Case 2
Case 2 is divided into two independent parts. You have to complete both parts. Part 1: Case “Spice is right” (Hall, Chapter 4, Internal control case) (max 1-2 pages) Only point c (COSO), not a, b, and d. Part 2: Case “Vouch and Trace” (max 2-3 pages)
Vouch and Trace You are a new accounting graduate and this is your first week on the job at the Los Angeles office of a CPA firm. You are still adapting to Los Angeles and to your new job in this fast-paced and exciting environment. Here you are, plucked from a small city located among farmland in the Midwest, adjusting to the big-city lifestyle. You earn more than you ever imagined and you live in an overpriced, tiny apartment. Last night, you couldn’t fall asleep because of
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The room starts filling up. Ms. Rogers says: ‘‘I look forward to continuing our conversation during lunch, if you would care to join me at my table. But now I need to start this session.’’ Ms. Rogers walks to the front of the room, welcomes the firm’s newest employees, allows the employees to introduce themselves, and jumps right into training mode. ‘‘I want to see how much you learned in college,’’ she says. ‘‘You will start by auditing reported revenue at College Business Computers (CBC) for the year ended December 31, 2008. In our training simulation, CBC is a private company. We first train you to audit private companies. For these companies, we must comply with the auditing standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). In subsequent training sessions, we will focus on public companies that are regulated by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Here is a printout of the CBC sales journal. I will now tell you about the client’s sales process.’’ Ms. Rogers pauses as we turn on our laptops to take notes. ‘‘This is what I know,’’ she continues. ‘‘CBC creates a sales order when a customer places an order by telephone. The sales department forwards one copy of the sales order to the warehouse and a second copy to the accounts receivable department. When the goods are shipped to the customer, the warehouse creates a shipping
1. Discuss the market system and the need for ethics in business and distinguish it from the law and concepts of virtue and morality.
Ans. It is unfortunate that independent audit teams have to perform in a broken system where underreported hours are rewarded. Being labeled as “fast-track superstars” for underreporting hours was a common theme at Wong’s organization
Additionally, in Sheri Betzer’s Legal Elements of Fraud (ACCM 5650) course at MSUD, not only is class time dedicated to the introduction of interviewing, but the course has a practical exercise for the students. The practical exercise includes conducting four separate interviews of individuals related to an accounting litigation scenario. Over the course of those interviews, not all the individuals contacted are overly cooperative with the student interviewer. This gives the student a much more realistic view of what may happen when he seeks information from the
Target Market Profile: Red Bull’s markets to young urban males ranging in age from 16 to 29 years old. These males live in a constantly exciting, adventurous and exerting lifestyle. They “live life on the edge” or try to and they usually are average build or go to the gym/work out on a consistent level. “Red Bull males” participate in competitive and extreme sports or any other kind of adventurous and recreational activities. Competitive gamers in the video game industry are also gravitating towards Red Bull products to keep them alert during tournaments. Red Bull defines the whole of these consumers as Generation Y because they are not only active males but active students who need the energy to finish projects and study all night. Red
Organizational control is the systematic process through which managers regulate organizational activities to make them consistent with expectations established in plans, targets and standards of performance (Kuratko, 2001). These organizational expectations are a collection of goals and accountabilities represented in the budget, which help establish performance metrics, document actual performances, allow comparison between the estimated and actual performance, and allow for corrective actions (Jones-George-Hill, 2003).
11-1 The precursors of today’s engineers listed in the quotation from Wickenden had no classes
For many of us, finding a career that we deem fun and long-term is in itself a long journey. But having a successful career in life is not just for the rich and famous, it's also for the average person.
Step one of the BIA process – The first step of BIA process is to identify business processes that are needed for supporting the information system along with the processes that depend upon information system
Coursework of Operations Management Comparison and contrast of operation problems among Executive Holloware ltd., Oilpartz ltd. and London zoo Summary In this article, three operations management related cases are studied and analysed. The writer compares and contrasts similarities and differences in these cases in the following aspects: the transformation process model, types of operations, the objectives of operations. By looking into more detailed problems in each case, those more complex items such as quality improvement, process planning, capacity planning, scheduling/loading, are also illustrated. And finally, some key factors concerned with operations improvement and strategy are given to the cases. Operations management is the term
According to Malmi, T., & Brown, D in 2008, “management controls include all the devices and systems managers use to ensure that the behaviours and decisions of their employees are consistent with the organisation’s objectives and strategies”. An MSC which stands for management control system is a system which collects and uses information to evaluate the performance of several organizational resources like human, physical, financial as well as the organization as a whole considering the organizational strategies. MCS is a system that will eventually affect the performance of the organization to implement organizational strategies. There is no assuredness that management control systems will always be efficient; both in terms of design and in terms of implementation. These systems can only raise the possibility of achievement of organizational objectives of effectiveness, efficiency, precision of financial reporting, and compliance. In this way, top management may face several challenges when designing and implementing effective management control systems in organisations.
Management control – all devices or systems managers use to ensure that behaviors and decisions of their employees are consistent with the organizations objectives and strategies (MCS)
Carmen Diaz, with a ten thousand dollar loan from two of her cousins, and one thousand dollars that she invested in equity, was able to open a specialty store called Ribbons an’ Bows, Inc, which was located in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida. Four months after opening the business, Carmen’s relatives requested a financial report, which was part of the original business arrangement. Within a short time, Carmen had expanded the business, purchased small equipment, paid wages to a part-time employee, and by all outward indicators, had been running a flourishing business. As Carmen gathered the necessary information to prepare financial statements, she started to scrutinize the transactions and was somewhat perplexed. Carmen
The purpose of this case study is to describe and analyse the features of the management control system (MCS) of University of Southern California (USC). Before commencing the analysis a brief background of USC is provided.
Customer Focus: Out of the total passengers carried by IR, inter-city passengers constitute a mere 9% of the total volume. But, this small proportion generated 176 billion passenger-km out of a total of 341 billion passenger-km, about 52% of the total. They also bring in revenue of Rs. 42.9 billion
As stated above, BGC is done after a resource is hired. Now an unverified resource is there in the company which directly alarms security issues if that resource is found to be fraud or have a criminal background. Several problems hits when a BGC is done after hiring, some of which are: