Inside the huddle
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An auditor requires to include a brainstorming session, called the huddle, as a central part of the planning of financial statement audits, by which he assesses the risk of material misstatements due to fraud and uses it to plan the audit to give reasonable assurance of detecting material fraud. Audit clients and accountants in the audit client entity need to cooperate with the auditors to engage themselves in their own assessments as part of their compliance with the principles of internal control.
Publication Name: The Journal of Government Financial Management
Subject: Government
ISSN: 1353-1385
Year: 2006
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One easy (but long) step to more effective internal auditors or what are the consequences of considering internal controls as consequences?
Article Abstract:
The need to re-evaluate how one views and defines internal controls and explores practical approaches to establishing and implementing more effective internal controls is assessed. It is reported that the information is relevant to management and to auditors as well.
Publication Name: The Journal of Government Financial Management
Subject: Government
ISSN: 1353-1385
Year: 2003
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Audit huddles as a tool to control over and under-auditing tendencies
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The scope of the individual audits and the actions of the individual auditors are analyzed as tools to improve the audit process. The understandings of internal controls of the system and roles of individual auditors in the audit huddles.
Publication Name: The Journal of Government Financial Management
Subject: Government
ISSN: 1353-1385
Year: 2007
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