EBK AUDITING & ASSURANCE SERVICES: A SY
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.7RQ
To determine
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Business risk is the risk that business may discontinue or may suffer losses due to the circumstances. The auditor should assess these risks because it may affect the going concern assumption of accounting.
To indicate:The business risk for entity operating in coal mine.
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Litigation and Environmental: The Company has been notified, or is a named or a potentially responsible party in a number of governmental (federal, state and local) and private actions associated with environmental matters, such as those relating to hazardous wastes, including certain sites which are on the United States EPA National Priorities List (“Superfund”). These actions seek clean-up costs, penalties and/or damages for personal injury or to property or natural resources.
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(b)A waste disposal company has breached tax regulations, environmental regulations and health and safety regulations. The auditor has been approached by the tax authorities, the government body supervising the award of licences to such companies and a trade union representative. All of them have asked the auditor to provide them with information about the company. The auditor has also been approached by the police. They are investigating a suspected fraud perpetrated by the managing director of the company and they wish to ask the auditor certain questions about him.
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Chapter 4 Solutions
EBK AUDITING & ASSURANCE SERVICES: A SY
Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.1RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.2RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.3RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.4RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.5RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.6RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.7RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.8RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.9RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.10RQ
Ch. 4 - Prob. 4.11RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.12RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.13MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.14MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.15MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.16MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.17MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.18MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.19MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.20MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.21MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.22MCQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.23PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.24PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.25PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.26PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.27PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.28PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.29PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.30PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.31PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.32P
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