Auditing

Auteur
Karla M. Zehms, Ph.D., C.P.A., is the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and Information Systems and the associate dean for research and Ph.D. programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches auditing and her research investigates auditor decision making, including auditors' client acceptance and continuance decisions, fraud brainstorming, audit planning, clientauditor negotiation and audit budget-setting processes. Dr. Zehms serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and is active in the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association, where she has served in various leadership roles including serving as president. In 2022, Dr. Zehms received the Outstanding Audit Educator Award from the American Accounting Association, Auditing Section. In addition to her teaching career, Dr. Zehms worked in practice as a corporate accountant and a staff auditor. She was a doctoral fellow in residence at Coopers and Lybrand.Audrey A. Gramling, Ph.D., C.P.A., C.I.A., is a professor and the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Endowed Chair in the School of Accounting at Oklahoma State University, where she previously served as the head of the school and the Wilton T. Anderson Endowed Chair. Throughout her career Dr. Gramling has made numerous contributions to the accounting and academic professions. She has served a one-year term as an Academic Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she consulted on auditor independence, possible enforcement cases and auditing standards. Dr. Gramling has also served the public interest through setting audit standards as a member of the AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB). She contributed to multiple projects, including audit evidence, EER assurance, fraud and going concern. She has been a member of the Center for Audit Quality's Accounting Academic Sounding Board and served as a COSO Advisory Council Member for the 2013 Internal Control-Integrated Framework Project. Dr. Gramling has also held numerous leadership positions with the American Accounting Association. Before earning her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, she was an external auditor at a predecessor firm of Deloitte. She also served as an internal auditor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Larry E. Rittenberg, Ph.D., C.P.A., C.I.A., is professor emeritus from the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Rittenberg taught courses in auditing, risk management and corporate governance. He is also chair emeritus of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), where he has provided oversight of the development of the COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework as well as the COSO Guidance for Smaller Businesses. Dr. Rittenberg has served as vice-chair of professional practices for the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and president of the IIA Research Foundation. He has been a member of the Auditing Standards Committee of the AAA Auditing Section, the AICPA's Computer Audit Subcommittee, the Information Technology Committee and the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Audit Committees. He has also served as vice-president and treasurer of the American Accounting Association. He is a member of an audit committee, board and governance committee of Woodward Governor, a publicly traded company. In addition, he has consulted on audit committee, risk and control issues with the largest public company in China. He has served as one of the seven members of the International Oversight Council for Professional Practice of the IIA. In addition, Dr. Rittenberg served as staff auditor for Ernst and Young and has co-authored five books and monographs and numerous articles.

Résumé
Prepare for success in today's rapidly changing audit environment as you develop professional and ethical decision-making skills with Zehms/Gramling/Rittenberg's AUDITING: A RISK BASED-APPROACH, 12E. This edition integrates the latest in standards, including new guidance on audit reports, fraud risks and audit evidence. Unique conceptual frameworks help you strengthen ethical decision-making skills and professional skepticism. A new framework also guides you through using data analytics in auditing with simulation cases that use real-life data sets. Revised, reader-friendly content offers interesting learning features that highlight key points and provide hands-on opportunities to refine critical-thinking skills. New and revised end-of-chapter cases and problems further strengthen your writing skills for the CPA exam. In addition, MindTap digital resources are available with an interactive ebook and engaging cases to reinforce your data-driven decision-making skills.

Contenu

1. Quality Auditing: Why It Matters. 2. The Auditor's Responsibilities Regarding Fraud and Mechanisms to Address Fraud: Regulation and Corporate Governance. 3. Internal Control Over Financial Reporting: Responsibilities of Management and the External Auditor. 4. Professional Legal Liability. 5. Professional Auditing Standards and the Audit Opinion Formulation Process. 6. Audit Evidence. 7. Planning the Audit: Identifying and Responding to the Risks of Material Misstatement. 8. Specialized Audit Tools: Sampling and Generalized Audit Software. 9. Auditing the Revenue Cycle. 10. Auditing Cash and Marketable Securities. 11. Auditing Inventory, Goods and Services, and Accounts Payable: The Acquisition and Payment Cycle. 12. Auditing Long-Lived Assets: Acquisition, Use, Impairment, and Disposal. 13. Auditing Long-Term Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity Transactions. 14. Completing a Quality Audit. 15. Audit Reports. ACL Appendix. Case Index. Why It Matters and Fraud Focus Index by Chapter. Data Analytics cases by Chapter. Index.