This course provides the knowledge of principles, standards and techniques of auditing and management control. In the first part of the course the emphasis is on conceptual, theoretical and practical aspects of auditing financial statements. The second part develops the conceptual and practical aspects of organizations' management control systems.
Written preselected test (using the website test.ec.unipi.it) and oral exam.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply professional auditing standards and appropriate audit and other procedures to financial statement auditing and to analyze and develop organization's management control system.
Written preselected test (using the website test.ec.unipi.it) and oral exam.
Those students desiring a career in assurance services will have the essential background to conduct financial statement auditing. In addition, those students desiring a career in management control systems will have the essential background to analyze and design the budgeting system and the reporting processes
Written exam.
Knowledge of the fundamental of financial accounting.
The course is divided in two parts. The first one refers to the analysis of the financial statement auditing activities and of the main components of internal control and risk management systems. The second concerns the analysis of management control systems and of its main tools and processes.
In the auditing part, the topics analyzed are:
In the management control part, the topics analyzed are:
D’Onza, Rakipi – AUDITING AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL – ISBN 9781307674446
Written preselected test (using the website test.ec.unipi.it) and oral exam