Ellie Enterprises - Deloitte Audit Case

SKS Manufacturing has recently hired Deloitte & Touche as they are in a critical cash position with various internal inefficiencies in their procurement and production processes. Deloitte & Touche and SKS Manufacturing will need to work together in order to solve the issues present at SKS Manufacturing so they can be successful within the automotive parts industry.

Waterhouse, Ernst & Young, as well as, McKinsey, BCG, Booz Allen and CSC Index. Industry-wide,

• In this case Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group was tasked to come in and consult with SKS Manufacturing, an auto supplier, in order to fix their inventory problems along with other issues the company was facing. Maria Chen would lead part of the team for her first time on this 12-week engagement, but would in occur some difficulties throughout the first 6 weeks of the project. The Deloitte team has a lot of work to do before the end of the engagement in order stabilize the company and prepare them for a more radical long term project that plans to “reengineer” their business process. Most of the responsibility for the slow start on the project is resting on Chen’s shoulders due to the choices she has made during the first half

This Fund is targeting the following annual return for Limited Partners; class A Shares will have a 5% per annum, plus a limited share of profits, on invested capital. Class B shares will have approximately 10% - 15% per annum. However, these anticipated returns (which is not a guarantee of performance) is based on good faith assumptions

The purpose of the report is to provide feedback to management and internal audit on the actions that have been implemented by Nedgroup Insurance Company “Nedgroup” to resolve the audit findings, which were reported by Sasria internal audit during November 2015.

An investment that is not one of the three traditional asset types such as stocks, bond and cash are considered as an alternative investment. “These types of investments include hedge funds, managed futures, real estate, commodities and derivative contracts.” (www.investopedia.com). These are subject to less regulation and use leverage and derivative instruments to optimize their returns. “In spite of many pensions and private endowments beginning to invest in these funds, the portion apportioned to them is still small usually less than 10%.” (www.investopedia.com). An alternative investment differs from publicly traded investments in three main ways:

Our team is employed by an investment bank and make financial analysis to our client which potential investment target company is “Myer Holdings Limited (MYR)”. In order to provide sensible advice to meet our client requirements our team conduct main business, horizon and vertical analysis, ratio analysis, forecast the share performance for the year of 2017 and 2018, and suggestion to our client.

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Prior to making her decision, we believe that integrity and compliance with the law were the ethical issues that Ann Marie must have faced. Integrity is the basic and most important value that is required for the role as an auditor. However, when Ann Marie signed and backdated the audit engagement she was dishonest with herself, the client, and the public. In addition, the purpose of the law is for every audit engagement to be reviewed in detail by a different person to provide quality information for investors and to protect the public interest. Ann Marie did not perform the detailed review, but signed on to the audit engagement in order to fulfill the requirement for the QC Inspection; this action leads her to violate the rule.

Unfortunately, this year also marks the third straight year we report on a hedge fund industry mired in underperformance. However, the woes facing the hedge fund industry are compounded this year, reaching beyond performance, creeping into fund raising and industry expansion. This year is witness to net negative asset flows and actual reductions in the number of hedge fund firms, as firm closures

Established in January 1999, Pine Street Capital (PSC) was a market-neutral hedge fund that specialized in the technology field, facing market risk and trying to decide whether and which way to use in order to hedge equity market risk. They choose technology sector because the partners of PSC felt that they have enough ability to evaluate this sector and specially be good at picking out-performing stock. Short-selling of NASDAQ and options hedging strategy are the two major hedging choices for PSC. Either strategy has its own advantages in different economic periods and conditions. The fund has just through one of the most volatile periods in NASDAQ 's history, and it was trying to decide whether it should continue its risk management

Over the past 10 weeks, I have worked at Deloitte & Touche, LLP as an Audit Intern. Overall the internship was an important learning experience and invaluable in my professional development. I was able to gain real work experience in audit and network with many people at different stages in their careers. There were many Deloitte-sponsored intern events in addition to the regular daily work I performed on my three engagements.

It is a trust which helps investors to achieve their investment goals through the way of funds.

1. The fund deals with technology driven companies due to the expertise of its fund manager in that area; comfortable in prediction of individual stock

A trusted and well-established Asset Management Company managing over AUD$ 100m provides equity, fixed income and property fund investment opportunities in Australia and international markets with the collaboration of leading and reputed fund managers.