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Accounting: Financial Audit

Auditing is a vital part of accounting and is traditionally associated with evaluating financial systems and records of a company. Financial audits are performed to evaluate the validity, reliability, and internal controls of information as well as to provide an opinion on the system or organization. Audits provide reasonable but not absolute assurance that financial statements are free of material errors. Cost accounting verifies the cost of production by systematically examining cost accounts and records to ensure costs are properly determined according to accounting principles. Audits must adhere to established standards to assure third parties can rely on the auditor's opinions and judgments.

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Accounting: Financial Audit

Auditing is a vital part of accounting and is traditionally associated with evaluating financial systems and records of a company. Financial audits are performed to evaluate the validity, reliability, and internal controls of information as well as to provide an opinion on the system or organization. Audits provide reasonable but not absolute assurance that financial statements are free of material errors. Cost accounting verifies the cost of production by systematically examining cost accounts and records to ensure costs are properly determined according to accounting principles. Audits must adhere to established standards to assure third parties can rely on the auditor's opinions and judgments.

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Accounting[edit]

Main article: Financial audit


Auditing is a vital part of accounting. Traditionally, audits were mainly associated with gaining information about
financial systems and the financial records of a company or a business.
Financial audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information, as well as to provide
an assessment of a system's internal control. The goal of an audit is to express an opinion of the person /
organization / system (etc.) in question, under evaluation based on work done on a test basis.
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Due to constraints, an audit seeks to provide only reasonable assurance that the statements are free
from material error. Hence, statistical sampling is often adopted in audits. In the case offinancial audits, a set
of financial statements are said to be true and fair when they are free of material misstatements a concept
influenced by both quantitative (numerical) and qualitativefactors. But recently, the argument that auditing should go
beyond just true and fair is gaining momentum.
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And the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has come
out with a concept release on the same.
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Cost accounting is a process for verifying the cost of manufacturing or producing of any article, on the basis of
accounts measuring the use of material, labor or other items of cost. In simple words, the term, cost audit means a
systematic and accurate verification of the cost accounts and records, and checking for adherence to the cost
accounting objectives. According to the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, a cost audit is
"an examination of cost accounting records and verification of facts to ascertain that the cost of the product has been
arrived at, in accordance with principles of cost accounting."
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An audit must adhere to generally accepted standards established by governing bodies. These standards assure
third parties or external users that they can rely upon the auditor's opinion on the fairness of financial statements, or
other subjects on which the auditor expresses an opinion.
The definition for Audit and Assurance Standard AAS-1 by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India (ICAI): Auditing is defined as a systematic and independent examination of data, statements, records,
operations and performance (financial or otherwise) of an enterprise for a stated purpose. In any auditing situation,
the auditor perceives and recognises the proposition before him for examination, collects evidence, evaluates the
same and on this basis formulates a judgment which is communicated through an audit report. An audit is an
independent examination of financial information of an entity, irrespective of its size and form, when such examination
is conducted with a view of expressing an opinion thereon.

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