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 top-side journal entry is most susceptible to fraud by management override. It’s possible to make adjustments in subledgers, but this requires collusion with other organizational departments, ...

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 ...

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 ...