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 ...
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, ...