Auditing

This study adds both knowledge and method in the writing of business history. The author proposes that a preliminary management audit can be devised and utilized to gather data, analyse and compare longitudinally the quality of management existing in organizations. This book modifies a methodologica..

Despite the rhetoric PPP/PFI contracts tend to create a context where dispute and litigation rather than partnership are the norm. In this environment, effective auditing is essential to ensure that projects are delivering what the end-user requires. Performance Auditing of Public Sector Property ..

This book gives a flavour of the issues that concerned auditing practitioners more than one hundred years ago and which retain a certain relevance to us today. The material is arranged chronologically and thereby emphasizes the interconnections between the issues as well as conveying the overall dep..

Although there has been increased emphasis on research that attempts to understand, evaluate and improve audit decision making in recent years it is less well-known that some noteworthy contributions to the study of audit judgment were made in the 1950s and 1960s. This anthology contains five such c..

Accounting for risk has taken on dramatically increasing importance since the onset of the global financial crisis. This comprehensive volume provides an overview of the entire field._x005F_x000D_ Key themes such as corporate governance, trust, pensions, uncertainty and Islamic finance are covered b..

This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline of auditing, including emerging and cutting-edge information, and is based upon extant research. It covers the issues that are important and controversial, and will inform future reforms to the auditing profession based on research...