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Exclusive Accountants' negligence and liability
  • 2021
  • Simon Salzedo, Tony Singla
  • Bloomsbury Publishing
An in-depth practical work covering all the main areas of accountants' legal liabilities in negligence claims, including audit liabilities to clients and others, tax and insolvency work and conflicts of interest. It covers accountants' negligence in relation to claims against accountants acting for corporations as well as accountants acting for individuals.This edition focuses on the difficult legal issues surrounding the liability of accountants in negligence claims. It covers statutory and non-statutory audits, tax advice, specified procedures reporting, due diligence reports and corporate f...
Exclusive Accounting best practices
  • 2013
  • Steven M. Bragg
  • John Wiley and Sons
Designed to assist anyone who needs to either improve the efficiency of the accounting department, reduce its error rates, or provide better information to other parts of a company. It includes chapters on accounts payable, billing, credit, collections, finance, general ledger, and general best practices. The book is written from an American perspective.
Exclusive Audit analytics: data science for the accounting profession
  • 2020
  • J. Christopher Westland
  • Springer
This book hopes to provide the reader with an inventory of basic algorithms which can be easily expanded and customized to fit an auditor's specific challenges. Accessible and comprehensive tools for these additional approaches are covered in this book, as are research approaches to take advantage of the additional explanatory power that these approaches offer to auditing. Coverage of software, methodologies, and fit statistics provide a concise reference for the conduct of audits, helping assure that audit opinions and decisions are defensible, fair, and accurate.
Exclusive Audit and assurance essentials for professional accountancy exams
  • 2013
  • Katharine Bagshaw
  • Wiley
Covers the key concepts of professional auditing and assurance syllabuses, including those of the ACCA and ICAEW among others, with the purpose of helping accountancy students pass audit and assurance papers. It is designed as a working primer in the basic concepts of audit and assurance, which are explained and illustrated in clear and simple terms.
Exclusive Audit planning
  • 2006
  • K.H. Pickett Spencer
  • Wiley
Guide to help auditors plan the audit process using a risk based approach. Chapters include basic planning techniques, using the corporate risk register, the annual audit plan, engagement planning, project management, keeping the accent on risk and a holistic approach to risk-based audit planning. Aims to provide new auditors principles and methodologies they can apply and to help experienced auditors enhance their skills for success in a rapidly changing business world.
Exclusive Beyond audit: auditing remotely and delivering value
  • 2021
  • Robert L. Mainardi
  • Wiley
Beyond Audit is your guide to taking advantage of this unique moment to review and enhance your audit methodology to improve execution, operations, and audit product. Change has been thrust upon the audit industry, and every company must adapt to business interruptions and remote work environments. Now is the perfect time for audit departments to step back and turn a critical eye on their own operations. We have an opportunity to identify new ways of increasing product offerings and building more effective and efficient operations, ultimately creating better results for our partners and client...
Exclusive Changing auditors
  • 2013
  • Mike Metcalf
  • ICSA Publishing
Selecting the right audit firm is an important choice. Running the tendering process and making the recommendation to the board in relation to the appointment of the external auditor is a fundamental part of the role of the audit committee, where one exists. However, auditor appointment is an important matter for shareholders as the auditor reports to them, and so the recommendation for appointment or re-appointment is ultimately for them to approve in general meeting.
Exclusive Complete guide to auditing standards, and other professional standards for accountants, The
  • 2008
  • Nick A. Dauber | Anique Ahmed Qureshi | Marc H. Levine | Joel G. Siegel
  • Wiley
Contains chapters on auditing standards of the PCAOB, auditing, attestation, accounting and review services, consulting services, quality control, tax services, personal financial planning, and the statement on standards for valuation services. The appendices contain cross-references to statements on audit and assurance standards.
Exclusive Core auditing standards for practitioners
  • 2014
  • Katherine Bagshaw, John Selwood
  • John Wiley and Sons
Designed to enhance auditors′ understanding of important international standards on auditing. Using examples, the book helps audit staff learn to form high–quality judgments with a thorough grounding in ISA to serve in discussions with file reviewers and audit inspectors.
Exclusive Count down: the past present and uncertain future of the big four accounting firms (2nd edition)
  • 2017
  • Jim Peterson
  • Emerald Publishing
The second edition of “Count Down” is revised to include and discuss developments affecting the Big Four and their business model since the December 2015 release of the first edition. Brought into this updated narrative, for example, are: The Big Four's growth to collective global 2016 revenue of $ 128 billion, and the continued disparities in growth between their Audit and Advisory practices. The imposition of mandatory auditor rotation by legislation and regulation in the European Union, and in the US, the PCAOB's requirement to name lead partners on public company audits. New examples of co...
Exclusive Enron and world finance: a case study in ethics
  • 2006
  • Paul H. Dembinski, Carole Lager, Andrew Cornford, Jean-Michel Bonvin
  • Palgrave Macmillan
The book takes an in-depth look at the issues of corporate governance, law and ethics involved in the Enron case, and of the policy responses to the recent corporate scandals in the USA and internationally. It contains chapters on international norms in business ethics, corporate governance failure, audit and assurance ethics, and corporate culture.
Exclusive Essential guide to internal auditing
  • 2011
  • K. H. Spencer Pickett
  • John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Complies with the Institute of Internal Auditor's (IIA) International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing. Provides a guide to the theory and practice of internal auditing.
Exclusive Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations
  • 2020
  • Mark J. Nigrini
  • Wiley
This book outlines a framework for and a systematic series of audit data analytics tests that should function well as a starting set of detective controls. The tests are not based on complicated statistics and should be quite easy to understand for anyone that has done well in a handful of accounting courses. The tests should be quite easy to execute for someone that knows the basics of Excel or Access and has an aptitude for learning new software packages like IDEA or SAS. The underlying logic for these detection-type tests is based on the fingerprints that a specific fraud would leave in the...
Exclusive Frequently Asked Questions in International Standards on Auditing
  • 2014
  • Steven Collings
  • John Wiley and Sons
Focuses on the main areas of the International Standards on Auditing and addresses key areas where audit firms are failing and which have been flagged up by audit regulators.
Exclusive History of auditing, A: the changing audit process in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present day
  • 2006
  • Derek Matthews
  • Routledge
The author draws on interviews, surveys and traditional documentary sources to trace the evolution of the modern audit process in Britain. He examines when certain audit techniques came into use and looks at the modern trends in the industry.
Exclusive Internal audit reports post Sarbanes-Oxley: a guide to process-driven reporting
  • 2007
  • Susan Switzer
  • John Wiley and Sons
Looks at the changes made by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the standards, rules and tools applicable to the internal audit process. Contains sections on process-driven reporting and report writing, and appendices with professional standards.
Exclusive Internal control audit and compliance: documentation and testing under the new COSO framework
  • 2015
  • Lynford Graham
  • Wiley
This book offers a guide and comprehensive reference to the newly revised framework established by COSO [Committee of Sponsoring Organisations]. The revised COSO framework provides standards and evaluation tools, which businesses and other entities rely on to evaluate their control systems... It presents the framework's principles and shows auditors and accounting managers how to document and test internal controls over financial reporting.
Exclusive Interpreting company reports and accounts
  • 2008
  • Geoffrey Holmes | Alan Sugden | Paul Gee
  • Financial Times Prentice Hall
Contains chapters on the regulatory scene and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), accounting principles, statements and review, auditors' reports, profit and loss, and the balance sheet. Includes special advice for small and medium-sized enterprises and a comparison of IFRS with UK GAAP.
Exclusive Modern internal auditing (8th edition)
  • 2016
  • Robert Moeller
  • John Wiley and Sons
This book is a complete guide and a definition of a common body of knowledge for the processes and profession of internal auditing - what professionals need to know to successfully perform individual internal audits and what an enterprise needs to know to launch an effective internal audit function.
Exclusive Not-for-profit audit committee best practices
  • 2006
  • Warren Ruppel
  • John Wiley and Sons
Advice for the operation of audit committees in charities and other non-profit organisations. Chapters cover financial reporting, fraud, internal audit, and the audit committee's relationship with the independent auditor.
Exclusive Pareto's 80/20 rule for corporate accountants
  • 2007
  • David Parmenter
  • John Wiley and Sons
Aimed at corporate accountants. The chapters provide detailed advice on accounting, audit and assurance best practice. The book includes tips for implementing change to make business operations more efficient.
Exclusive Practitioner's guide to GAAS 2022: covering all SASs, SSAEs, SSARSs, and interpretations
  • 2022
  • Joanne M. Flood
  • Wiley
This book reduces the official language of Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs), Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs), Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs), and the interpretations of those standards into easy-to-read and understandable advice.
Exclusive Practitioner's guide to GAAS: covering all SASs, SSAEs, SSARSs, and interpretations
  • 2020
  • Joanne M. Flood
  • Wiley
A comprehensive guide to GAAS for 2020, covering critical auditing standards, practices, and procedures.
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