Auditing

Written by experts from all over the world, A Handbook of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility is the most authoritative single-volume guide to the relationship between good governance and social responsibility and the reality of managing both. In addition to the theory and practice of gov..

This book explores accounting for biological assets under IAS 41 – Agriculture, and explains the recent adjustments introduced by the IASB which allow firms to choose between cost or revaluation models concerning mature bearer plants. Identifying the firm and country-level drivers that explain discl..

In Audit Effectiveness, Dr Kamil Omoteso examines how growing use of information technology is changing the audit profession. IT tools and techniques continue to be developed to enable the auditing process to match current IT standards in accounting and elsewhere. Auditing tools include general busi..

This book will provide a unique insight into the role of auditing teams on audit quality. It will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students in auditing, as well as to practitioners and regulators in the field...

Auditing Theory provides an innovative theory of auditing underpinning auditing practice, using the method of conceptual enquiry. It offers new insights into the nature of materiality, evidence, professional judgement, and scepticism in auditing...

Auditors' independence has been called into question in the light of their being complicit in some of the corporate misbehaviour exposed in recent years. Here, the author examines the historical role of auditing in corporate governance and the regulatory context. He sets the function within a theore..

This book sheds light on the nature of the late nineteenth century audit by reference to the views expressed in 26 legal cases. The treatment of late nineteenth century legal issues which might appear somewhat unbalanced, viewed from today’s stand-point, is shown to be more even handed when seen aga..

Bringing creativity and innovation into all professions and types of auditing today, this book meets the needs of auditing practices in the future. Jeffrey Ridley studies all auditing practices, not just internal auditing, using an innovation model he has developed through research which is applicab..

This book takes a closer look at performance auditing of public sector environmental policies and programs. It examines trends in global environmental performance auditing and how it is currently practiced, drawing on case studies from Canada, India and Australia. In doing so, it defines future issu..

Inside Accounting examines how accountants and non-accounting managers construct their company's earnings. As well as considering the accounting structure such as budgeting and financial control, David Leung looks at how people prepare for and facilitate the audit, and how a person's professional ex..

Inside Accounting examines how accountants and non-accounting managers construct their company's earnings. As well as considering the accounting structure such as budgeting and financial control, David Leung looks at how people prepare for and facilitate the audit, and how a person's professional ex..

This important book offers a way of improving the value of control and risk management by bringing creativity and design skills to the fore. It provides an arsenal of 60 high performance control mechanisms, including several alternative ways to design controls and control systems, controls for monit..