Business managers and accountants commonly use double entry bookkeeping to record business transactions and compose financial statements. Journal entries are initial records of the day-to-day ...

A business may have system-generated and manually entered journal entries for accounting. Some entries, such as accounts payable or payrolls, are automatically recorded in the computer system when a ...

Auditors know that journal-entry testing is one of many procedures they can use in addressing client data completeness and, hence, audit risk (see AU-C Section 240, Consideration of Fraud in a ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a staff publication highlighting problems it's seeing with audits of journal entries. Processing Content The publication, Audit Focus: Journal ...

Auditors can use Benford’s Law to identify general ledger irregularities — both those that can indicate fraud and those that do not. In this article, I introduce audit data analytics techniques that ...