The Audit Committee Handbook, 2nd Edition
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This revised edition reflects the rapidly changing environment in corporate and financial communities. Uses a theoretical and practical perspective to examine audit committee members' tasks and will help them to oversee and monitor internal/external audit functions, understand crucial guidelines for minimizing legal liability, formulate important questions to ask during pre- and post-audit meetings as well as review and attend to the internal control system, accounting policies, disclosures, questionable foreign payments, conflicts of interest and contributions.
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Partial table of contents:
GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES.
Your Role in the Auditing Process.
Corporate Accountability: How to Keep It in Perspective.
The External Users of Accounting Information.
The Legal Position of the Audit Committee.
Rules of the Road—Auditing and Related Accounting Standards.
THE PLANNING FUNCTION OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE.
An Overview of Audit Planning.
Director's Role in Planning the Audit.
THE MONITORING AND REVIEWING FUNCTIONS OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE.
Monitoring the System of Internal Control.
Monitoring the Internal Audit Function.
Reviewing Accounting Policy Disclosures.
THE REPORTING FUNCTION AND THE AUDIT COMMITTEE.
Independent Auditors' Reports.
Appendices.
Index.
