CAUGHT IN A DILEMMA There are valuable lessons in this case. First, sometimes it is easy to know but hard to do the “right thing.” Decisions in the business world are not always black and white. As a CPA, Davenport knew what ethical course to take and took it. The audit committee chairman and the CEO considered what was in the best interests of the company and made their choice, opting to let Murphy off the hook. Only time will tell whether they made the right decision: Will Murphy mend his ways
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S T N C O N T E Notice of Annual General Meeting 2 Statement Accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting 3 Corporate Information 4 Profile of the Board of Directors 5 Audit Committee Report 7 Statement of Corporate Governance 11 Statement on Risk Management and Internal Control 15 Directors’ Responsibility Statement and Other Information 17 Chairman’s Statement 19 Directors’ Report 21 Consolidated Statements of Financial Position 25 Statements of Profit
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Access the PCAOB Website ( www.pcaob.org) and list two new or proposed auditing standards issued by the PCAOB. Auditing Standard no .18: Related Parties The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standard on auditing transactions with related parties and amendments to PCAOB standards on significant unusual transactions and a company’s transactions and financial relationships with its executive officers. The standard includes new
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Auditing Chapters 6 & 7 Exam J. Martin, Instructor Auditing Chapters 6 & 7 Exam J. Martin, Instructor Student Name____Cory Anderson_________________________________________________________ 1 C | 16 A | 31 D | 46 True | 2 B | 17 A | 32 D | 47 False | 3 B | 18 B | 33 A | 48 False | 4 C | 19 C | 34 B | 49 True | 5B | 20 D | 35 D | 50 False | 6 A | 21 D | 36 C | | 7 A | 22 A | 37 B | | 8 D | 23 D | 38 A | | 9 D | 24 B | 39 C | | 10 B | 25 D | 40 C | | 11 D
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Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………..1-2 Issues………………………………………………………………………………………………2 The Discovery of Fraud……………………………………………………………………..…..3-4 Corporate Governance of FCB……………………………………………………………………5 Auditor Dilemma……………………………………………………………………….……….5-7 Using the Fraud Triangle Model to analyze the situation in Flat Cargo Berhad……………..…8-9 Who is responsible in the fraud of Flat Cargo Berhad ……………………………………..…10-11 Prevention Measures for Fraud ………………………………………………………………
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and Financial Statement Auditing True / False Questions 1. | Independence standards are required for audits of public companies, but not for audits of private companies. True False | 2. | Decision makers demand reliable information that is provided by accountants. True False | 3. | Information asymmetry seldom occurs. True False | 4. | Conflicts of interest often occur between absentee owners and managers. True False | 5. | Auditing services and attestation
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Running Head: Audit Report Section 404 Week 4: Team Assignment Withley E., Kacie Wooding, Audie McRae, Dena Brown ACC/546 Professor: HILLARY EDMONDSON July 20, 2015 Anderson, Olds, and Watershed United States of America July 20, 2015 Mr. Larry Lancaster Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO Apollo Shoes, Inc. 100 Shoe Plaza Shoetown, ME 00001 Dear Mr. Lancaster, You have requested that we perform a SOX Section 404 consulting engagement. We are pleased to confirm
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GM: Running On Empty? 1. The sign of GM’s impending financial distress is first seen in 2005. GM reported a net loss of more than $10 billion and has continued to post annual losses since that time with losses reaching almost $31 billion in 2008. GM's cash flow from operations in 2005 was a negative $16.8 billion. Reviewing GM’s stock price, we can see that the stock price also decreased dramatically started in 2004 to 2008. In 2005, GM’s stock traded around $19 per share and reached the lowest
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Audit, Attestation, and Assurance Services ACC491 Kimberly Johnson December 14, 2015 Audits, assurance services, and attest services are all work that could be performed by an auditor. Each category offers a range of services that could be beneficial to many companies, and all help in regulating a company’s financial documents. Audit Services There are 3 different types of audits, financial statement audit, compliance audit, and operational audit. A financial statement audit involves obtaining
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Introduction to Auditing SOLUTIONS FOR REVIEW CHECKPOINTS 1-1 Auditors add credibility to financial information provided by the accountable party such as management (i.e. auditors make the financial or other information more likely to be true). Other common ways of characterizing this property of audited numbers is that the numbers are more accurate, have higher assurance, or are more reliable. These relate to different dimension of truthfulness, as we discuss later in the text. 1-2 Auditing is the
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