ACCT310 Auditing Individual Assignment 1: The Peninsula Limited: Analysis of a Potential Audit Client Jimmy Chung is the president of the Peninsula Company, a retailer and distributor of consumer electronics based in Hong Kong. Although Lam & Company, the audit firm had previously audited Peninsula, Jimmy has recently become aware of the CPA firm of Zhou & Company from his friend. His interest in the firm was heightened when he discovered that Zhou & Company audited the primary
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accounting policies and other explanatory information. Objective, scope and limitations Our statutory function as auditor of Bank of America is to report to the shareholders by expressing an opinion on Bank of America annual financial statements. We will conduct the audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards and will issue an audit report. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
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GUIDELINES ON CONCURRENT AUDIT 1. Preamble: Concurrent Audit is an examination, which is contemporaneous with the occurrence of transactions or is carried out as near thereto as possible. It attempts to shorten the interval between a transaction and its examination by an independent person. This audit is essentially a management process ensuring sound internal accounting functions and effective controls and setting the tone for a vigilant internal audit to preclude the incidence of serious errors
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AUDIT PRACTICE & ASSURANCE SERVICES PROFESSIONAL 2 EXAMINATION - APRIL 2010 NOTES: SECTION A: Answer Question 1, and SECTION B: Answer any two from Questions 2, 3 and 4. (If you provide answers to more questions than required in Section B, you must draw a clearly distinguishable line through the answer not to be marked. Otherwise, only the first two questions to hand will be marked.) Time Allowed 3.5 hours, plus 20 minutes to read the paper. Examination Format This is an open book
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The Writing Center Book Reviews Like 17 people like this. What this handout is about This handout will help you write a book review, a report or essay that offers a critical perspective on a text. It offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews. What is a review? A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. Reviews can consider books, articles, entire genres or fields of literature, architecture, art, fashion, restaurants
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the auditor to not qualify the Financial Statements. The auditor was not agreeing with the Encik Zayed negotiation and he planned to terminate the auditor appointment. Encik Zayed also want to appoint new “friendly party” auditor to make the audit reports. Besides they do not familiar with audit, they also did not familiar with Accounting Standards and the provisions of the Companies Act 1965, including their roles as Company Directors. The company also have appointed Cik Amy to analyse and provide
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Table of content 1. Question a 2 2. Question b 5 3. Question c 6 4. Question d 9 5. Question e 10 6. Question f 11 7. Reference
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Identification of Potential questionable numbers Student’s Name Institution Course Tutor Date Identification of Potential questionable numbers The financial statements of an organization should present the accurate and true financial position of the organization. Information contained in financial statements should, therefore, be clear, reliable, self explanatory, and easy to understand. This will ensure that these financial statements are useful to the concerned stakeholders. In evaluating
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Introduction of the article From 2013, the global coal price has decreased significantly caused by the declining coal consumption and many researches indicate that the sharp decline in coal price is structural rather than cyclical which means, unlike what the government and the coal fraternity said, demand may not rebound. Under such circumstance, the Australian coal producer, Peabody Energy is under a huge financial distress risk. In four years, the equity market value of Peabody has fallen from
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categories. First is services required by legislation or contract to be undertaken by the auditors of the business. This is include regulatory returns, legal requirements to report on matters such as share issues for non-cash consideration, expenditure for grant application purposes and contractual requirements, for example to report to lenders or vendors on net assets. Other than that, services that it is most efficient for the auditors to provide because of their existing knowledge of the business,
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