Reference no: EM131685

Auditing Project Overview: 

Case: 

You will be asked to address a accounting failure from AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP (A scandal took place in 2005).  The format of the project is that the you have been hired by the audit committee of a company with a accounting issue from American Insurance Group.  The audit committee desires guidance on how to address and resolve this issue. 

You are being hired by the company and are asked to provide the following: 

• Overview of the situation/accounting issue involved.
• Identification of the Areas of Risk
• Document summarizing possible mitigation of the risks
• Flowchart detailing the proposed flow of the resolution

Your analysis should include research of publically available information about that company and can also include assumptions which should be documented as such.  External research is encouraged.

Additional Items to Consider:

• Who was the whistleblower/how did the issue become public/how did the issue become public?
• How would it have been prevented.
• Where there any red flags.
• Should someone have caught it sooner.
• Analysis of financial statement footnotes the period before the issue became public
• Analysis of financial statement footnotes after the issue become public
• Rate the job of the auditor. What could the auditor have done better?
• Financial impact to shareholders/investors?
• Overall conclusion/observations/Recommendation - what did you take away from the case.