Assessment Criteria:

Student work will generally be assessed in terms of the following criteria:

1. Effectiveness of communication – i.e. readability, legibility, grammar, spelling, neatness, completeness and presentation will be a minimum threshold requirement for all written work submitted for assessment. Work that is illegible or incomprehensible and does not meet the minimum requirement will be awarded a fail grade.

2. Demonstrated understanding - This will be evidenced by the student's ability to be dialectical in the discussion of contentious issues.

 

3. Evidence of research - This will be evidenced by the references made to the statutes, auditing standards, books, journal articles and inclusion of a bibliography.

assignment word (2000 words)

Question 1.

 

What contributions do Professional Accountancy Organisations (POSAs) make to the economic, financial and social development of nations? Discuss in terms ofTheProfessional Accountancy Organization Global Development Report is an initiative of theMemorandum of Understanding to Strengthen Accountancy and Improve Collaboration (MOSAIC).

 

Question 2.

 

One objective of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is to maintain, protect and enhance public trust and confidence in the sector through increased accountability and transparency. Discuss in terms of the Charity Compliance Report: December 2012-December 2014 and Beyond.

 

Question 3.

 

What is Audit Data Analytics (ADA) and what does it mean in ‘reimagining audit in a wired world’. Discuss.

 

Question 4.

 

"I think of an Auditor as a person with enough guts to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. This quality is rare and this quality is courageous in the extreme.

 

"It is my opinion and knowledge that auditors are amongst the upper tenth of the upper twentieth of intelligent human beings. Their will to do, their motives, their ability to grasp and to use are superior to that of any other profession. I think of an auditor as having INITIATIVE. He is able to grasp or make a mockup and put it into action.

 

"Auditors survive better than other people.

 

"If this world has any faintest chance of surviving it will be not because I write, but because auditors can and will think and do.

 

"I think our auditors came from beings lately arrived on Earth who, seeing where it was going, decided to band together to send it elsewhere."

 

Required:

 

Is this true about auditors and is this how they are viewed in the world? Where does auditing sit in terms of how they are respected?

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