Auditing Case Studies

This case history shows Arthur Andersen and the collapse of the firm after the Enron Corp. audit and the Department of Justice conviction of obstruction of justice. “Hide by David F. Hawkins, Jacob Cohen Source: Harvard Business School 17 pages. Publication Date: 13 February 2003. Prod. #: 103061-PDF-ENG

The experience of the audit committee chairmen in response to and implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Learning Objective:. To help students understand the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on audit committees’ Hide by Jay W. Lorsch Source: Harvard Business School 3 pages. Publication Date: 04 May 2004. Prod. #: 404139-PDF-ENG

Additive (A) case. “Hide by Ashish Nanda, Lauren Prusiner Source: HBS 7 pages. Publication Date: October 13, 2004. Prod. #: 905020-PDF-ENG

It is difficult to start a business periodical today and find news cuts, spending cuts, explosive growth, or wide deviation from quarterly forecasts of state enterprises. Volume flexibility enables companies to effectively use limited resources for optimal use with the ups and downs of demand. The main problems in the development of flexible response associated […]

Grupo Martica commissions expert in computer security for the audit of its systems, networks and processes. This check shows that Martica quite vulnerable, and the de facto CIO of the company to decide what steps to take to improve security. He wonders how complex, closely related systems, such as computers can never be safe and […]