Download or read book Auditors Perceptions on Tasks towards Internet Reporting written by Tariq Hassaneen Ismail and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose in this study is to constitute and test a framework of factors that might impact auditors' perceptions on tasks towards internet reporting. The study employs a questionnaire to practicing auditors from audit firms in Egypt in the year 2007 to examine auditors' perceptions on tasks towards internet reporting and factors that might affect their perceptions. The study portrays total auditors' perceptions as a function of four dimensions; auditor' personal-specific characteristics; consisting of three variables, audit fieldwork-specific characteristics; containing one variable, audit firm-specific characteristics; consisting of five variables and environmental-specific characteristics; consisting of four variables. Analysis of empirical study provides evidence of a significant association between auditors' perceptions on tasks towards internet financial reporting and the following factors; auditors' knowledge in risk of internet reporting, quality systems, audit tenure, legal form of client, client industry group, user needs of financial information and legislation environment. This paper adds to the literature on internet reporting and audit tasks by exploring factors that might affect auditors' perceptions on tasks towards internet reporting.

Download or read book Determinants of Auditors Perceptions of the Work Needed in the Audit of Internet Based Financial Reports in Egypt written by Tariq Hassaneen Ismail and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose - To constitute and test a framework of factors that might affect auditors' perceptions of the work needed to audit internet-based financial reports (IBFR). Methodology/Approach - The study conducts a questionnaire on practicing auditors from audit firms in Egypt in the year 2007 to examine their perceptions of the work needed to audit IBFR and factors that might affect their perceptions.Findings - The study portrays total auditors' perceptions as a function of four dimensions. First, auditor' personal-specific characteristics (consisting of three variables); second, audit fieldwork-specific characteristics (containing one variable); third, audit firm-specific characteristics (comprising five variables); and, fourth, environmental-specific characteristics (consisting of four variables). The analysis of empirical study provides evidence of a significant association between auditors' perceptions of the work needed to audit IBFR and the following factors: auditors' knowledge of inherent risks of internet reporting, quality systems, audit tenure, legal form of client, client industry group, user needs of financial information and legislation environment.Research limitations - The scope of the survey is limited to a small number of potential participants. Accounting and auditing standards setting' environment in Egypt may restrict the generalization of the findings of this study.Originality/Value - This paper enriches to the literature on internet reporting and audit tasks by exploring factors that might affect auditors' perceptions of the work needed to audit IBFR. The study provides evidence that supports Egyptian regulators' initiatives to issue guidelines that cover IBFR, and auditors' responsibilities and the work needed in the audit of IBFR in electronic business environments in an attempt to improve the integrity of financial reporting.

Download or read book Elections perspectives on activities and challenges across the nation report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elections: Perspectives on Activities and Challenges Across the Nation" is an October 2001 report of the U.S. General Accounting Office. The report describes the operations associated with each stage of the U.S. presidential election process and includes information about voter registration, absentee and early voting, election day administration, vote counts, certification, and recounts. The U.S. General Accounting Office presents a downloadable version of the report online in PDF format.

Download or read book ACCA Paper P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance INT Study Text written by BPP Learning Media and published by BPP Learning Media. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants. With over 100 years of providing world-class accounting and finance qualifications, the ACCA has significantly raised its international profile in recent years and now supports a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting and an MBA.BPP Learning Media is an ACCA Official Publisher. The P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance paper aims to develop further your application skills when analysing, concluding and reporting on assurance engagements, building on the knowledge and skills gained from paper F8. As well as emphasising the practical aspects of carrying out assurance engagements from start to finish, this paper also develops your awareness of best practice and current developments in this field.It focuses on the following key themes: * Audit framework and regulation, including ethical and professional considerations * Quality control and practice management * The audit and assurance process, from planning through to fieldwork and final review * Reporting the results of audit and assurance engagements * Current issues and developments within the field of audit and assurance.The examiner-reviewed P7 Study Text includes everything you need for this paper, including detailed guidance on the exam and the pilot paper questions. The question bank includes questions in the style of the P7 paper, and each chapter contains useful exam focus points and chapter roundups. The Study Text provides an excellent source of the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, focussing on ethics and regulation and practice management, before going through the audit and assurance engagement process, and ending with a consideration of current issues and developments.BPP Learning Media is the publisher of choice for many ACCA students and tuition providers worldwide. Join them and plug into a world of expertise in ACCA exams.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Auditing written by David Hay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditing has been a subject of some controversy, and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline, including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues, including auditing ethics, auditor independence, social and environmental accounting as well as the future of the field. This handbook is vital reading for legislators, regulators, professionals, commentators, students and researchers involved with auditing and accounting. The collection will also prove an ideal starting place for researchers from other fields looking to break into this vital subject.

Download or read book Perspectives on International Financial Reporting and Auditing in the Airline Industry written by Can Öztürk and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on International Financial Reporting and Auditing in the Airline Industry draws on the framework of financial reporting in the global airline industry for the year 2018 and focuses on the airline financial reporting based on IFRSs and audit of airline financial reporting based on International Standards on Auditing.

Download or read book Corporate Reporting on the Internet and the Expectations Gap written by Richard T. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the practice of Internet financial reporting (IFR) has evolved rapidly, research has questioned the corresponding responsiveness of the auditing profession. This study investigates the existence and nature of an expectations gap that may have arisen in relation to the auditor's role and responsibilities with respect to IFR. Based on a questionnaire survey in New Zealand, results confirm the existence of an expectations gap between auditors and stakeholder groups. Specific responsibilities contributing to deficient performance, deficient standards and unreasonable expectations components of this gap are identified. The principal pronouncement dealing with auditors' relevant responsibilities in New Zealand is AGS 1003 Audit Issues Relating to the Electronic Presentation of Financial Statements and Related Auditor's Reports. AGS 1003 discusses, inter alia, the auditor's role and responsibilities in relation to electronic financial statements before and after online publication, and the implications of IFR for the auditor's report and other audit communications. The study argues that the authoritative status of such guidance statements may contribute to a perpetuation of the gap. Further, the profession is urged to avoid 'standard' professional responses to the issues, which risk being labelled insufficient and/or strategically motivated. The findings have policy implications for standard-setters internationally.

Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Download or read book User Perception and Influencing Factors of Technology in Everyday Life written by Mesquita, Anabela and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing amount of research is being developed in the area where technology and humans meet. The success or failure of technologies and the question whether technology helps humans to fulfill their goals or whether it hinders them is in most cases not a technical one. User Perception and Influencing Factors of Technology in Everyday Life addresses issues of human and technology interaction. The research in this work is interdisciplinary, ranging from more technical subjects such as computer science, engineering, and information systems, to non-technical descriptions of technology and human interaction from the point of view of sociology or philosophy. This book is perfect for academics, researchers, and professionals alike as it presents a set of theories that allow us to understand the interaction of technology and humans and to put it to practical use.

Download or read book Audit Effectiveness written by Kamil Omoteso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Audit Effectiveness, Dr Kamil Omoteso examines how information technology is changing the landscape for the audit profession as IT tools and techniques continue to be developed for auditors in the pursuit of quality, efficiency and effectiveness. In addition to shedding light on practical subjects such as audit automation, continuous online auditing and computer auditing, this book introduces some theory that helps explain the motivation for the use of new tools and techniques, and assists understanding of their impact on the quality of audit judgment. The book proposes a three-layered model - an integration of contingency, socio-technical systems and structuration theories - for a comprehensive understanding of IT’s impact on audit. The model advocates that the use of IT in audits is a function of certain contingent factors that determine an optimal mix of human skills and technological capabilities, which would lead to changes in the nature of auditors’ roles and outputs and audit organisations’ structures. Dr Omoteso puts forward an audit automation maturity model that can help audit firms/departments to understand their current level of IT integration and how to systematically enhance their capabilities with a view to meeting modern IT challenges - taking them from the position of mere ’followers of technology’ to that of effective ’leaders of technology’. Audit Effectiveness is for anyone practising in auditing or accounting automation, as well as for those with an academic or research interest in the challenges posed by technological advances for auditors in particular, and for managers in general.

Download or read book Conflict and Fragility Managing Risks in Fragile and Transitional Contexts The Price of Success written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides the evidence to help donors understand how to balance risks and opportunities in order to protect the integrity of their institutions while delivering better results to those who need it most.

Download or read book ACCA Options P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance International Study Text 2014 written by BPP Learning Media and published by BPP Learning Media. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The examining team reviewed P7 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P7 Syllabus topics. It explores all the main professional and regulatory aspects of audit and assurance engagements, ethics and practice management, the audit and considers current issues and developments. Detailed examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning.

Download or read book World Sustainable Development Outlook 2007 written by Allam Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Sustainable Development Outlook series has been developed to provide an overview of sustainable development, to discuss why it is important and to provoke forward thinking on the development of a more coherent approach to solving global problems related to sustainability through science and technology. In doing so, a holistic approach is used to critically examine the interrelationship between the natural, governmental, economic and social dimensions of our world and how science and technology can contribute to solutions. This is a truly global source book, which is reflected in the varied national and cultural origins of the contributors, as well as the topics and case studies covered. Each year a different theme will be covered. The theme of World Sustainable Development Outlook 2007 is the different dimensions of knowledge and technology management in the new era of information revolution and how they relate to sustainable development. Rapid innovation in information and communication technologies (ICTs) is clearly reshaping the world we live in. Countries are increasingly judged by whether they are information-rich or information-poor. It is estimated that 30–40% of the world's economic growth and 40–50% of all new jobs will be IT-driven. Education and knowledge are the chief currencies of the modern age, and can also be a strategic resource and a lifeline for sustainable development. Yet, in Africa, millions of people have never made a telephone call. The technological gulf between developed and developing countries (DCs) is likely to widen further with the rapid expansion of the internet and the speedy transition to digitalisation in the West. The impacts on DCs may include an increase in the so-called brain drain and growing dependence on foreign aid of a different kind – knowledge aid. There are fears that knowledge imperialism is already with us. What is clear is that most of the technological innovations in ICTs are Western-designed and fail to address the needs of the most disadvantaged. The interest of industrialised countries in the use of ICTs in DCs has largely been more concerned with the profitability of their own business enterprises than with any broader goals concerning the development of the host countries. DCs face the challenge of either becoming an integral part of the knowledge-based global economy or the very real danger of finding themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide. Successful management in the new millennium requires developing new methods and approaches to meet the challenges and opportunities of this information revolution while at the same time fostering sustainable development. Adopting a holistic approach, this book aims to critically examine the interrelationship between these different issues in order to reach solutions and a consensus for a better future, taking into account a variety of international, institutional and intellectual perspectives. It uses case and country studies in technological innovation and experience so that lessons in effective management of ICTs can be learned from successful initiatives, ideas and innovations.

Download or read book Action Plan for Outcomes Assessment in Your Library written by Peter Hernon and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the process of assessing if and how well students and library users are learning from the resources the library provides. The book provides data collection tools for measuring both learning and research outcomes that link outcomes to user satisfaction and includes detailed examples from actual outcomes assessment programs.

Download or read book Proceedings of ICACTCE 23 The International Conference on Advances in Communication Technology and Computer Engineering written by Celestine Iwendi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, communication technology and computer engineering are intertwined, with advances in one field driving advances in the other, leading to the development of outstanding technologies. This book delves into the latest trends and breakthroughs in the areas of communication, Internet of things, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. This book discusses challenges and opportunities that arise with the integration of communication technology and computer engineering. In addition, the book examines the ethical and social implications, including issues related to privacy, security, and digital divide and law. We have explored the future direction of these fields and the potential for further breakthroughs and innovations. The book is intended for a broad audience of undergraduate and graduate students, practicing engineers, and readers without a technical background who have an interest in learning about communication technology and computer engineering.

Download or read book Organizational Auditing and Assurance in the Digital Age written by Marques, Rui Pedro and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditing is constantly and quickly changing due to the continuous evolution of information and communication technologies. As the auditing process is forced to adapt to these changes, issues have arisen that lead to a decrease in the auditing effectiveness and efficiency, leading to a greater dissatisfaction among users. More research is needed to provide effective management and mitigation of the risk associated to organizational transactions and to assign a more reliable and accurate character to the execution of business transactions and processes. Organizational Auditing and Assurance in the Digital Age is an essential reference source that discusses challenges, identifies opportunities, and presents solutions in relation to issues in auditing, information systems auditing, and assurance services and provides best practices for ensuring accountability, accuracy, and transparency. Featuring research on topics such as forensic auditing, financial services, and corporate governance, this book is ideally designed for internal and external auditors, assurance providers, managers, risk managers, academicians, professionals, and students.

Download or read book Professionals Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility written by Samuel O Idowu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits for the entity and its stakeholders. It improves the entity’s bottom line results, protects jobs, and is also better for the environment. As such, it makes good sense for professionals and those that they interact with as colleagues, suppliers of goods and services, lenders etc to want to take the issue of CSR seriously. This perhaps explains why this book has chosen to explore how 19 professions across the world have integrated and continue to impress upon their staff the importance of CSR in their operational activities. We are constantly reminded that our world’s natural resources are exhaustible; we can therefore no longer live for today alone if we do not want to cause substantial problems for future generations.