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AUDIT COMMITTEES, DUE DILIGENCE AND DUE CARE

enough overview and study of a situation to ensure its operating correctly. Due diligence is typically conducted before a major pu...

Accounting Standards and External Auditing

businesses subtract the fair value of those stock options from revenue, considering them as proper expenses, others are content to...

The Bankruptcy of Enron and Auditing

between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...

Organizational Audit Planning

and can not arbitrarily accept any offer they receive from an organization. Instead, auditors must conduct careful analyses in ord...

Fraud in the Court

Inspector generals investigate and audit departments or agencies to detect and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. This p...

8 Points of a Productivity Audit

take form. During necessary organizational strategy revisions, the mission statement is one of the first documents addressed; by ...

Internal Auditing and Use of Technology

they occur on a continuing and regular basis. This is the case for risk management; personnel database and skills inventory...

Application of Auditing Techniques of Information Systems

of the details of transactions as well as balances ("Is Auditing," 2004). CAATs may also produce a large range of audit evidence ...

Auditing, Accounting, and the Effects of Technology

Technology, plus the growth of international business, have had a huge impact on this industry, and in this paper, well examine ho...

Marketing Audit Design

customer is satisfied and sees value in the product or service that the organization offers. The "product" arm of the marketing m...

Auditing Problems and Solutions

done to detect fraud (Calderon & Green, 1994)? It is obvious that there is no simple answer or the problem would not persist; one...

Increased Corporate Governance Effects Assessment

the long term. A third hypothesis is that these sustainably-minded organizations outperform non-Index firms over the long t...

Project Process and Stages of Time Estimates and Attendance

and documentation to be given to owner, review each requirement against finished product. Project acceptance criteria review betwe...

Auditing Risk Scenarios

is the risk that certain transaction types or an account balance may be misstated, either due to individual transactions or as the...

Australian Corporations Act of 2001 and Public Company Directors

that this move was constitutional (Lexis, 2004). The idea may have been to increase protection for shareholders and develop unifor...

United Kingdom Business and Environmental Issues

demand for development and the protection of the environment" As such this can be seen as an attempt to regulate and bring togethe...

Internal Control and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

demands by the federal government to comply with the internal control systems which were really designed with the larger publicly ...

Increased Corporate Governance and Auditor Independence

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Accounting Audits, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Sarbanes Oxley Act, Statements on Auditing Standards 99

the creation of a Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). One year later, during 2003, the American Institute of Ce...

Effective Strategic Human Resources Planning

abilities. Of course it requires a full complement of management, accounting and sales personnel; it also employs many types of e...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Auditing Process and the External Auditor's Role

appears to be a prevalent theme in almost all of the recently profiled collapses (2002). In other words, even if there are proble...

Auditing Profession and Its Problems

rules laid down to create a separation and independence between the auditor and the company. The regulatory framework in the Unite...

Marketing Audit and New Product Marketing

we consider McDonalds there is a corporate strategy where the brand is important. The products are all designed to be easy to prep...

Issues Pertaining to SAS 85

/ Single-audit quality concerns by AICPA NEWS: Explains the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public...

Fraud and the Ethics of Internal Auditing

when it comes to the corporate world. Not to follow this path would reap severe consequences upon the business that ignored the i...

Internal Audit and ISO 9000

quality because with such an auditing system, the company will monitor all its functions on a continual basis (Barnes, 1998). The...

Financial Reporting, Audits, and Bias

their financial reporting is full, fair and unbiased. Despite long-term attention to the issue of bias, there have been man...

Safety Audits, A Reflective Evaluation

and compliance audits. Unfortunately, many companies recognize the issue of risk management and its value after HSE accide...

An Article on PT's Medicare Audits Summarized

billing stipulations. Also in 2004, spending on services rendered by physical therapists (PTs) increased dramatically. Wallace lis...