Am hereby addressing you regarding the inclusion of the lawsuit in the year’s financial statement of the Gadget Inc. The pending litigation can be a significant potential liability to the company. The lack of disclosure of such liabilities has cause misunderstanding between the auditors, company CEOs, and the users of the financial statements. Auditors are supposed to access the suitability of the financial statement disclosures regarding the pending litigations. However, this is one of difficult tasks as the auditor’s efforts to do so depends upon receiving the information from company’s attorneys. The auditor therefore should seek the information from the company’s attorney before disclosing pending litigation as a liability in the company’ financial statement.
Obtaining information about the inclusion of pending litigation in financial statement
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The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct stipulates that in any professional performance, a member should maintain integrity and objectivity, shall be free of the conflicts of interest and shall not knowingly facts or subordinate his or her judgment to others (AICPA, 2014, ET Section 1.100.001.01).This prompts the CPAs to express their opinions about the reliability and integrity of company’s financial statement based upon their scrutiny and analysis of firm’s books and records. Therefore, Emiliano is allowed by capa code of conduct to voice her opinion in the matter regarding pending litigation being included in the financial statement of the company. To form their opinions concerning fairness to company’s financial condition, their judgment should consider the circumstances surrounding the company. This directs them to liaise with the relevant involved patties which includes the company’s attorney and the Managing committee of such
M international (M) and W Inc (W) decided to enter a long term litigation, due to a patent rights violation. M being the demandant and W the respondent. Not enough information was provided in relation to the charges or the patent.
The company has been engaged in a dispute over a long-standing litigation with W Inc. The dispute involves a specific patent infringement matter. In May 2007, W Inc. filed a claim against the company for patent infringement and management determined that a loss was probable and estimated it would be between $15 million and $20 million, with $17 million being the most likely amount of loss within the estimated range (December 31, 2007). In September 2009, a jury trial took place for the litigation involving the company and W Inc. A verdict for the trial was reached; a judgment was ordered that
Based on this information, only an immaterial amount of companies actually accrue a liability in their financial statement. Therefore, M Corporation will simply provide disclosure of the contingency and an estimate of the possible loss or range of loss for the future pending litigation in its 2007 financial statement under Note: Contingencies and Commitments. If M Corporation accrued a liability on its 2007 financial statements, then the company becomes too transparent to opposing counsel and it could have serious adverse effects on M’s operations.
FUTRONICS Inc. is a private company located in Lexington mainly categorized for modems, monitors, disk drives and terminals. It is moreover in to sales and services. This case is about the replacement of Futronics’s central office stores by an outside service provider. In this case supply management manager have an opportunity for investigating selected outsourcing in-house services.
M International and W Inc. have been engaged in long-standing litigation over a specific patent infringement matter. Pertains to the accounting for this contingency loss, this memo has made the following conclusions:
You are the Safety Director at XYZ Widget Company in Anytown, USA. Your new boss has asked you to develop a 1 hour presentation “hitting the highlights” regarding OSHA inspections and violations. Please provide an OUTLINE and EXPLANATION of your presentation.
In the iGaming industry, there is a great advantage available for gaming software developers that have its roots in the land-based casino industry. They have had the opportunity to learn directly what players respond to and figure out how to meet player expectations by putting amazing content on the Internet. This is a process that Batty Technologies has perfected over the past few years.
Outsourcing production of Fibertech’s company needs to be delicately decided due to the potential resentment engendered in the United Kingdom’s workers and customers. Even though most companies that outsource their production due to production costs being cut, that still does not always lead them into the clear due to the many other risks that are still at hand. For this business, in particular, I would advise FiberTech to expand the company’s productions processes outside of the United Kingdom.
Confidentiality – This calls upon any professional accountant to ensure that they do not disclose the accounting information of one company to any unauthorized parties. Such information should only be disclosed if the professional or legal right is granted by the relevant authority. Information obtained from a company should therefore not be used for any personal benefit by a professional accountant (Nobes, 2015).
There are several areas CoolBurst must focus on to encourage creativity and innovation which will propel the company forward including company structure, features, policies, practices, reward systems, culture, and management style. While Luisa cannot focus on all of these areas simultaneously, her campaign for change should start with making changes to the corporate culture and CoolBurst management. These two areas build the foundation for change within the company and will help move CoolBurst towards increased innovation and future company success.
When making a choice between specialized and broad task assignments, Bagby will be faced with trade-offs. The advantages to Bagby choosing specialized task assignments are exploiting comparative advantage and lower cross-training expenses. Under exploiting comparative advantage “specialized task assignment allows the firm to match people with jobs based on skills and training and correspondingly has employees concentrate on their particular specialties” (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2009, p. 395). Being that the employees will be highly specialized it would be expected that these employees would require less supervisor and less training to perform their tasks. Additionally, it is assumed that they would also yield a higher output.
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct principles prevents vises such as fraud that are experienced in accountancy field. Audit is the best measure of the effect of the fraud that are imposed to investors by accountants. The relationship of the investors and account holders are supposed to be affirmed through auditing to ensure accounting principles are upheld(Weirich, Pearson, & Churyk, 2010). Improper loss of the funds through propagation of the accountant officer should be treated as fraud and criminal activity that should lead to prosecution. Therefore, the paper seeks to relate two fraud cases that have been audited and presenting AICPA Code of
We can then look at synergies between some of the features and if they can be combined.
witnesses also are included in the case. The primary issue in this case (drawn from actual
This case is about implementation of a new “shared vision” concept within The Analog Division of Motorola Company. In 1993 Analog division was a major manufacturer of analog products in the world and had its divisions in many different countries. In other words the division had strong global presence. In order to create more efficient global company, Alison and John have decided to develop new shared vision within The Analog Division where managers would be involved directly and indirectly in the decision making process. Before the new vision development, Analog Division and its managers was very limited in decision making. Because they had such a strong global presence their