(d) Draft a letter for Tim Blake to send to WM’s investors to include the following:
(i) why you believe robust internal controls to be important; and
(ii) proposals on how internal systems might be improved in the light of the overestimation of mallerite at
WM.
Note: four professional marks are available within the marks allocated to requirement (d) for the structure,
content, style. and layout of the letter.
(16 marks)
You will be aware of the importance of accurate resource valuation to Worldwide Minerals (WM). Unfortunately, I have to
inform. you that the reserve of mallerite, one of our key minerals in a new area of exploration, was found to have been
overestimated after the purchase of a mine. It has been suggested that this information may have an effect on shareholder
value and so I thought it appropriate to write to inform. you of how the board intends to respond to the situation.
In particular, I would like to address two issues. It has been suggested that the overestimation arose because of issues with
the internal control systems at WM. I would firstly like to reassure you of the importance that your board places on sound
internal control systems and then I would like to highlight improvements to internal controls that we shall be implementing
to ensure that the problem should not recur.
(i) Importance of internal control
Internal control systems are essential in all public companies and Worldwide Minerals (WM) is no exception. If anything,
WM’s strategic position makes internal control even more important, operating as it does in many international situations
and dealing with minerals that must be guaranteed in terms of volume, grade and quality. Accordingly, your board
recognises that internal control underpins investor confidence. Investors have traditionally trusted WM’s management
because they have assumed it capable of managing its internal operations. This has, specifically, meant becoming aware
of and controlling known risks. Risks would not be known about and managed without adequate internal control
systems. Internal control, furthermore, helps to manage quality throughout the organisation and it provides
management with information on internal operations and compliance. These features are important in ensuring quality
at all stages in the WM value chain from the extraction of minerals to the delivery of product to our customers. Linked
to this is the importance of internal control in helping to expose and improve underperforming internal operations.
Finally, internal control systems are essential in providing information for internal and external reporting upon which, in
turn, investor confidence rests.
(ii) Proposals to improve internal systems at WM
As you may be aware, mineral estimation and measurement can be problematic, particularly in some regions. Indeed,
there are several factors that can lead to under or overestimation of reserves valuations as a result of geological survey
techniques and regional cultural/social factors. In the case of mallerite, however, the issues that have been brought to
the board’s attention are matters of internal control and it is to these that I would now like to turn.
In first instance, it is clear from the fact that the overestimate was made that we will need to audit geological reports at
an appropriate (and probably lower) level in the organisation in future.
Once a claim has been made about a given mineral resource level, especially one upon which investor returns might
depend, appropriate systems will be instituted to ask for and obtain evidence that such reserves have been correctly and
accurately quantified.
We will recognise that single and verbal source reports of reserve quantities may not necessarily be accurate. This was
one of the apparent causes of the overestimation of mallerite. A system of auditing actual reserves rather than relying
on verbal evidence will rectify this.
The purchase of any going concern business, such as the mallerite mine, is subject to due diligence. WM will be
examining its procedures in this area to ensure that they are fit for purpose in the way that they may not have been in
respect of the purchase of the mallerite mine. I will be taking all appropriate steps to ensure that all of these internal
control issues can be addressed in future.
Thank you for your continued support of Worldwide Minerals and I hope the foregoing goes some way to reassure you
that the company places the highest value on its investors and their loyalty.
Yours faithfully,
Tim Blake
Chairman
第1题:
听力原文:M: Accounting controls refer to plans, procedures and records required for safeguarding assets and producing reliable financial accounts.
W: Yes. Accounting controls are important elements of a bank's internal control system, the soundness of which is vital for bank's survival.
Q: What are the important elements of a bank's internal control system?
(15)
A.Accounting basis.
B.Cash basis accounting.
C.Accounting control.
D.The chart of accounts of a bank.
第2题:
听力原文:Other aspects of operational risk include major failure of information technology systems or events such as major fires or other disasters.
(6)
A.Information technology system can cause operational risk.
B.A major fire can be a cause of operational risk.
C.The most important types of operational risk involve breakdowns in internal controls and corporate governance.
D.Other aspects of operational risk include firing its dealers, lending officers or other staff exceeding their authority or conducting business in an unethical or risky manner.
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Following a competitive tender, your audit firm Cal & Co has just gained a new audit client Tirrol Co. You are the manager in charge of planning the audit work. Tirrol Co’s year end is 30 June 2009 with a scheduled date to complete the audit of 15 August 2009. The date now is 3 June 2009.
Tirrol Co provides repair services to motor vehicles from 25 different locations. All inventory, sales and purchasing systems are computerised, with each location maintaining its own computer system. The software in each location is
the same because the programs were written specifically for Tirrol Co by a reputable software house. Data from each location is amalgamated on a monthly basis at Tirrol Co’s head office to produce management and financial accounts.
You are currently planning your audit approach for Tirrol Co. One option being considered is to re-write Cal & Co’s audit software to interrogate the computerised inventory systems in each location of Tirrol Co (except for head office)
as part of inventory valuation testing. However, you have also been informed that any computer testing will have to be on a live basis and you are aware that July is a major holiday period for your audit firm.
Required:
(a) (i) Explain the benefits of using audit software in the audit of Tirrol Co; (4 marks)
(ii) Explain the problems that may be encountered in the audit of Tirrol Co and for each problem, explain
how that problem could be overcome. (10 marks)
(b) Following a discussion with the management at Tirrol Co you now understand that the internal audit department are prepared to assist with the statutory audit. Specifically, the chief internal auditor is prepared to provide you with documentation on the computerised inventory systems at Tirrol Co. The documentation provides details of the software and shows diagrammatically how transactions are processed through the inventory system. This documentation can be used to significantly decrease the time needed to understand the computer systems and enable audit software to be written for this year’s audit.
Required:
Explain how you will evaluate the computer systems documentation produced by the internal audit
department in order to place reliance on it during your audit. (6 marks)
第4题:
If you are on the beach and are signaling to a small boat in distress that your present location is dangerous and they should land to the left,you would ______.
A.fire a green star to the left
B.send the letter K by light and point to the left
C.place an orange signal to your left as you signal with a white light
D.send the code signal S followed by L
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I thought you might be tired, () is why I decided to help you.
Athat
Bthis
Cwhich
Das
第9题:
You are about to create your Oracle data dictionary for use with the database. Which of the following users would you connect to the database as for this purpose in Oracle9i and later releases?()
第10题:
You have an Exchange Server 2010 organization.You discover that messages sent to the Internet include internal Exchange routing information in the message header.You need to prevent internal routing information from being sent to external recipients. What should you do?()
第11题:
Deploy one Edge Transport server on the internal network, and then configure EdgeSync synchronization.
Deploy one Hub Transport server on the internal network, and then configure EdgeSync synchronization.
Deploy one Hub Transport server on the internal network and one Hub Transport server on the perimeter network.
Deploy two Hub Transport servers on the internal network.
第12题:
Create a new remote domain.
Modify the permissions of the Send connector.
Modify the properties of the sender reputation feature.
Enable domain security on the default Receive connector.
第13题:
Why did you stop my car, police officer?
()You just ran a red light.
A. Your driver's license please.
B. I just want to.
C. No why.
答案:A
解析:警官,为什么你拦下我?
拿出你的驾驶证。你刚闯红灯了。
第14题:
Which of the following operations need NOT to be entered on the Oil Record Book Part I? I、Disposal of oil residues. II、 Internal transfer of fuel oil
A.I only
B.II only
C.both I and II
D.neither I nor II
第15题:
(31)有以下程序
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{ char a[30],b[30];
scanf("%s",a);
gets(b);
printf("%s\n %s\n",a,b);
}
程序运行时若输入:
how are you? I am fine<回车>
则输出结果是
A)how are you? B)how
I am fine are you? I am fine
C)how are you? I am fine D)row are you?
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I thought you might be tired, () is why I decided to help you.
第21题:
Your network contains an internal network and a perimeter network. The internal network contains a single Active Directory site. The perimeter network contains two Exchange Server 2010 Edge Transport servers. You plan to deploy an Exchange Server 2010 organization on the internal network. You need to plan the deployment of Hub Transport server roles to meet the following requirements:.If a single Hub Transport server fails, e-mail messages from the Internet must be delivered to the Mailboxservers. .If a single Hub Transport server fails, users must be able to send e-mail messages to other users thathave mailboxes on the same Mailbox server. What should you include in the plan?()
第22题:
that
this
which
as
第23题:
Lovely weather, isn’t it? ; I’m worn out.
And you? ; I came here with Sue.
I’d been wondering when I’d run into you. ; How about you?
How time flies! ; I’ve been longing to see you for weeks.