Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing - Couverture rigide

Stringer, Kenneth W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0471118168 ISBN 13 : 9780471118169

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review (STAR) is a computer program in Deloitte & Touche's audit practice group. This program integrates audit decisions about materiality, reliability, and other audit objectives with regression analysis and other statistical techniques that can be used in analytical review. This volume has been written from the perspective of an external auditor with financial audit experience. It provides a basic foundation of regression for the marketplace without using complicated mathematics. "Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review" in Auditing provides the understanding and implementation of the STAR program in four stages: a description of the audit philosophy behind STAR's success, providing an overview of the program and discussing the analytical review techniques that are used; a description of the basic concepts and formulae needed for regression analysis and other statistical techniques that are incorporated into the program, with explanations of both simple, two-variable models and the more complex multivariate models; a definition of audit and statistical objectives, showing how to design and improve audit models for analytical review, and shows how to use STAR results; details of the statistical tests and transformations performed by STAR and an explanation of the mathematics behind multivariate regression.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Based on the continuing success of STAR, the computer–based auditing system first pioneered by Deloitte & Touche LLP almost 25 years ago, Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing, Second Edition builds on its original text to provide a comprehensive, up–to–date, and practical guide to using this highly effective and efficient system for planning, performing, and evaluating analytical procedures.

The first edition of this unrivaled work was published in 1986, following 15 years and thousands of effective applications of the STAR Program worldwide. This Second Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changes required by SAS 56, and features additional practical examples and all new graphics and printouts.

Without using complicated mathematics, the authors take the reader through the understanding and implementation of STAR in four stages:

• Beginning with a description of the audit philosophy behind its success, they provide an overview of STAR′s role in analytical procedures. They then cover the basic statistical concepts of regression analysis and other statistical techniques utilized by STAR. The authors then explain the practical aspects of designing and improving STAR models and of interpreting and evaluating their results. Finally, they describe in detail the statistical tests and transformations performed by STAR and explain the mathematics behind multivariate regression. Pertinent examples are used throughout to illustrate both theory and practice.

The only text currently available on this successful and widely used auditing program, Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing, Second Edition is designed to be an invaluable resource for external as well as internal auditors involved in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.

A new and updated edition of a classic text for the auditing professional

STAR, the premier computer–based auditing system for performing statistical procedures, has been successfully implemented in thousands of worldwide audits. Developed by Deloitte & Touche LLP, STAR is designed to integrate statistical modeling techniques and professional judgments in a manner that is optimized for auditors.

Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing was written to explain the concepts and techniques implemented through STAR and to encourage their use by other auditors. In this new and thoroughly updated Second Edition, the authors continue to provide the audit marketplace with an important and far–reaching resource.

Written from the perspective of the practitioner, Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing, Second Edition features:

• An overview of the auditing environment and the role of analytical procedures
• Intuitively appealing, nontechnical coverage of regression analysis and other statistical techniques used in STAR
• Practical guidance on building and evaluating STAR applications
• Details of mathematical and computational technology in STAR
• Many practice–based examples

Biographie de l'auteur

KENNETH W. STRINGER is a former partner with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, predecessor of Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he served as director of professional services for the international firm and, earlier, as partner–in–charge of accounting and auditing services for the U.S. firm. Mr. Stringer introduced a number of innovative systems to the firm′s audit practice, including the Audit Sampling Plan, STAR, and Auditape the first generalized audit retrieval software package developed by a national accounting firm. After retiring in 1981, he spent six years as a professor of accounting at the New York University Stern School of Business.

Mr. Stringer served on various AICPA com–mittees, including the Committee on Auditing Procedures and the Commission on Auditor′s Responsibilities. As chairman of the relevant subcommittee, he introduced an audit risk model that related materiality and reliance on internal control to substantive audit tests of details and analytical review procedures. He also played a leading role in drafting a related pronouncement issued by the committee in 1972. The concepts in that pronouncement underlie the audit philosophy expressed in this book and have been the subject of elaboration in several subsequent statements on auditing standards.

In 1981, Mr. Stringer received the first Distinguished Service Award presented by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association for "outstanding service to the academic and professional practice of auditing."

TREVOR R. STEWART is Director of Accounting & Auditing Technology for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where his responsibilities include the development, support, and implementation of software for the firm′s worldwide accounting and auditing practice.

Mr. Stewart is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa). He has a B. Com. degree from the University of Port Elizabeth and a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He joined the audit department of Deloitte′s Johannesburg office in 1971 and has also served the firm in London and New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471118168
• ISBN 13: 9780471118169
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible