Whatever the nature of the elements of the stock count or departments in which the elements are located, the auditor should perform their work according to certain rules and will perform the stock count in order to answer certain questions in the check list. The members of the audit team...

The provision of transparent and useful information on market partici-pants and their transaction is essential for an orderly and efficient market, and it is one of the most important preconditions for imposing market discipline. Left to themselves, markets may not generate sufficient levels of...

The article describes in a real and elaborate manner the aspects concerning the correlation between statutory audit and the financial communication provided by the entity, by means of financial statements. In order to avail of a complex image of this issue, we have begun by stating clearly the...

The paper discusses a very topical issue, under the conditions of the economic crisis, on the going concern of an entity and the manner in which the auditor can provide reasonable assurances to that effect. The going concern assumption is a fundamental principle for drafting the financial...

The aim of this paper is to bring into attention the creative accounting phenomenon. Typesof creative accounting practices has been examined comparing scandals occurred in large companiesin the last two decades. In order to realize this scope we define the concept of creative accounting andits...

The crisis of credits and its effects upon all companies, make the assumption of activity continuity be not anymore a pre-established conclusion. The major cash issues, affecting the banks, insurance companies, retailers, car manufacturers and all companies regardless of their activity, prove...

This paper presents a statistical analysis confirming the former empirical findings that positive differences between the growth rates of P-Score and Z-score appears in financial statement data of companies involved in major financial fraud. The paper examines firms that engaged in fraud in the...

This article models the detection and prediction of managerial fraud in the financial statements of Tunisian banks. The methodology used consist of examining a battery of financial ratios used by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as indicators of the financial situation of a bank....

We analyze whether information asymmetry affects three major aspects of the audit process using an instrumental variables research design that exploits exogenous increases in information asymmetry stemming from brokerage house mergers and closures. Consistent with our predictions, we find that a...

We confirm the results of prior studies that auditor tenure improves earnings quality on average. We extend their findings to show that the improvement in earnings quality resulting from longer auditor tenure is greater for firms with higher information asymmetry, after controlling for auditor's...