The objectives of the present research are related to the approaches concerning the “performance audit” concept in the specialized literature and practice as well as the clear delimitation of this concept of financial audit and internal audit. For a clear emphasis of the objectives and...

The characteristic elements of the new economy require economic entities new performance standards that go beyond economics. These standards should be integrated into corporate strategy development to ensure sustainability of activities. Globalization affects corporate governance reforms...

Financial scandals of the last decade have had a negative effect upon the trust and perception of investors regarding auditor responsibility and their part in fraud and error detection. As a result of legal conditions and regulations, audit firms in some jurisdictions have recently started to...

This paper provides an effective tool «fraud risk map« for organizations and auditors in mathematic assessment procedures, with real, tangible results, regarding the organization’s fraud risk exposure. Overcoming the fade and purely theoretical risk assessment methods («based on...

To reflect the place and role of internal audit in the economic entity and its function as assistant manager in this paper we followed the presentation of the preliminary assumptions of a model for measuring the quality of internal audit. Also, we presented a possible model of research regarding...

An irony of our times may be that, although hundreds of satellites are monitoring the Earth's activity and that the use of informatics has been generalized, allowing the collection, accumulation, transmission and processing of an impressive volume of data – however, the accuracy of the...

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has been promoting a worldwide accounting harmonization and convergence project for more than a decade now with the declared purpose to increase comparability of financial information worldwide. We conduct a historical and chronological...

The existence of risk in economic activity can not be denied. In fact, the risk is a concept which exists in every activity, the term of risk being identified with uncertainty, respectively the (un)chance to produce an undesirable event. Internal audit and risk management aim at the same goal,...

This article sets out to present the difference between the means of executing creative accountingand that of executing fraud, the way in which they are perceived in the business environment, as well as the implications that they have in companies’ activities. The article’s structure...

Financial scandals of the last decade have had a negative effect upon the trust and perception of investors regarding auditor responsibility, firm performance and their part in fraud and error detection. The audit firms play an important role in the capital markets by verifying that auditors...