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Modern Auditing: Assurance Services and the Integrity of Financial Reporting

by William C. Boynton, Raymond N. Johnson

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Auditing counts!

With recent incidents at WorldCom, Enron, Xerox, Tyco, and other companies, auditing has never been so important. Auditing is perhaps our single best defense in ensuring the integrity of our financial reporting system.

That's why this new Eighth Edition of Boynton and Johnson's Modern Auditing focuses on decision making and the critical role auditors play in providing assurance about the integrity of the financial reporting system. Known for its clear writing and accessibility, this text provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of current developments in the environment, standards, and methodology of auditing.

Features
* Real-world examples relate issues discussed in the chapter to ethics, audit decision making, and the integrity of the financial reporting system.
* Focus on Audit Decisions sections highlight key factors that influence an auditor's decisions.
* Includes discussion of the role of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Auditing Standards, and a chapter feature highlights PCAOB standards that differ from Generally Accepted Auditing Standards for private companies.
* Expanded case material related to the integrated audit case (Mt. Hood Furniture) provides a variety of databases that allow students to utilize generalized audit software (IDEA) to accomplish various audit tasks. Multiple databases allow the case to be reused with different data from term to term.
* A flowchart style chapter preview begins each chapter.
* Chapter summaries reinforce important audit decisions included in the chapter.
* End-of-chapter material organized by audit decisions provides a clear link between audit decisions discussed in each chapter and the problem material.


All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:2 out of 5 stars
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 starsThe seller was horrible., 2008-10-03
The book is in fine shape. The seller is not. I needed the book for my class and it said that the seller would send the book within 2-3 days after my order was placed. She did not even send the book until 2 weeks after my order was placed. So it ended up being almost a month before I got my book.


1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 starsExtensive , 2006-05-07
This book is extensive but confusing. I had to flip back to different chapters to make sure I didn't miss anything.


2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 starsVague, wordy, confusing, and in need of examples, 2005-11-10
I found that if you want to learn the language of auditing, have another reference handy. Often, the discourse goes on and on and on and could really be distilled down into a sentence or two that had a firm and grounded presentation. There were very few examples so it was difficult at best to try to understand the often high-level conceptual frameworks that were constantly being presented. I also noted quite a few editing errors that probably arose from cut-and-pastes that were not carefully reviewed. Also, figures and diagrams were reused and were not carefully reviewed either as information was present that didn't apply to the new scenario.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 starsVery Confusing, 2005-07-13
I believe you can find a better auditing textbook in the market. I took an auditing class with one of the authur in Portland and, as a result, was required to buy the textbook. But, I ended up using another auditing textbook in order to get an "A" from this class. The format and writing style are very difficult to follow and understand.


4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsIt's OK., 1999-05-13
I'm a college student. I am studying auditing to take an AICPA exam. well, auditing is hard for me to study. I think, in order to understand a structure of auditing, reading a book is important. 'Modern Auditing' is helpful to me. A consistent arrangement of context, detailed indexes, lots of figures.... I'd like to recommend 'Modern Auditing'.




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