The auditing process was also significantly affected by the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley. Indeed, the most significant impacts of the legislation are faced by auditors. Auditors are forbidden to have conflicts of interest, such as consulting agreement Continue Reading...
A major objective of the custodial Financial reporting system is to be continuously and accurately responsive to regular and ad hoc requests for custodial financial reports" (Website of the Internal Revenue Service, 2008). The new information syste Continue Reading...
Most audit managers assign supervisory tasks to senior auditors and, in general, consistently encourage more senior auditors to fulfill a mentor role within the audit team. The dual benefit of this practice is that it fosters greater team unity an Continue Reading...
However, each chapter does include a paragraph explaining the intended purpose and outcome of the study. This study was not a traditional academic study and did not follow a standard academic format. It followed specific departmental government guid Continue Reading...
SOX provides explicit legislative directives for SEC regulation, altering this authority division, of what was once perceived as the states' exclusive jurisdiction. Rule 404 of the SEC The following Executive Summary reflects the Rule 404 of the S Continue Reading...
Financial Crimes, Fraud, and Investigation The banking sector is a critical part of a country’s economy. This is more so the case given that it is actively involved in the holding as well as management of diverse financial assets and the coordi Continue Reading...
Currently, auditors must labor over the writing of each section as though it must read perfectly when they submit it for the review by the senior auditors. Many of them have expressed frustration at the fact that they are not good writers. Conseque Continue Reading...
United States. I feel that auditors should be held to the highest standards and any implication of illegal behavior should be punishable under law. Supreme Court aside, Congress has done much within Sarbanes-Oxley to address the legal ramifications Continue Reading...
Disney next shifted its focus on middle and senior management, creating a phase called Integration of Values to Action, which stressed the need for ensuring training of managers on how their actions directly impact AA in the workplace. This included Continue Reading...
According to Moberly (2007) "during its first three years, only 3.6% of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblowers won relief through the initial administrative process that adjudicates such claims, and only 6.5% of whistleblowers won appeals through the process Continue Reading...
SEC that features a short background on what the SEC is and when it was formed. It has interview questions and responses and a mini literature review to provide context from which to examine and recommend steps for the SEC to maintain control of maj Continue Reading...
Also, unlike the broad ethical guidelines provided by other professional organizations, the FASB's standards have been rule-based, as opposed to principle-based which may provide extremely detailed guidelines but also can eliminate the ability of th Continue Reading...
Mortgage Fraud Mortgage fraud is said to occur when fabrication or omission of important facts on the part of prospective homebuyers, lenders or sellers results in the approval of mortgage loans or terms applicants would usually not be entitled to en Continue Reading...
Offshore tax evasion is one of the major issues that has faced Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States. This issue has had considerable negative impacts on economic growth and development of the United States with respect to taxation. The Continue Reading...
Immigration Systems: What's the point? Ineffective immigration regulations for migrant deportation on criminal charges places significant burden on the United States, in addition to threatening public safety. Congress enacted the most comprehensive Continue Reading...
Organized Crime Fighting Organized crime, and more specifically, international organized crime (IOC) present very serious and long lasting problems for law enforcement units in many ways. The manner in which the laws are constructed within the Unite Continue Reading...
The COP will be responsible to attend the Police Commission meetings to keep commission members knowledgeable about any issue related to the Department's operations, and to respond to citizens' complaints or concerns. The COP acts on all matters re Continue Reading...
To the extent the totality of circumstances suggest that possibility, even acceptance of the most nominal gratuities (i.e. A cup of coffee) is ethically inappropriate. Similarly, even where the gratuity involved is of nominal value and there is no Continue Reading...
Enron could engage in their derivative trading strategy with no fear of government intervention because derivative trading was specifically exempted from government regulation. Due in part to a ruling by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission' Continue Reading...
This is as long as such as move would not in any way compromises the safety as well as promptness of a thorough investigation.The verbal as well as written document shall in this case be restricted to the persons responsible for the receiving, respo Continue Reading...
Ethical and Legal obligations in financial reporting is extremely important in today's world, fraught as it is with corporate frauds and accounting scams and scandals of every other sort. One Company, the Thornburg Investment Company, has taken a fir Continue Reading...
Later in the year, this same task force, including Cheney, recommended Enron as a company that was upstanding and endorses its many proposals. This further complicated the Enron image giving it further clout to conduct business in an unethical manne Continue Reading...
b) It is required that the "summary prospectus appear at the front of a fund's prospectus." (Security Exchange Commission (b)) c) Amendments have been made so that the Internet can be used to give important 'information' inclusive of "description Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance: A review of Literature What is Corporate Governance? Principles of Corporate Governance Theoretical foundations of corporate governance Agency theory Stewardship theory Stakeholder theory Post-Enron theories Corporate Go Continue Reading...
This indicates that none is capable of outperforming the market with the use of something that 'that everybody else knows'. Still there exists a number of financial analysis those study the past trend of stock prices and the trend in trading volume Continue Reading...
Internal Controls Provide an example of an item that pertains to either (a) the internal control environment (the umbrella) or (b) a monitoring activity or (c) a risk assessment activity that relates to Microsoft Corporation. In 2002, the SEC settl Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance in Harris Scarfe: Harris Scarfe Department Stores is a company that was founded in 1849 in Adelaide, South Australia and housed various major South Australian department stores. The history of the organization is traced to a per Continue Reading...
Under the Annunzio-Wylie Act, the U.S. Treasury is authorized to require financial institutions to adopt anti-money laundering programs that include: (a) internal policies, procedures, and controls; (b) designation of a compliance officer; - continu Continue Reading...
6. Company members falsifying, altering, destroying or otherwise tempering with organizational documents risk punishments between fines up to 20 years imprisonment 7. Organizational staff members notifying their superiors or the legal authoritie Continue Reading...
Adult Day Care Industry ABC Adult Day Care will be a mid-sized company, which will provide adult day care services to the residents of Boston. This mid-sized adult care facility will serve adults aged fifty years and above. It will provide community Continue Reading...
OSIIT An analysis of IT policy transformation The aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of information security policy in the context of an organization, OSI Systems, Inc. With presence in Africa, Australia, Canada, England, Malaysia Continue Reading...
Compliance Manager operates as an independent office within the corporation. This means that the compliance manager does not work under any of the management personnel. The reason for this is that the compliance manager must be able to maintain indep Continue Reading...
Miller & Lemons (1998) had identified other problems, one of which was, in fact, exclusion from the old boy networks. They noted the fact that women also often are in a pioneering role as problematical." And they had a very sympathetic viewpoin Continue Reading...
Asset misappropriation schemes are frauds in which the perpetrators use trickery or deceit in order to steal or misuse the resources within an organization. When asset misappropriation occurs the specific assets of the organization are taken directly Continue Reading...
Financial statements are produced in order to help stakeholders understand the financial condition of the entity in question. Different types of entities, however, have different reporting requirements. A self-employed individual has very different n Continue Reading...
The financial sector is one of particular interest in terms of the company governance regulatory framework in Romania (Center for Urban Development Studies). A trend has been noticed in that financial institutions have improved their structures of Continue Reading...
These controls can include having a standardized procedure for the preparation of the forecast budget or through the application of budgetary slack. The lower the slack management allows in the forecast budget, the greater the lower the variance tha Continue Reading...
Public Policy in Local Government In a general setting, the public policy is understood as a set of regulations implemented by the state in order to manage a specific issue within the parameters imposed by the current legislations. In a different fo Continue Reading...
However, some of the most difficult ethical issues involve speculative homebuyers who did not misrepresent their financial qualifications but who understood enough about the housing market and the direct connection between wide-scale mortgage fraud Continue Reading...
