According to Company Law 1965, each and every company
(public or private) is compulsory to be audited. It is a process to a business
as it goes through of an analysis to determine the business condition. Auditing
will be performed once of a financial year by an internal or external auditor.
Auditing helps
to identify the business’s weaknesses in the accounting systems as some errors
might occur. It suggest improvements to businesses to perform better in the
future too.
Moreover, performing an audit can help to detect any fraudulent
activities in the business. Some fraudulent activities that is run by the
business might not be obvious to show sometimes but it can be easily found by performing
an audit.
Other than the social gaining confident from the
product or service of a particular company, having to know that the company’s audit
report is being unqualified will help them build more trust and confident to
the company as the company is being audited by an professional and independent
auditor with GAAS (Generally Accepted Auditing Standard).
Furthermore, the most considerable thing to all the shareholders
is the return and the condition of the company. By performing an audit, it can
show a true and fair view to the company as to provide assurance to the
shareholders about the figures in all the accounts.
Not just that, auditing can detect any risk in the
company such as inherent risk, control risk, and detection risk. These risks
reflects to the internal control of a company as it is the main core control of
how the business is carried out. Hence, the company can correct the mistakes
and perform better in the future.
Performing an audit is a
process that is mainly to provide security and assurance of the financial condition
to the company in order to make decisions. Thus, the management can use this
information to evaluate and measure the necessary to meet their objectives.
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