A main issue in the audit process is the risk faced by the decision makers in every aspect of an audit process decision. The decision makers’ risk behaviour and their attitude towards risk is considered to be central to the way business risk, in general, and audit risk, in particular, is...

In contrast to the extant research on audit fees of for-profit companies, literature on nonprofit audit fees is scant. In this paper, audit fee determinants of previous research are tested in a nonprofit market that is characterized by a relatively low dominance of BIG4 auditors, low litigation...

This work attempts a synthetic approach of the evolution of institutional organization and the exercise of public financial audit in Romania, emphasizing on historical, as well as on modern elements. Recent changes, based, obviously, on legal regulations, aim at implementing the types of audit...

Financial audit implies a methodology of assessment to ensure an independent opinion so that to equally protect all the users of financial information: shareholders, state, employees, banks, stock exchange, debtors, suppliers, clients etc. Financial auditor answers to the third parties needs in...

State budget is the fundamental document of state economy. State budget balance reflects state economy. Deficit reported in a state budget in the long-term threatens long-term effective functioning of a state. This article aims at pointing out risks arising in the public finance of Slovakia and...

The audit market is divided between two main categories of auditors: Big Four auditors and Non Big Four auditors. The general accepted opinion is that the former cover most audit services. The objective of the study is to quantify the share covered by Big Four auditors at the level of Romanian...

This study aims to establish a methodology starting from certain criteria pertaining to the performance level of audited companies, according to which one may achieve a forecast of the changes in the financial audit services market, from the viewpoint of three categories of financial auditors:...

Financial audit consists of collecting and evaluating some tests regarding information in order to determine and return the accordance degree of that information with a series of preestablished criteria, performed by a competent and independent person. Doing this activity at the level of...

This article aims to identify and illustrate the inherent limitations of an engagement to perform agreed-upon procedures regarding financial information by starting from an audit mission to perform agreed-upon procedures seeking, on one hand, to determine with the help of the financial...