what does a business audit entail
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You should try \nSmall Business Administration www.sba.gov and\nS.C.O.R.E (Senior Core of Retired Executives) www.score.org\nThese are both excellent and FREE
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If you're using software, there is often a 'canned' chart of accounts included.\n\nIf you do a search for 'sample chart of accounts', you'll find many examples - you should look for one that best fits your type of company\n\nWhat many people do, if your biz is not complicated, is just use say 1xxxx for assets, 2xxxx for liabilities, 3xxxx for equity, 4xxxx for revenues, 5xxxx for cost of goods sold, 6xxxx for expenses, 7xxxx for taxes, 8xxxx for other income/expense.\n\nIf you more or less follow the order in which things will appear on the financial statements, you can't go too far wrong
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Your auditor/lawyer will be able to get it done at the local subregistrar's office
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Auditing skills and team player skills are two different things. As a professional auditor he should do only what the job demands.His agreeing to be a team player at the time of employment interview need not stand in the way. Mark must express his need for information and following certain procedures.
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There should be a night auditor balancing the books each night. If the issue is not accounting it may be the clerks. I worked as a manager on duty for a sleazy motel chain and found several employees who would trade hotel rooms for drugs or pocket money from cash sales. It may be as simple as monitoring the staff or instituting a more stringent accounting technique.
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You should ask for a copy and take it to a Lawyer to have him/her check over the legal ramifications of the document and if your company has any right in doing so.
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What is your charter of duties?\n\nSome people draw your charter of duties and tragets from the same biz plan. It is a document that will explain your understanding of the company business, what opportunities are there, and how do you intend to contribute to the company.
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Sarbanes-Oxley was a hastily enacted law in response in Enron and several other corrupt corporations.  Congress' goal was to assure the public that they were on top of things by enacting a law that would provide more transparency and integrity in reporting financial results.  You are making the assumption that longevity in a job necessarily leads to corruption and that if companies simply swapped auditors every so often all problems would by cured.  By your reasoning the company ought to get a new outside CEO each year.\n\nThe fault with your reasoning is that you ignore both reality (very few publicly held corporations are cooking the books) and the law of unintended consequences:  Sarbanes puts such onerous responsibilities on outside directors, for example,  that few want to serve.  With your scenario these outside directors must now stake their freedom, fortunes and honor on a bunch of greenhorn auditors who know nothing about the company they are auditing.\n\nStock prices go down when companies become corrupt.  They also drop when earnings drop.  S/O is hugely expensive to implement and causes top management to play too much defense.  Because this impacts earnings S/O may well cause the loss of more wealth than it presumably will protect.\n\nYour idea is a recipe for disaster.  Life involves risk.  If one can't stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen.  You can always keep your money safe in T-Bills.
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Take a look a samples that are close to what you want at http://www.bplans.com/samples/sba.cfm
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business is business\npersonal is personal\n\nthis is true dealing with people, as well as with your own life. remember to take time out to enjoy the fruits of your labor. on the business side, don't take it personal. if the biz fails, it is not personal. if you have a bad experience with a customer, its not personal. if someone rips you off, go after them. dont have sympathy, its business, NOT personal. \n\ncustomer service is the most important thing to focus on. that is the only thing that will make your biz stand out in a crowd. make your customers remember you by surprising them with your level of service. this is true in ANY type of business
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it is an audit with the purpose of discovering what (normally) went wrong. Usually to explain and quantify the extent of malfeasance, and normally undertaken where there is a high suspicion or basic proof of wrongdoing
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It would be dependent upon the specific Non-Disclosure/Non-compete clause the employee signed with the audit firm. Also relevant would be the laws of the state in which the agreement was subject to.\n\nSorry to be so vague - but there are a lot of details that would have to be spelled out to make a specific answer.
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Check these sites for news:\n\nwww.fasb.org\nwww.aicpa.org\nwww.gasb.org\nwww.sarbanes-oxley.com\n\nYou need to decide first what you want to write about.  There is a lot of information for accounting/auditing available.
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By providing management information on elements of the business including inventory, production, employees, accounts payable/receivable, etc.\n\nMike Honeycutt
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The government does not audit particular kinds of claims, but returns in their entirety. The selection criteria for an audit depends more on how the information provided compares to other information the IRS already has. If there are inconsistencies, they initiate an audit.
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Go to the SEC web site, under the section on internal control reporting provisions (linked below). There, you will see a number of links to studies, testimony, etc. from public companies, accounting firms, investors and so on.\n\nCFO magazine, the FEI, and a publication titled 'Compliance Week' also have information. Another source is the AICPA web site, also linked below.
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You can turn on Auditing on your computer. Below is a useful link explaining how to do so.\n\nhttp://netsecurity.about.com/cs/tutorials/ht/ht040503.htm\n\nOnce enabled you can see the activity in your event log (right click mycomputer>manage>Event Viewer>Security.