GEN COMBO LOOSELEAF INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING; CONNECT ACCESS CARD
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Author: J. David Spiceland
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.8BYP
Ethics Case 1–8
The auditors’ responsibility
• LO1–4
It is the responsibility of management to apply accounting standards when communicating with investors and creditors through financial statements. Another group, auditors, serves as an independent intermediary to help ensure that management has in fact appropriately applied GAAP in preparing the company’s financial statements. Auditors examine (audit) financial statements to express a professional, independent opinion. The opinion reflects the auditors’ assessment of the statements’ fairness, which is determined by the extent to which they are prepared in compliance with GAAP.
Some feel that it is impossible for an auditor to give an independent opinion on a company’s financial statements because the auditors’ fees for performing the audit are paid by the company. In addition to the audit fee, quite often the auditor performs other services for the company such as preparing the company’s income tax returns.
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How might an auditor’s ethics be challenged while performing an audit?
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Q 3 How would an auditor go about assessing management integrity? Why management’s integrity is considered the most important factor affecting the client acceptance or continuation decision? Suppose you came across a situation in which you have to decide between losing your job as an auditor or write against the corrupt practices of Board of Directors in financial statements. What would you do?
Question 2: Theory Vs. Practice
This chapter generally describes the roles and responsibilities assumed by an organization’s internal and external auditors. In theory, internal auditors are responsible for assessing the extent to which financial data conform to the expectations and standards established by management, and external auditors render an independent opinion of the fairness of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. In practice, however, both internal and external auditors often provide services to an organization that go far beyond these limited descriptions. Use your own background and work experience to describe some of the services you’ve seen performed by internal and external auditors that go beyond the general roles described above.
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Finding fraud is one of the major responsibilities of an auditor on the audited financial statements engagement.
Question 10 options:
a) True
b) False
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GEN COMBO LOOSELEAF INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING; CONNECT ACCESS CARD
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