- Industry: Accounting
- Number of terms: 7464
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Means assigning different people the responsibilities of authorising transactions, recording transactions, and maintaining custody of assets. Segregation of duties reduces the opportunities for one person to both perpetrate and conceal errors or fraud.
Industry:Accounting
The portion of a company that fills customer orders, accounts for receivables, and collects those receivables.
Industry:Accounting
An extra digit is added to a number. The extra digit is computed from the other digits in the number. The computer programme can then cheque input by recomputing and comparing the cheque digit. This is a useful control over the input of account numbers.
Industry:Accounting
To examine again. The overall review of audit documentation is completed after field work. A peer review is a practise monitoring programme in which audit documentation of one CPA firm is periodically reviewed by independent partners of other firms to determine that they conform to professional standards. An analytical review is a type of substantive audit procedure. A review of financial statements of a nonpublic company is an engagement that results in the expression of less assurance than an audit, but more than in a compilation. A review of interim financial statements of a public company consists of analytical procedures and inquiries.
Industry:Accounting
The auditor of an organisation that provides services such as data processing or pension trust administration to other organisations (the users). Auditors of the users (user auditors) rely on a report from the service auditor about controls in the service organisation that apply to financial statements of the user organisation they are auditing.
Industry:Accounting
A tag is attached to and identifies a thing such as an item in inventory, a case of items, a pallet of cases, a car passing through a reader on a tollway, or a person passing through a doorway. A transceiver sends an activating signal and receives identification information. An active RFID tag has an internal battery and has a longer range than a passive tag which is powered by the radio signal it receives.
Industry:Accounting
A document prepared when goods are shipped. It lists the date shipped, the customer, method of shipment, and quantities and specifications of goods shipped.
Industry:Accounting
Assertions about rights deal with whether the entity has rights to the asset at a given date. For example, management asserts that amounts capitalised for leases in the balance sheet represent the cost of the entity's rights to leased property.
Industry:Accounting
Representation of the operation or features of one process or system through the use of another. Computer simulation of waiting lines can determine the number of employees needed to serve customers at a particular time.
Industry:Accounting
This federal legislation requires state and local governments that receive federal aid of $500,000 or more in a fiscal year to have an audit under the act. A government that receives less than $500,000 can have an audit under the act or with specific laws and regulations of programmes in which the government participates. Auditors report whether the audited entity has followed laws and regulations that may have a material effect on each major federal aid program.
Industry:Accounting
