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Communication and Auditing: A Step-by-Step Guide, 1st Edition. Melanie McKay & Elizabeth Rosa (South-Western, 2004).

Prepare your auditing students for the communication demands they will face in the professional accounting workplace with Communication and Auditing: A Step-by-Step Guide, by McKay and Rosa, Authors of The Accountant’s Guide to Professional Communication.

Now more than ever before, your accounting graduates are expected to possess excellent communication skills. Communication and Auditing: A Step-by-Step Guide exposes your auditing students to the types of communication that take place in the real world of auditing practice. Communication situations and examples are modeled on actual samples obtained from auditing professionals working in both large and small firms.

Clikeman - Called to Account

06/09/2010

Called to Account: Fourteen Financial Frauds that Shaped the American Accounting Profession. Paul M. Clikeman (Routledge, 2009).

Called to Account is written to be both entertaining and educational. Fourteen chapters disclose the tricks fraudsters such as “Crazy Eddie” Antar and “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap used to fool their auditors. Fourteen related chapters describe the public accounting profession and explain how each scandal shaped accounting and auditing standards. The book is intended to supplement a traditional auditing textbook and provide students greater insight into the history and current practice of public accounting. One student remarked while reading it, “The book was so much fun I forgot I was reading accounting.”

Kerr, Elder & Arens - Integrated Practice Set

06/09/2010

Integrated Audit Practice Case, 5th Edition. David Kerr, Randy Elder & Al Arens (Armond Dalton, 2011).

A manual audit practice case to help students learn to solve audit problems by applying knowledge from different sources. Completing Integrated Audit Practice Case is ideal preparation for students to learn these skills. Students are required to use a wide variety of information to make audit decisions and integrate that information throughout an audit.

Morris & Jones - Valley Publishing Company

06/09/2010

Comprehensive Audit Case: The Valley Publishing Company, 12th Edition. William Morris Jr. & Ambrose Jones III (Armond Dalton, 2011).

A simulated audit of a small town newspaper publishing company designed to illustrate the principles of audit field work and basic workpaper preparation. The focus is on documentation for the achievement of audit objectives and on communication of findings.

Ingraham & Jenkins - Integrated Practice Set

06/09/2010

Assurance Practice Set for Comprehensive Assurance & Systems Tool (CAST) – Integrated Practice Set, 2nd Edition. Laura Ingraham & J. Greg Jenkins (Pearson, 2010).

The Assurance module provides students hands-on experience with fundamental elements of financial statement assurance. This module is comprised of components related to the client acceptance decision, understanding the business environment, understanding and testing internal controls, assessing risks and materiality, conducting substantive tests, evaluating attorney's letters, performing analytical review procedures, and determining the appropriate audit opinion. These components build upon one another and should be completed in the order in which they are presented.

Trussel & Frazer - Lakeside Company

06/09/2010

Lakeside Company: Case Studies in Auditing, 12th Edition. John Trussel & J. Douglas Frazer (Pearson, 2012).

For undergraduate/graduate courses in auditing. The cases in The Lakeside Company create a realistic view of auditing by putting abstract concepts into practice.

Jack Paul - Peach Blossom Cologne

06/09/2010

Peach Blossom Cologne Company with CD, 4th Edition. Jack W. Paul (McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2007).

The fourth edition of the Peach Blossom Cologne Company Audit Case contains many new features, most significantly exercises dealing with the audit of internal control over financial reporting. Optional exercises simulate the planning phase of a real audit, including preparation of an engagement letter, completing a time budget, and conducting analytical procedures. In analyzing the potential problems uncovered by analytical procedures, students are required to provide an analysis of risks and a discussion of those accounts that may present potential problems. The optional internal control flowcharting exercises are based on the client’s computer system. Two statistical sampling exercises are included: an attributes sampling application and a variables sampling exercise using dollar-unit (PPS) sampling. New to this edition is a table that cross-references exhibits to their related assignments. Additionally, students are provided a CD that contains working paper templates enabling students to complete some or all of the working papers electronically. For those instructors who would like to provide audit programs to their students, a CD containing audit programs is available. Students can use these programs as a starting point for developing their own audit programs.

Beasley et al.

06/09/2010

Auditing Cases: An Interactive Learning Approach, 5th Edition. Mark Beasley, Frank Buckless, Steven Glover & Douglas Prawitt (Pearson, 2012).

For undergraduate and graduate Auditing, Professional Research Case or capstone courses. Auditing Cases, through a unique active learning approach, provides a comprehensive case book focusing on various auditing activities. Students learn to think critically and develop their interpersonal skills, which are increasingly important in the workplace. The fifth edition includes several new and updated cases.

Thibodeau & Freier

06/09/2010

Auditing and Accounting Cases: Investigating Issues of Fraud and Professional Ethics, 3rd Edition. Jay C. Thibodeau & Deborah Freier (McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2011).

The approach used by Thibodeau and Freier emphasizes the substantial benefits of using real-life case examples in helping to impart knowledge related to the practice of auditing. This type of approach has long been acknowledged as a superior manner in which to teach. Since the authors present the concepts of auditing using actual corporate contexts, they seek to provide students with a real-life appreciation of these issues and clearly demonstrate the value of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the post-Sarbanes technical audit guidance.

The Third Edition has been updated to reflect all of the major changes happening in today’s society with actual companies such as Enron, WorldCom, Qwest, Sunbeam, that have become synonymous with the capital markets’ crisis in confidence. With 45 different short cases, instructors can assign 8 to 9 different cases for each of four different semesters.