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1.“Testing Methods” Please respond to the following:

• According
  to the text, to minimize the risk of material misstatement, auditors
  seek third- party verification of account balances by mailing customers
  their statements. Discuss the advantages of positive and negative
  confirmations, and ascertain whether or not email and oral confirmations
  are acceptable to increase customer response rates. Support your
  position.
• Discuss the difference between substantive test of
  transactions and substantive test of balances, and identify at least two
  (2) situations when an auditor should test account balances. Support
  your rationale with related examples of such circumstances

2. “Audit Wrap-Up” Please respond to the following:

• Create
  a scenario that demonstrates specific ways in which management could
  manipulate transactions impacting inventory values that the auditing
  team might not detect. Recommend key strategies that the auditor could
  implement in anticipation of such manipulation. Justify your response.
• Discuss
  the difference between a subsequent event and a subsequent discovery of
  facts, and determine the auditor’s responsibility for each event after
  the audit report is complete. Support your position.

3. “Segment and Interim Reporting” Please respond to the following:

• Determine
  the major differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS disclosure reporting
  requirements related to each separately reportable operating segment.
  Next, give your opinion as to whether either U.S. GAAP or IFRS
  disclosures provide financial statement users the most useful
  information for investment or credit decisions. Provide support for your
  choice.
• Speculate on at least three (3) accounting problems
  that exist under U.S. GAAP related to interim financial reports. Next,
  suggest at least one (1) approach to overcome each listed problem.
  Provide a rationale for your response.

4. “Formation, Operation, Termination and Liquidation of Partnerships” Please respond to the following:

• Assume
  that John, James, and Jane are considering creating a legal business
  entity to develop and market their idea for a web application. Recommend
  the most appropriate type of business activity (i.e., a general
  partnership, a limited liability partnership, or a limited liability
  company) for them to form. Provide a rationale for your response.
• Determine
  the main purpose of a statement of realization and liquidation, and
  discuss the major information that the primary parties can gain from a
  statement of realization and liquidation in order to grasp the major
  events of the liquidation process. Next, suggest the most critical
  information to disseminate to the partners and creditors during
  liquidation. Justify your response.

5.  “Community Efforts and Managing Public Relations (PR)”  Please respond to the following:

• You
  are a new PR intern at Apple. Apple is donating 200 iPads to a local
  inner-city school to promote technology in education. As a PR intern,
  you need to get the word out about this event. In your discussion post,
  compose a tweet (a tweet is 140 characters or less) and a Facebook post
  (200-250 words) creating awareness for the event.

In this activity, you will imagine that a room in your house or an area of your yard or driveway is a crime scene.

In Part 1, you will stage your crime scene. You will imagine where evidence might be and place markers to represent the evidence. In Part 2, you will measure your crime scene and the location of your evidence. You should also make notes both on your notepad and later on the rough sketch if necessary. In Part 3, you will use the measurements to draw a rough sketch of your crime scene. Choose either an overhead view or a cross-projection for your rough sketch. You will then use your rough sketch to create a finished, scaled sketch in Part 4.

must come up with own information, rough sketch of crime scene and final sketch plus all the details.

The 3 word docs that i attached are the instructions and the grid paper needed to do the assignment, please open all of them. 

The powerpoint is another way of telling u step by step instructions.

Important components of IS model include: hardware, software, networking, people, and data. The total cost of information systems in an organization is the sum of the cost of each component of this IS model.

Mishawaka Sales Company (MSC) is a direct marketing company involved in sales and distribution of a range of products in the Mid-West. MSC wants to provide better operational support to its sales representatives (SR) by providing each of its 800 SRs a laptop computer. The lifespan of each laptop is assumed to be five years with zero residual value and the cost of each laptop is $1200. Each laptop needs operational software worth of $500 in the beginning. Second year onwards, each laptop will need software upgrades costing $100 per laptop each year. Each new SR needs to enroll in a training program costing $200 per SR when this SR is hired. Statistics Data show that in each year (from the 1st year to the 5th year) about 10% of SRs quit their jobs and the same number of new SRs are hired each year (*). When a SR leaves, his/her laptop will be used by the new SR who takes over the job. So no new laptops will be needed after the first year. These newSRs need to enroll in the same training program. Based on historical data, MSC knows that 2% of laptops will need repair every year and the cost of a laptop repair is $800 per incident. Determine the total cost of ownership (TCO) for this operational automation project at MSC. 

Hint: though you are asked to calculate “total cost”, think about each component (e.g., laptop, software, …) first and figure out how to calculate the cost of each component.

(*) Therefore, 880 (=800+80) new SRs are hired in year 1, and 80 new SRs are hired in each year from year 2 to year 5.

use the excel.