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Safeguards to Independence
One of the best safeguards to independence is to withdraw from the audit engagement entirely. Fortunately, that’s not the only solution.
The Self-Interest Threat
In order to keep their jobs, auditors must moderate the information in their audit reports. This creates a self-interest threat to independence.
Parallelism and Paul Simon
Make your audit reports more dynamic by using parallelism: Similar words, phrases, bulleted lists and other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence.
Why Do We Need Auditing Standards?
Why do we need auditing standards? Because we need someone at work that we can trust to tell us the truth. If you need to know the truth about something important with your health, do you ask your uncle the plumber, for his opinion? “Hey Unc, I’ve been having this weird pain in my chest […]
Red Book vs. Yellow Book
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA answers the question, “Should I adopt the IIA Red Book, or the GAO Yellow Book for my audit shop?”
When Is the GAO Yellow Book Applicable?
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA discusses when to apply the GAO Yellow Book to your audit.
What is the job of an auditor?
Maybe the dog will listen to you describe auditor independence, audit subject matter, audit criteria and audit deliverables. Auditors, I suggest you keep your job title on the down-low when meeting someone new at a party. Why? Because just as soon as you reveal you are an auditor, your new acquaintance will get very quiet. […]
Ethical guidelines for auditors
The GAO’s ethical guidelines for auditors remind us who we are and why we do what we do. And this is a very good thing, because it is easy to get balled up in the details of our day-to-day work and, forgetting the bigger picture of who we are and what we do, take the […]
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