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Shining a light on the auditors
Every financial meltdown prompts a hunt for scapegoats. In the wake of the most recent one, calls to reform accounting have grown particularly loud, and action is on the way. In the coming months both America and the European Union are expected to introduce new rules aimed at enhancing auditors’ independence. But for all the heated debate over the changes, any improvement is likely to be modest.
America’s bean-counters were effectively self-regulating until 2002. That year, following a wave of accounting scandals, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act to reform corporate governance. It limited the consulting work firms could do for their audit clients and set up a new regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. At a meeting on December 4th it outlined three policies it expects toimplement by the end of 2014.
One aims to make audit reports more useful by requiring a section highlighting “critical audit matters” — the high-stakes judgment calls that keep accountants up at night, such as how the business being audited has valued its intangible assets. Another would cut the share of an audit that accounting firms can outsource without disclosure from 20% to 5%. Such information is valuable in emerging markets, where local accountants vary widely in quality. The most controversial reform would identify by name the lead partner responsible for each audit.
Although identifying partners does not increase their legal liability, it does put their reputation on the line. This seems to make accountants more cautious.
The Economist, December 7th 2013, p. 68 (adapted).
Judge the item below, based on the text above.
According to the text, Congress’ underlying motivation to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley act was its indignation over the shameful behaviour of some corporations in early 21st century.
 

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Amar, amar, amar, amar siempre,
con todo el ser y con la tierra y con el cielo,
con lo claro del sol y lo oscuro del lodo:
amar por toda ciencia y amar por todo anhelo.
Y cuando la montaña de la vida
nos sea dura y larga y alta y llena de abismos,
amar la inmensidad que es de amor encendido
¡y arder en la fusión de nuestros pechos mismos!
Rubén Darío. Amo, amas. Internet: <www.los-poetas.com> (con adaptaciones).
Juzgue lo siguiente ítem con base en el poema de arriba.
El vocablo “anhelo” significa un deseo efusivo de conseguir alguna cosa.
 

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Shining a light on the auditors
Every financial meltdown prompts a hunt for scapegoats. In the wake of the most recent one, calls to reform accounting have grown particularly loud, and action is on the way. In the coming months both America and the European Union are expected to introduce new rules aimed at enhancing auditors’ independence. But for all the heated debate over the changes, any improvement is likely to be modest.
America’s bean-counters were effectively self-regulating until 2002. That year, following a wave of accounting scandals, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act to reform corporate governance. It limited the consulting work firms could do for their audit clients and set up a new regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. At a meeting on December 4th it outlined three policies it expects toimplement by the end of 2014.
One aims to make audit reports more useful by requiring a section highlighting “critical audit matters” — the high-stakes judgment calls that keep accountants up at night, such as how the business being audited has valued its intangible assets. Another would cut the share of an audit that accounting firms can outsource without disclosure from 20% to 5%. Such information is valuable in emerging markets, where local accountants vary widely in quality. The most controversial reform would identify by name the lead partner responsible for each audit.
Although identifying partners does not increase their legal liability, it does put their reputation on the line. This seems to make accountants more cautious.
The Economist, December 7th 2013, p. 68 (adapted).
Judge the item below, based on the text above.
One of the premises of the text is that every time there is a sudden economic crisis, we tend to quickly try to find a culprit.
 

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Tarde de verão, é levado ao jardim na cadeira de braços — sobre a palhinha dura a capa de plástico e, apesar do calor, manta xadrez no joelho. Cabeça caída no peito, um fio de baba no queixo. Sozinho, regala-se com o trino da corruíra, um cacho dourado de giesta e, ao arrepio da brisa, as folhinhas do chorão faiscando — verde, verde! Primeira vez depois do insulto cerebral aquela ânsia de viver. De novo um homem, não barata leprosa com caspa na sobrancelha — e, a sombra das folhas na cabecinha trêmula, adormece. Gritos: Recolha a roupa. Maria, feche a janela. Prendeu o Nero? Rebenta com fúria o temporal. Aos trancos João ergue o rosto, a chuva escorre na boca torta. Revira em agonia o olho vermelho — é uma coisa, que a família esquece na confusão de recolher a roupa e fechar as janelas?

Dalton Trevisan. Ah, é? Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1994. p. 67 (com adaptações).

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O prazer proporcionado pela percepção sensorial de pássaro e plantas contribui para que o personagem se sinta revigorado e recupere sua autoestima.

 

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Shining a light on the auditors
Every financial meltdown prompts a hunt for scapegoats. In the wake of the most recent one, calls to reform accounting have grown particularly loud, and action is on the way. In the coming months both America and the European Union are expected to introduce new rules aimed at enhancing auditors’ independence. But for all the heated debate over the changes, any improvement is likely to be modest.
America’s bean-counters were effectively self-regulating until 2002. That year, following a wave of accounting scandals, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act to reform corporate governance. It limited the consulting work firms could do for their audit clients and set up a new regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. At a meeting on December 4th it outlined three policies it expects toimplement by the end of 2014.
One aims to make audit reports more useful by requiring a section highlighting “critical audit matters” — the high-stakes judgment calls that keep accountants up at night, such as how the business being audited has valued its intangible assets. Another would cut the share of an audit that accounting firms can outsource without disclosure from 20% to 5%. Such information is valuable in emerging markets, where local accountants vary widely in quality. The most controversial reform would identify by name the lead partner responsible for each audit.
Although identifying partners does not increase their legal liability, it does put their reputation on the line. This seems to make accountants more cautious.
The Economist, December 7th 2013, p. 68 (adapted).
Judge the item below, based on the text above.
In line 4, “bean-counters” is a derogatory expression used to describe second-class accountants who deal specifically with agribusiness.
 

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658694 Ano: 2014
Disciplina: Geologia
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Orgão: Câm. Deputados
No que concerne às bacias hidrográficas brasileiras, julgue o item subsequente.
Em seus altos e médios cursos, o rio São Francisco, principal rio da bacia do São Francisco, que se situa totalmente em áreas de planalto, corre no sentido geral sul-norte e, em seu baixo curso, no sentido leste-oeste.
 

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Ao vender Sochi como sede dos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 2014, o presidente russo Vladimir Putin prometeu uma experiência única: turistas e atletas poderiam esquiar nas montanhas, onde é muito frio, e mergulhar em piscinas abertas de hotéis, onde o clima é mais ameno, no mesmo dia. Sochi é famosa como estância de veraneio de milionários russos. Pelo fato de o clima na região ser subtropical, a temperatura prevista para a Olimpíada já estava no limite do aceitável para a prática de esportes na neve: no inverno, é esperada a média de 6 ºC na altura do mar Negro, que banha o litoral. O que atletas e turistas encontraram ao chegar a Sochi, porém, foi um cenário muito mais inusitado. O calor na altura do mar atinge 20ºC e, nas montanhas, 15 ºC. O calor intenso derreteu a neve nas pistas, forçou o cancelamento de treinos e prejudicou competições. Por trás dessa surpresa, um velho conhecido: o aquecimento global, fenômeno responsável por mudanças climáticas intensas que têm afetado o planeta no último século e que pôde ser notado em anomalias frequentes nessa última temporada de inverno no Hemisfério Norte e de verão, no Sul.

Alexandre Salvador e Raquel Beer. Cadê o frio? In: Veja, fev./2014 (com adaptações).

Julgue o próximo item, relativo aos sentidos e aspectos gramaticais do texto acima.

As orações “onde é muito frio” e “que banha o litoral” têm natureza explicativa, o que justifica o fato de estarem isoladas por vírgulas.

 

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653705 Ano: 2014
Disciplina: Geologia
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Orgão: Câm. Deputados
No que concerne às bacias hidrográficas brasileiras, julgue o item subsequente.
No que se refere ao volume armazenado de água per capita, abregião hidrográfica do Tocantins-Araguaia é maior do Brasil, seguida das regiões hidrográficas do Atlântico Sul e Amazônica.
 

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Texto para lo ítem.
Tenía yo catorce años y estudiaba Humanidades. Un día sentí unos deseos rabiosos de hacer versos, y de enviárselos a una muchacha muy linda, que se había permitido darme calabazas. Me encerré en mi cuarto, y allí en la soledad, después de inauditos esfuerzos, condensé como pude, en unas cuantas estrofas, todas las amarguras de mi alma. Cuando vi, en una cuartilla de papel, estaban aquellos rengloncitos cortos tan simpáticos; cuando los leí en alta voz y consideré que mi cacumen los había producido, se apoderó de mí una sensación deliciosa de vanidad y orgullo. Inmediatamente pensé en publicarlos en La Calavera, único periódico que entonces había, y se los envié al redactor, bajo una cubierta y sin firma. Mi objeto era saborear las muchas alabanzas de que sin duda serían objeto, y sin decir modestamente quién era el autor, cuando mi amor propio se hallara satisfecho.
Pocos días después, sale el número 5 de La Calavera, y mis versos no aparecen en sus columnas. Los publicarán inmediatamente en el número 6, dije para mi capote, y me resigné a esperar porque no había otro remedio. Pero ni en el número 6, ni en el 7, ni en el 8, ni en los que siguieron había nada que tuviera apariencias de versos. Casi desesperaba ya de que mi primera poesía saliera de molde, cuando caten ustedes que el número 13 de La Calavera puso colmo a mis deseos.
Los que no creen en Dios, creen a puño cerrado en cualquier cosa; por ejemplo, que el número 13 es fatídico. Yo creo en Dios, pero también creo en la fatalidad del número 13. Apenas llegó a mis manos La Calavera, me puse de veinticinco alfileres, y me lancé a la calle, con el objeto de recoger elogios, llevando conmigo el famoso número 13.
Rubén Darío. Mis primeros versos. Internet: <http://mypage.direct.ca> (con adaptaciones).
Con relación a las ideas y estructuras lingüísticas del texto, juzgue lo ítem subsiguiente.
El número 13 le trajo suerte al escritor, de forma que no le resultó fatal.
 

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As far back as 4000 B.C., historians believe, formal record-keeping systems were first instituted by organized businesses and governments in the Near East to allay their concerns about correctly accounting for receipts and disbursements and collecting taxes. Similar developments occurred with respect to the Zhao dynasty in China (1122-256 B.C.). The need for and indications of audits can be traced back to public finance systems in Babylonia, Greece, the Roman Empire, the City States of Italy, etc., all of which developed a detailed system of checks and counterchecks. Specifically, these governments were worried about incompetent officials prone to making bookkeeping errors and inaccuracies as well as corrupt officials who were motivated to perpetrate fraud whenever the opportunity arose. Even the Bible (referring to the period between 1800 B.C. and A.D. 95) explains the basic rationale for instituting controls rather straightforwardly: “…if employees have an opportunity to steal they may take advantage of it.” The Bible also contains examples of good internal control practices, such as dual custody of assets, restriction of access to assets, and segregation of duties, as well as examples of the need for competent and honest employees. Historically then, the emergence of double-entry bookkeeping in circa 1494 A.D. can be directly traced to the critical need for exercising stewardship and control. Throughout European history, for instance, fraud cases — such as the South Sea bubble of the 18th century, and the tulip scandal — provided the justification for exercising more control over managers.
S. Ramamoorti. Internal auditing: history, evolution, and prospects. p. 3. Internet: <https://na.theiia.org> (adapted).
According to the text above, judge the following item.
People have inherited from the Bible the notion that auditing is necessary because of the inherently dishonest nature of human beings.
 

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