Questions from General Accounting


Q: Romello Accounting LLP is a small CPA firm consisting of three partners

Romello Accounting LLP is a small CPA firm consisting of three partners and seven other professional staff. The firm offers full attestation and assurance services. Most of the work is for small and m...

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Q: Jamie Keller was pleased with his new job position as director of

Jamie Keller was pleased with his new job position as director of international consolidation for Gamma Enterprises. Gamma Enterprises was a consolidation of high-tech gaming companies, with subsidiar...

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Q: Barry Yellen, CPA, is a sole practitioner. The largest

Barry Yellen, CPA, is a sole practitioner. The largest audit client in his office is Rooster Sportswear. Rooster is a privately owned company in Chicken Heights, Idaho, with a 12-person board of direc...

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Q: Assume in the DigitPrint case that the venture capitalists do not provide

Assume in the DigitPrint case that the venture capitalists do not provide additional financing to the company, even though the accrued expense adjustments have not been made. The company hires an audi...

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Q: Diamond Foods, based in Stockton, California, is a premium

Diamond Foods, based in Stockton, California, is a premium snack food and culinary nut company with diversified operations. The company had a reputation of making bold and expensive acquisitions. Due...

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Q: Bill Young felt uneasy but good about downloading hundreds of pages of

Bill Young felt uneasy but good about downloading hundreds of pages of documents about Infant Products Inc., an audit client of his CPA firm, Rogers & Autry, which involved the bribery of foreign gove...

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Q: Ahold is a publicly held company organized in the Netherlands with securities

Ahold is a publicly held company organized in the Netherlands with securities registered with the SEC pursuant to Section 12(B) of the Exchange Act. Ahold’s securities trade on the NYSE and are eviden...

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Q: Auditors are not always found guilty of negligence, gross negligence,

Auditors are not always found guilty of negligence, gross negligence, and fraud when lawsuits are filed against them. And they do not always settle lawsuits to avoid costly, protracted litigation. A g...

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Q: Background On November 20, 2012, Hewlett-Packard (

Background On November 20, 2012, Hewlett-Packard (HP) disclosed that it discovered an accounting fraud and has written down $8.8 billion of the value of Autonomy, the British software company that it...

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Q: The facts of this case and names of main characters have been

The facts of this case and names of main characters have been changed to focus on specific ethical and professional obligations. Heinrich Müller had always been a team player. His many years at one o...

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