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the role of the external auditor should be. This analysis will review the ethics behind the actions of Wells Fargo’s external auditor, KPMG, and the actual role of external auditors in catching frauds and the types of problems they are and are not supposed to spot. Under the principles of virtue ethics, KPMG failed to go beyond their duties in testing to discover the fraudulent activity, thus deeming their actions as unethical. However, because of the regulations mandated for auditors by the PCAOB and

really good – specific and direct. Regulators are putting more and more requirements into a system that isn’t working; need to fix this before adding more and they need to take a more innovative approach – a mixture and blending of roles between all external parties.” AP3 spoke similarly on this topic and said, “I believe there is likely to be more regulation going forward because of unavoidable governance failings. This has always been the approach and is likely to continue. SOX clearly does not work

Almost 1trillion increased from previous year. According to auditor from Kencana & Associates, the aircraft purchased by FCB in 2005 was unable to be verified. Long Term debt of FCB increased drastically by RM700 million in 2005 made this company to be listed high gearing company by Rating Agency Malaysia (RAM).

Because the audit committee is representing the shareholders, and assist the external auditors to reduce the information asymmetry, as the agent for the shareholders towards management (agency principal). By hiring the audit committee and the external auditor, it will monitor the managements as shareholders agents, in order to minimise or to reduce the risk of management actions that harm shareholders interests. Furthermore, the ASX (ASIC 2015) stated that it is important to be independent, due to

Aware of this, directors may seek to influence the auditors by several ways and if shareholders suspect a gain interest relationship the appearance of independence is undermined. Related to the provision of assurance (external auditing), APB ethical standards have set frameworks that are intended to secure the independence of auditors. Some key examples are: a) Self interest threat, for example the amount of fees that are charged to clients

(1976), agency theory attempts to describe the agency relationship in the form of a metaphorical contract. That is, agency theory is a contract in which the principal is represented by management in executing the strategic goals and objectives and the auditors in providing assurance in their

Financial Statement Fraud Schemes WorldCom was involved in two major forms of financial statement fraud schemes, overstatement of revenue and understatement of line costs (Vance, 2016). WorldCom was overstating there revenue by regularly monitoring revenue through the sales groups’ performances measured against the revenue plan (Vance, 2016). Every two to three months a meeting was held that brought each sales channel’s manager and they were obligated to present and defend their sales channel’s

Enron’s business risks is when they entered into a number of aggressive transactions involving “special purpose entities” SPEs. The underlying account was questionable and/or fraudulent. Some of the transactions essentially involved Enron receiving borrowed funds without recording the liabilities on the company’s balance sheet. Instead, the inflow of funds were made to look like it came from the sale of assets. This risk made the liabilities on the financial misleading to investors and customers

Shikeuria Richardson ACCT 3006 Accounting Information System Walden University 10 November 2017 Assignment 1 – Sarbanes-Oxley and Internal Audits Assuming that Wine Depot is a publicly traded company held under the provisions of Sarbanes- Oxley Act as directed by section 404 of the act adopting the rules is subject to reporting requirements of SEC to include in their annual reports a report of management on the company's internal control over their financial reporting. Management responsibilities

total revenues of both the company and its franchises worldwide. 2.5.2 Which division of Taste Holdings generated the most system-wide sales? (1) The Food division   Part C: The Audit Report [24] 3.1 In the first paragraph of the Audit Report the auditors state that they have audited pages 72 to 116 of the Annual Report. Why have the stipulated this? (2) To ensure the owner that any faults found was found within those pages any taken from other information within the company 3.2 Who is responsible