Auditing and Assurance Services 9th Edition by Alvin Arens,Mark Beasley,Randy Elder

Exercise 10

Many companies post their financial statements and auditor's report on their home pages, generally under a heading labeled "investor relations." Use one of the Internet search engines to do the following:
a. Visit Intel's (www.intel.com) and Microsoft's (www.microsoft.com) home pages and review their financial statements, including their auditors' reports.
b. Search the web for the home page of a non-U.S. company and review its financial statements, including its auditor's report. For example, BMW's home page (www.bmwgroup.com, under Investor Relations) allows a visitor to download the financial statements as a.pdf file. Identify the auditing standards followed by the company's auditors.
c. Compare the standard U.S. audit report with the audit report for the non-U.S. company (e.g., BMW). Note that in some cases, non-U.S.-based companies' reports use a U.S. audit report.
d. Visit the SEC's website (www.sec.gov), and find the link for EdgarScan. Find, download, and print the auditor's report for a U.S. company of your choice. Identify whether or not the audit report is an unqualified, or "clean," opinion and explain how you could tell.