Research on Audit expectations

Research on Audit expectations

Academic level:University Level, Bachelor’s

Referencing style:Harvard

Number of sources:5

Subject:Accounting

Client country:United Kingdom (UK English)

Assignment extract:
You are a new graduate who has been appointed as a researcher for a Member of Parliament. The Member of Parliament will be making a speech to an audience of business leaders soon and, aware that you are a recent graduate from the University of Leeds is keen to make use of your academic and research capabilities. He has heard of the audit expectation – performance gap and is planning to make this the subject of his forthcoming speech, but wants to ensure he has a full understanding of the issue first. Therefore, he asks you to investigate and write him a report, including up-to-date information and insightful comment, on the following:

“The audit expectation – performance gap can be eliminated by amending Auditing Standards to require statutory auditors to perform sufficient work to meet society’s expectations in full.”
1.Marks will be awarded for quality of reasoning as well as demonstrated research skills. That is, the overall quality of your report will be judged primarily on the presentation of alternative views, the quality of argument (i.e. the logical flow of your arguments leading to a conclusion) and the quality of evidence cited to support the preferred and opposing viewpoints.

2.The body of the essay should provide suitable contextual information, relevant information and arguments for and against statements made, and a conclusion (supported by key reasons). Any detailed information that supports material presented in the body of your report should be placed in appendices.

3:All references used or quoted must be properly referenced (this includes material sourced from the internet). In the body of the text note the author whose ideas you are citing or whose words you are quoting. In brackets note the author and year of the reference used and, when quoting, also cite the page number (for example, Flint, 1988, p.54).

4:If a reference has more than two authors, cite all authors the first time the reference is referred to but subsequently cite only the first author and use ‘et.al’ in place of the other authors’ names. All references cited in the body of your essay (but only those references) should be listed in full at the end of your essay (but before any appendices) under the heading References. The references should be listed in alphabetical order showing the authors’ surname, then initials – then a full stop. Next, in brackets, show the year of the reference, followed by another full stop. Then put the title of the journal article (or book) in full, followed by the name of the journal, the volume and issue number.

For example:
• Brown, R. (1905). History of Accounting and Accountants. London: Jack.
• Chandler, R.A., Edwards, J.R. & Anderson, M. (1993). Changing perceptions of the role of the company auditor, 1840-1940. Accounting and Business Research, 23(92), 443-459.