Auditing has become an essential component in market societies and the need for auditing skills has risen in line with globalization. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the role of financial statement auditing in contemporary society, including the auditor’s role in evaluating the financial reporting of an auditee—a topic of central concern in the recent comprehensive review of the auditing profession in the Brydon Report (2019). The experienced authors provide insight into auditing research to help readers understand its function, regulation, and role in theory and practice. With focus on private sector financial statement auditing and its regulation, the book includes perspectives on social theory, history, and the importance of professional standards. The thought-provoking final chapter challenges students to consider the effectiveness of auditing in evaluating increasingly risky and complex accounting estimates involving assumptions about future events. A fundamental approach to auditing theory, this textbook will be useful reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students across business and accounting fields.

In The Closing of the Auditor’s Mind?, author David J. O’Regan describes internal auditing as an important "binding agent" of social cohesion, for the accountability of individuals and organizations and also at aggregated levels of social trust. However, O’Regan also reveals that internal auditing faces two severe challenges – an external challenge of adaptation and an internal challenge of fundamental reform. The adaptation challenge arises from ongoing, paradigmatic shifts in accountability and social trust. The command- and- control, vertical hierarchies of traditional bureaucracies are being replaced in importance by networked, flattened patterns of accountability. The most challenging assurance demands of the modern era are increasingly located in three institutional domains – in the inner workings of organizations; in intermediary spaces at organizational boundaries; and in extra-mural locations. Internal auditing continues to cling, barnacle- like, to the inner workings of traditional, bureaucratic structures, and it has little to offer the emerging assurance demands on or beyond institutional boundaries. The reform challenge arises from internal auditing’s prevailing tendency toward a rigid, algorithmic, checklist mindset that suppresses practitioners’ creativity and critical thinking. This trend is increasingly narrowing internal auditing’s intellectual and moral horizons. Under the pressures of these challenges, internal auditing is struggling to fulfil its primary purpose of serving the public interest. O’Regan’s powerful book focuses on: The redistribution of social trust from traditional, hierarchical institutions to diffuse, horizontally distributed networks The perennial validity of the classical virtues as the humane foundation of professional activity The role of creative expertise in promoting professional wisdom The Closing of the Auditor’s Mind? is a philosophical audit of a profession on the threshold of crisis. The book presupposes no prior knowledge of philosophy, nor indeed of auditing. Philosophical technicalities are contained in an Appendix, leaving the main text jargon-free. O’Regan provides original and striking perspectives on the malaise of modern internal auditing, and he proposes radical remedies. This captivating and well-informed book is a must-read for all who are concerned with our collective socio-economic and political well-being.

Who can buy? Students pursuing B.Com, BBA, M.Com, MBA and other commerce as well as the students taking professional exam conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants. It is according to the syllabus of various universities. Advanced Auditing book is different from all other books. Each topic is addressed in a simple and clear fashion. The book contains the latest approach to the practice and changes in the legislation. The basic motto is to generate interest in the subject in the mind of the students and prepare them for their examinations. The book seeks to provide a thorough understanding of the theoretical and practical concepts of advanced auditing. The book contains the latest information about the subject in a broad manner, sensible way and simple language. Every best effort has been made to include the questions asked in various examinations in different years. The subject matter of this book is prepared scientifically and analytically.

1. Origin and Growth of Auditing, 2. Meaning, Definition and Scope of Auditing, 3. Objects and Advantages of Auditing, 4. Classification of Audit, 5. Technique, Preparation and Procedure of Audit, 6. Internal Control, Check and Audit, 7 . Vouching, 8. Capital and Revenue Expenditure, 9. Valuation of Assets and Liabilities, 10 . Verification of Assets and Liabilities, 11. Depreciation, Provision and Reserve, 12. Appointment, Qualifications, Remuneration, Rights and Duties of an Auditor, 13. Liabilities of a Company Auditor, 14. Profits, Divisible Profits and Dividends, 15. Company Audit, 16. Audit of Different Institutions, 17. Auditor’s Report and Certificate, 18. Investigation, 19. New Trends in Auditing, 20. Standards on Auditing, 21. Audit of Computerized Accounts. Appendix : Audit Case Laws.

This book identifies drivers of transformation of auditing, including regulation, digitalisation, sustainability, and individual auditor characteristics, and discusses how the drivers affect auditing. It provides a holistic perspective, discussing these current and highly relevant themes in depth and ‘one by one’ and also stresses the importance of the temporal dimension, i.e., offering a historical and a present-day perspective. The book covers several different theoretical perspectives when analysing and discussing how the various drivers affect auditors, the audit process, accounting firms, stakeholders and so on. Sweden is used as a setting to study the effects of these drivers of transition. The Swedish experience is generalisable to other European countries, with a Germanic origin currently influenced by Anglo-American ideas of auditing. In addition, Sweden provides a research setting with unique access to empirical data. The monograph is unique in its broad coverage of drivers of transformation, combined with its clear focus on financial auditing. It is informed by a wide range of research approaches, from qualitative interview studies to recently developed machine learning methods. Readers, therefore, benefit from a comprehensive understanding of current changes in the audit industry. This will be a useful reference work for students of accounting and auditing, as well as for audit practitioners, including both auditors and regulators, and for researchers.

The Auditing is authored by proficient Professors. The Text of the Auditing is simple and lucid. The contents of the book has been organised carefully and to the point strictly written in accordance with the syllabus based on Choice Based on The Copanies Act,2013. 1. Introduction, 2. Objects, Advantages and Limitations of Auditing, 3. Types or Classification of Audit, 4. Audit Process and Programme, 5. Internal Control, Check and Audit, 6. Vouching, 7. Verification of Assets and Liabilities, 8. Valuation of Assets and Liabilities, 9. Depreciation, Provisions and Reserves, 10. Capital and Revenue Expenditure, 11. Company Auditor, 12. Divisible Profits and Dividends, 13. Audit of the Company or Company Audit, 14. Audit of Specialised Institutions, 15 . Audit Report, 16. Audit of Non-Profit Companies and Other Businesses, 17. Investigation, 18. Recent Trends in Auditing, 19. Cost Audit, 20. Management Audit, 21. Tax Audit, 22. Standards on Auditing, 23. Audit Under Computerised Information System (CIS)Environment, 24. Audit Case Laws.

Auditing 1. Origin and Growth of Auditing, 2. Meaning, Definition and Scope of Auditing, 3 . Objects and Advantages of Auditing, 4. Classification of Audit, 5. Technique, Preparation and Procedure of Audit, 6. Internal Control, Check and Audit, 7. Vouching, 8. Verification of Assets and Liabilities, 9. Appointment, Qualifications, Remuneration, Rights and Duties of an Auditor, 10 . Liabilities of a Company Auditor, 11. Company Audit, 12 . Auditors Report and Certificate, 13. Special Areas of Auditing, 14 . Standards on Auditing, 15. Audit of Computerised Accounts. Corporate Governance 1. Conceptual Framework of Corporate Governance, 2. Regulatory Framework of Corporate Governance, 3. Failure of Corporate Governance and Reforms of Corporate Governance, 4.Major Codes and Standards on Corporate Governance, 5. Corporate Social Responsibility, 6. Business Ethics and Rating Agencies.