Essays on Auditing Page 8

China Mobile Limited is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia service and it incorporated in Hong Kong on 3 September 1997. The company was listed on both New York Stock Exchange and The Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. As of November 2012, China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile phone…

The company’s mission, vision and values The mission of BIC is to make the consumer’s life easier by providing quality products that are safe. Some of the company’s perspectives are: “We offer simple, inventive and reliable choices for everyone, everywhere, every time. “ “Honor the past, invent the future. “ “Our vision and our philosophy…

1)Which “management assertions” were relevant to Paragon’s construction projects? Describe an audit procedure that Arthur Anderson could have employed to corroborate that assertion for each. Professional auditing standards identify 5 “management assertions” that commonly underlie a set of financial statements. These 5 assertions are: occurrence, completeness, valuation/allocation, rights/obligations, and presentation/disclosure. With respect to the audit…

Bernie Madoff’s $50 Billion Ponzi SchemeNamed after con man Charles Ponzi, a Ponzi scheme is a fraud of investment, which appeals to investors due to the promise of high returns with little to no risk. Investors believe they are receiving profits however they are merely receiving principal of new investors. In order to be successful,…

Synopsis Bernie Madoff’s primary goal was to accumulate wealth, leading him to establish his own brokerage firm named Madoff Securities. Having been raised in New York City, he understood that Wall Street was the gateway to worldwide fortunes. In 1960, right after graduating from college, he set out on a mission to join the influential…

There were two really typical functions for the hearers in the WorldCom dirt. One function being that of the Whistle-blower played by Cynthia Cooper a former head audit executive at WorldCom. She blew the whistling on an $ 11 billion accounting fraud strategy. Since bring outing the dirt, Cooper has been talking publically about her…

As soon as the project has passed through the testing and implementation phase and is ready to be passed on to the organization, a project post mortem review should be conducted. A project post mortem review is one of four reviews commonly practiced by project managers to ensure all deliverables, goals, and objectives were met…