Auditing Accounting Practices: A Critical Review of Current Practices and Emerging Issues

Abstract

Accounting and auditing are two distinct yet interdependent fields. Accounting and auditing complement each other in terms of the way audit legitimizes accounting while accounting also makes firms auditable. Organization effective financial management relies on the relationship between accounting and auditing, two vital disciplines that collaborate to ensure the integrity, reliability and compliance of an organizations financial operations. The study examined auditing accounting practices: a critical review of current practices and emerging issues. The review summarizes the current practices and emerging issues in the field of audit and accounting profession and also provides ways these issues can be overcome.