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 ...

Journal entries are, according to the Journal of Accountancy, highly susceptible to management override and fraud. The most frequent, says the Journal, are manual override entries involving fictitious ...

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 ...