(b) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act contains provisions for the attestation (verification) and reporting to shareholders ofinternal controls over financial reporting.Required:Describe the typical contents of an external report on internal controls. (8 marks)

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(b) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act contains provisions for the attestation (verification) and reporting to shareholders of

internal controls over financial reporting.

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Describe the typical contents of an external report on internal controls. (8 marks)

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(d) Sirus raised a loan with a bank of $2 million on 1 May 2007. The market interest rate of 8% per annum is tobe paid annually in arrears and the principal is to be repaid in 10 years time. The terms of the loan allow Sirusto redeem the loan after seven years by paying the full amount of the interest to be charged over the ten yearperiod, plus a penalty of $200,000 and the principal of $2 million. The effective interest rate of the repaymentoption is 9·1%. The directors of Sirus are currently restructuring the funding of the company and are in initialdiscussions with the bank about the possibility of repaying the loan within the next financial year. Sirus isuncertain about the accounting treatment for the current loan agreement and whether the loan can be shown asa current liability because of the discussions with the bank. (6 marks)Appropriateness of the format and presentation of the report and quality of discussion (2 marks)Required:Draft a report to the directors of Sirus which discusses the principles and nature of the accounting treatment ofthe above elements under International Financial Reporting Standards in the financial statements for the yearended 30 April 2008.

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(b) Discuss how management’s judgement and the financial reporting infrastructure of a country can have asignificant impact on financial statements prepared under IFRS. (6 marks)Appropriateness and quality of discussion. (2 marks)

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(e) Internal controls are very important in a complex civil engineering project such as the Giant Dam Project.Required:Describe the difficulties of maintaining sound internal controls in the Giant Dam Project created by workingthrough sub-contractors. (4 marks)

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4 At an academic conference, a debate took place on the implementation of corporate governance practices indeveloping countries. Professor James West from North America argued that one of the key needs for developingcountries was to implement rigorous systems of corporate governance to underpin investor confidence in businessesin those countries. If they did not, he warned, there would be no lasting economic growth as potential foreign inwardinvestors would be discouraged from investing.In reply, Professor Amy Leroi, herself from a developing country, reported that many developing countries arediscussing these issues at governmental level. One issue, she said, was about whether to adopt a rules-based or aprinciples-based approach. She pointed to evidence highlighting a reduced number of small and medium sized initialpublic offerings in New York compared to significant growth in London. She suggested that this change could beattributed to the costs of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States and that over-regulation would be thelast thing that a developing country would need. She concluded that a principles-based approach, such as in theUnited Kingdom, was preferable for developing countries.Professor Leroi drew attention to an important section of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to illustrate her point. The keyrequirement of that section was to externally report on – and have attested (verified) – internal controls. This was, sheargued, far too ambitious for small and medium companies that tended to dominate the economies of developingcountries.Professor West countered by saying that whilst Sarbanes-Oxley may have had some problems, it remained the casethat it regulated corporate governance in the ‘largest and most successful economy in the world’. He said that ruleswill sometimes be hard to follow but that is no reason to abandon them in favour of what he referred to as ‘softer’approaches.(a) There are arguments for both rules and principles-based approaches to corporate governance.Required:(i) Describe the essential features of a rules-based approach to corporate governance; (3 marks)

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(c) Construct the arguments in favour of Professor Leroi’s remark that external reporting requirements on internalcontrols were ‘too ambitious’ for small and medium companies. (4 marks)

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(b) Describe the principal matters that should be included in your firm’s submission to provide internal auditservices to RBG. (10 marks)

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(c) Describe the examination procedures you should use to verify Cusiter Co’s prospective financial information.(9 marks)

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(b) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act contains provisions for the attestation (verification) and reporting to shareholders ofinternal controls over financial reporting.Required:Describe the typical contents of an external report on internal controls. (8 marks)

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