Business managers and accountants commonly use double entry bookkeeping to record business transactions and compose financial statements. Journal entries are initial records of the day-to-day ...

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 ...

Small business users of QuickBooks may rarely, if ever, need to make a journal entry in their books. A journal entry splits a transaction into two parts, recording a debit for one account and an equal ...

Auditors can use Benford’s Law to identify general ledger irregularities — both those that can indicate fraud and those that do not. In this article, I introduce audit data analytics techniques that ...