Auditor's report

The role of the management is to keep proper books of accounts and financial statements. The outcomes from the audit report that was done on the past few months have raised some concerns in the organization. We have audited the financial statements which involves statement of financial position of the year ended December 19th 2014. We have taken large samples of transactions…

Introduction Audit committees have an important role to play in order to uphold both perceived and actual independence of the external audit process and this role will continue to evolve going forward (Cohen, Krishnamoorthy & Wright, 2002a). KPMG's Audit Committee Institute (2003) states: “Today, as never before, the role, responsibility, and accountability of the audit committee continue to be the focus of lawmakers, regulators, and shareholders. The audit committee's role in overseeing a…

The Audit Risk Model serves as a methodology to identify an audit strategy that needs to be followed. Audit risk is the risk that an auditor may issue an unqualified report due to the auditor’s failure to detect material misstatement or fraud. Peet’s Coffee has an extensive system of internal control. They have internal control procedures that address the five control activities. They involve separation of duties, proper authorization…

Week 6: Fraud Case Study Group Project Vanessa Ryan, Juan Caba, Rustin Prentice, Howard Miranda Champlain College Forensic Accounting ACCT-280-45 Nicole Bocra August 14, 2016  On July 31, 2015, Howard Miranda, CFO of Microstuff Inc., contacted the internal auditor Vanessa Ryan in reference to a suspected purchase and receiving scheme within the information technology department. Based on this initial accusation, an examination was conducted—which included reviews of relevant accounting,…

Stockholders’ equity will increase D. Liabilities will decrease 3) Using accrual accounting, expenses are recorded and reported only: When they are incurred whether or not cash is paid When they are incurred and paid at the same time If they are paid before they are incurred If they are paid after they are incurred 4) Stockholders’ equity can be described as claims of Creditors on total assets Owners on total assets Customers on total assets Debtors on total assets 5) The…

checked into rooms that are thought to be ready but that in fact are occupied or not ready. If this happens often, the property's reputation will suffer. Housekeeping and the front office communicate with each other about housekeeping room status, the report on the availability of the rooms for immediate guest occupancy. Housekeeping room status can be described in the following communication terms: * Available Clean, or Ready—room is ready to be occupied * Occupied—guest or guests are…

assets, its type of business, management being dominated by one individual. the CEO Mr. Wasendorf. Additionally, the previous years’ statements showed stable profits and Mr. Wasendorf had to keep that going. Also, senior managements have motivation to report fraudulently to increase bonuses, all of these increase inherent risk at Peregrine. Moving on, control risks are the measure that error/misstatements are not detected with the use of the pre-existing internal controls present. In this case,…

Cost & Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley Act There are many debates related to the cost and the benefits of the act. The supporters of this act claimed that it was absolutely essential and played a main role in rebuilding the public’s trust in the U.S. stock markets, and in strengthening the corporate accounting principles. On the other hand, the opponents argued that since SOX, the complex regulation, was enacted, U.S. financial service providers lost their competitive edge against foreign providers…

It is often argued that this practice impairs an accountant/auditor’s independence. For this reason, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposed a one year cooling-off period before publicly held companies may hire former auditors as employees of key positions. (Wright & Booker, 2005) The purpose of the cooling off period…

the casual dining industry3. This may be attributed to its implementation and use of specific internal controls and audit procedures in majority of its restaurants. (Wild Eagle Spur in Ruimsig will be used as the main source of information in this report). • Internal Controls The purpose of internal controls of Spur is to regulate employee compliance policies, safeguard assets of the business, to ensure that the use of resources is effective and efficient and that concepts enshrined in the Code…