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b6 Principles Of Auditing And Other Assurance Services
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ALL Chapters (1 - 21)
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Chapter 1: The Role of the Public Accountant in the AmericanEconomy
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Chapter 2: Professional Standards
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Chapter 3: Professional Ethics
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Chapter 4: Legal Liability of CPAs
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Chapter 5: Audit Evidence and Documentation
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Chapter 6: Audit Planning, Understanding the Client, AssessingRisks, and Responding
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Chapter 7: Internal Control
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Chapter 8: Consideration of Internal Control in an InformationTechnology Environment
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Chapter 9: Audit Sampling
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Chapter 10: Cash and Financial Investments
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Chapter 11: Accounts Receivable, Notes Receivable, andRevenue
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Chapter 12: Inventories and Cost of Goods Sold
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Chapter 13: Property, Plant, and Equipment: Depreciation andDepletion
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Chapter 14: Accounts Payable and Other Liabilities
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Chapter 15: Debt and Equity Capital
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Chapter 16: Auditing Operations and Completing the Audit
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Chapter 17: Auditors’ Reports
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Chapter 18: Integrated Audits of Public Companies
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Chapter 19: Additional Assurance Services: Historical FinancialInformation
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Chapter 20: Additional Assurance Services: Other Information
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Chapter 21: Internal, Operational, and Compliance Auditing
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Review Questions
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1-1 The ―crisis of credibility‖ largely arose from the number of companies that restated their
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previously issued financial statements as a result of accounting irregularities and fraud.
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Especially responsible werethe very visible Enron and WorldCom fraud cases. Both companies
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filed for bankruptcy and constituted the largest companies in American history to do so. The
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extent of the accounting irregularities and fraud being investigated and disclosed brought into
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question the effectiveness of financial statement audits. In addition, the criminal conviction of
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Arthur Andersen, LLP, one of the then Big 5 accounting firms, on charges of destroying
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documents related to the Enron case brought into question the ethics standards of the
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profession.
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1-2 Assurance services are professional services that enhance the quality of information, or its
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context, for decision-making. The two types are: (a) those that increase the reliability of
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information and (b) those that involve putting information in a form or context that facilitates
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decision-making.
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1-3 A financial statement audit is, by far, the most common type of attest engagement. The overall
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assertion,made by management, most frequently is that the financial statements follow generally
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accepted accounting principles.
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1-4 A large corporation with securities listed on a stock exchange is required by the rules of the
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stock exchange and by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide an
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audit report with theannual financial statements furnished to its stockholders. It also is required
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to engage the auditors to provide an opinion on its internal control. Apart from legal
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requirements, however, a large listed corporation recognizes that it must maintain investor
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confidence in the reliability of its financial statements and internal control over financial
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reporting if it is to continue to be able to secure capital from the public. The report by a
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firm of certified public accountants adds credibility to the financial statements prepared by the
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corporation. When a small family-owned enterprise elects to have an audit, the purpose
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, usually is to use the auditors' report to support an application for a bank loan.
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