey Dog Foods, Inc is a privately held corporation specializing in natural dog food, both regular and gourmet brands. Smackey Dog is not publicly traded which is evident because they are not following many of the standards that are required through Sarbanes Oxley. Since this is a privately run corporation, they are not required to adhere to the SEC regulations, but adherence to these regulations would actually help Smackey Dog to be more efficiently run and would
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Controls for Outflows Learning Team A ACC/544 June 29, 2015 La Ron Roach Controls for Outflows Misstated expenses and costs have been listed as common reasons for financial statement restatements according to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office (Louwers et al, 2007). The improper recording of costs and expenses are due to errors as well as fraud. To prevent errors and fraud, proper controls for outflows should be performed. This proposal seeks to provide recommendations
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Internal Controls for Inflows Rosa Alvarez, Quenana Kent, Renee Witucki, Steven Mitchell, K’Dawn Saucedo ACC/544 October 15, 2012 Robert Cornett Internal Controls for Inflows Team C Consulting Firm Inc. was hired to review ABC Manufacturing Company’s policies and procedures. Team C Consulting Firm Inc. reviewed several areas of the business such as, cash, sales, accounts receivable, inventory, and production policies and procedures. Based on Team C Consulting Firm’s review and findings, ABC
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Controls for Outflows Accounting 544 / Internal Control Systems Department of Accounting February 16, 2015 Organizations are always fighting to prevent fraud from happening in their day-to-day operations. Fraud can occur almost anywhere within an organization, but it is common in areas of the expenditure cycle because of inadequate recording of transactions or the uncertainty of when to record transactions. When actions such as these occur, the organizations financial statements are understated
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Apollo Shoes, Inc. Langley, ME Dr Mr. Elliot, We have developed test o controls of substantive test of transactions, and analytical procedures for the audit of Apollo Shoes Inc.’s sales and collection cycle, payroll and personnel cycle, acquisition and payment cycle, and Inventory and Warehousing cycle in line with the generally
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the internal control Assertion Sale Processing Flowchart: Weakness A. The office was uninformed about the credit approval - Valuation B. Missing customer information and product validation - Valuation C. Invoices were mailed before shipping the goods - Existence And does not matched with bill of lading D. Bill of ladings are not pre numbered - Completeness Strength Good internal control for receivables aging analysis and Follow up of delinquent accounts. Cash
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Worksheet for You Decide Name Course Code 555-10195_ Grade ___/ Date 10/20/2013 Questions: Q1: Discuss how the SEC has influence (if any) over the audit of Smackey Dog Foods, Inc. Solution: The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) has substantial influence on the audit of Smackey Dog Food, Inc. This can be seen in the audit standards that have to be followed by the established independence of the auditors involved in the Smackey audit. In the audit of public listed companies
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used to collect qualitative as well as quantitative information for decision making within organizations 4. Decision support systems - help the developers of an AIS identify what information they need for their planning, decision making, and control functions * How is a flowchart used? 5. A document flowchart traces the physical flow of documents through an organization—that is, the flow of documents from the departments, groups, or individuals who first created them to their final
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