ASSIGNMENT 1: INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
Due date : 31 August
2016 by 23.00 hours Weighting : 20%
Length : 1,000 words ± 10%
(excluding references)
Ø Students
are required to select an ethical and/ or legal issue encountered by auditors,
and collect a minimum of five relevant articles from media and or academic
journals. You are then required to analyse the auditing issue from the
perspective of agency theory and common good with particular reference to
auditors’ role in the issue.
Your report should cover the following:
1. A brief overview of the topic as covered in the article
including the nature of the auditing
issue
2. Identification of ethical issues, stakeholders and their
financial and non-financial
consequences on stakeholders
3. Analysis of the problem in the context of relevant
ethical theories and agency theory
4. Making
recommendations so as to ensure a similar incidence does not recur and thus the
accounting profession contributes to the common good.
Remember to attach to your report the copies of articles you
have selected.
Your report should consist of the following sections:
? Assignment cover sheet
?
Introduction ?
Table of contents ?
Introduction ?
Body (answers to
questions) ?
Conclusion(s) ?
References
