How to Avoid Audit Failure (Third Edition)

Author: Lin Bingcang
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book is highly practical and can serve as a reference tool for practicing accountants and general auditors. It can also be used as supplementary teaching material or a reference book for students in accounting departments and graduate programs in universities and research institutes. The main content of the book includes audit risk, Why Audits Fail - Part One, Why Audits Fail - Part Two, Errors and Fraud, Management Fraud, Considerations of Fraud When Auditing Financial Statements, Auditors' Professional Judgment, Good Professional Judgment as an Important Asset for Auditors, Client Continuity, Revenue Recognition, Observation of Inventory Counts, Post-Closing Events, Number Games, Materiality Principle, Loyalty to Clients?, Case Studies of Misstated Financial Statements, and Guidelines for Assessing the Risk of Financial Statement Misstatement.
The book begins by exploring the structure of audit risk, examines why audits fail, and then references data from advanced countries to list the considerations auditors have when auditing financial statements and how to investigate misstated financial statements. For practicality, the book specially collects and introduces some famous fraud cases, reviewing audit deficiencies to serve as a self-corrective measure for auditors. The content of this book is highly practical and can serve as a reference tool for practicing accountants and general auditors, as well as supplementary teaching material or a reference book for students in accounting departments and graduate programs in universities and research institutes.