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According to a publication by N. Chesworth; the purpose of an audit is to assess if the business is physically capable of producing a safe product which is consistently high in quality and safety. It is also used to check legal constraints are met to an acceptable level using effective control methods ensuring consistent performance. Another constructive way the audit is used is to ensure certain measures are present to support due diligence defence. Audits are usually carried out continuously to

earnings management and auditors’ decisions about whether to require adjustments.3 Thus, our study provides evidence about how a key feature of accounting standards (precision of rules) and a key feature of the financial reporting process (activity of external auditors) influence earnings management. Results of descriptive analyses indicate that the earnings management attempts in our sample occurred in numerous accounting areas, including revenue recognition, business combinations, intangibles, fixed assets

Auditing Case study Answers to case study: 1. What are the auditor 's primary objectives when he or she observes the client 's annual physical inventory? Ans. The Primary Objective of auditor is to make sure the inventory reflected on the balance sheet actually exists and that the balance sheet includes all inventory owned by the company .This includes all raw material,supplies,inventory in transit.The company may have on consignment with another business and inventory stored off the

1. Why would the owners of Lakeside as well as the company’s banks require that an independent CPA firm perform the annual audit? The reason that there needs to be an independent auditor is so that they can remain unbiased. It could potentially make them less independent if they are auditing both Lakeside and the bank in which Lakeside is taking loans from. The auditing firm needs to stay independent in mind and appearance and this may be an issue when auditing both. 2. This case implies that

1099953 Monica Jorge, 3622098 Youthalyn Mair-Pryce, 3622089 ACG 4651 – Fall 2013 Section 04 September 17, 2013 – Case #1: The importance of being independent (by Deloitte) Discussion Questions One of the key roles of the external auditor is to protect the interest of the public. To achieve this, it is important for the public to trust and have confidence in the work of an auditor. It is crucial that auditors appear independent to the public in both fact and appearance. For

acquired and reviewed. These reports include the company’s annual reports, management reports and income tax returns. Next step includes investigating and inquiring of third parties on the particular company. The opinions of third parties especially the external users such as bank, creditors, suppliers, tax authorities and even consumers are essential to know more about a company. Besides that, permission should be gained to communicate with the

chi-square method. The study revealed that there is need for the audit of public enterprises in Nigeria; there is objectivity in the appointment of the external auditor for the audit of public enterprises in Nigeria; and that the

Barclay’s has grown into one of the largest financial groups in the United Kingdom. The company has diversified itself and is involved with banking, investment banking, and investment management. They operate over 4750 branches in 50 countries in which 1600 are based in the United Kingdom. The company has over 4.5 million registered online bankers and over 10.6 million Barclaycard customers in the United Kingdom. Barclay’s is currently the 7th largest bank in the world with assets valuing $2.41 trillion

The Recovery Audit Contractors was created to “detect and correct past improper payments” (Casto, Anne, and Elizabeth Forrestal, Fourth Edition, 4th Edition. AHIMA Press,). The RAC was placed to help recover any overpayments and underpayments paid to providers. “The reasons for a Recovery Audit” (Casto, Anne, and Elizabeth Forrestal, Fourth Edition, 4th Edition. AHIMA Press,) are payments are received for treatments that were never done, the wrong medical code was used for a certain treatment, ,double

Literature review: Green (1994) said that there are many ways to supervise an enterprise and an audit committee is an important proportion of this supervision. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States first provided a theory that every public enterprise should establish its own audit committees in 1940 (SEC, 1940). After 1970, the SEC has passed the theory as practice (SEC, 1972), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) suggested its members who listed in NYSE that the audit