BUS-4072_FouchTashia_Week5Assignment

On February 12 Peg Jones, vice president for operations and maintenance, called into Stephen’s office and asked to study the issue. Specially, Stephen wanted to know whether the average fleet age was correlated to direct airframe maintenance costs, and whether there was a relationship between average fleet age and direct engine maintenance costs. Peg was to report back by February 26 with the answer, along with quantitative and graphical descriptions of the relationship. Peg’s first step was to have her staff construct the average age of Northern and Southeast B727-300 fleets, by quarter, since the introduction of that aircraft to service by each airline in late 1993 and 1994. The average age of each fleet was calculated by first multiplying the total number of calendar days each aircraft had been in service at the pertinent point in time by the average daily utilization of the respective fleet to total fleet hours flown. The total fleet hours was then dividend by the number of…

Question 3 a) Auditors need to identify audit risk in planning an audit engagement. In doing so, the audit risk model may be adopted. Write the audit risk model in the two common ways it is often used by auditor. Each risk should be written in the model or named clearly for any abbreviations used. Explain inherent risk, control risk and planned detection risk respectively.

Question No 3:   Rectify the error if any in the following in-text citation based on APA guidelines.   Perceived risk, which is defined as an individual’s degree of expected uncertainty associated with the result of using a certain technology (Tan and Lau, 2016). It includes five main groupings: service performance, monetary, time, societal and security risks (Jacoby and Kaplan, 1972; Mha, 2015). Perceived risks in turn increase consumer hesitation and generate negative attitudes toward a service (Kalaiarasi and Srividya, 2012). This breeds a sense of anxiety and unease that in turn decreases the perceived value and usefulness of a technology, thereby diminishing adoption intentions (Kumar, Arcand, Tai, 2012). Indeed, as stated by (Kazi and Mannan, 2013), electronic banking applications are associated with high perceived risks because consumers fear the exchange of personal financial information and services through online applications Moreover, studies have indicated that a high…

Seven Essential Elements of An Effective Compliance Program include: Question 21 options:   A-Establishing Compliance Standards of Conduct and Procedures   B-Overall Compliance Program Oversight   C-Due Care in Delegation of Authority   D-Monitoring and Auditing Systems   E-All of the Above

Question 1 (i) What are the 5 components of the COSO framework? A. Risk assessment, control environment, control activities, information and communication, monitoringB. Control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, monitoring.C. Control activities, monitoring, information and communication, control environment monitoringD. Control activities, control environment, risk assessment, monitoring, information and communication (ii) An opinion which is given by the auditor when the financial statements give a true and fair view except for a particular matter, which the auditor explains is called:A. An adverse opinionB. An unmodified opinionC. A qualified opinionD. A disclaimer opinion (iii) Which of the following is NOT a reason why linking reward to performance may not solve remuneration problems?A. Unsuitable measures of performance may be selected B. Many performance measures are based on the short term resultsC. Remuneration systems are normally…

Question TWO: i. Identify and explain the Major Steps involved in budgeting                                            ii. What do you understand by business forecasting?  and state         the challenges  faced in forecasting

Period (t) Enrollment (1000s) 1 6.5 2 8.1 3 8.4 4 10.2 5 12.5 6 13.3 7 13.7 8 17.2 9 18.1 Develop a linear regression with a dependent variable of “Enrollment (1000s). A.What is the value of R square? (Make sure two decimal places.) B.What is the value of intercept? (Make sure two decimal places.) C.What is the coefficient value of Period (t)? (Make sure two decimal places.) D.Is the coefficient of Period (t) significant? (Yes:1, No: 0) E.What is the forecast for year 10?