MP Principles of Auditing & Assurance Services with ACL Software CD

by O. Ray Whittington and Kurt Pany

Book Overview

The 20th edition of Principles of Auditing & Other Assurance Services provides a carefully balanced presentation of auditing theory and practice. Written in a clear and understandable manner, it is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0077486277
• ISBN13: 9780077486273
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
• Length: 842 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.6" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Everything went great

I received the book very quickly and it was in great shape. Everything went great.

Heavy subject, well thought out book

Auditing isn't the most exciting thing to learn/read about, but this book makes it a little easier. There are small real life examples that go along with what you're reading in the text and the exercises at the end of the chapter really do help you learn. Of course the text has a website you can gather even more information on to help you understand the subject. Very good job overall

Thanks!

The book came brand new. So far very insightful into the world of auditing!

Principles of Auditing & Other Assurance Services

This text is easy to understand, especially if you have had some basic accounting classes, and some basic business law. It is almost like a refresher course that some new items have been added with. It kept my attention.

The Best Auditing Book Available

During the 16 years that I have taught Financial Auditing at the university level I have been constantly on the lookout for the best available book. I chose Whittington & Pany because (1) it is succinct, (2) it presents auditing concepts clearly (although the authors do sugar coat the accounting scandals of the past 20 years and fail to give credit where credit is due by naming the firms involved in them), (3) the page layout is attractive and easy to read, and most importantly (4) my students preferred it over other texts (one student told me that she chose my class after looking through the assigned texts for all of the Auditing sections, an excellent idea). The current (15th ed.) has been brought up to date with a limited discussion of Sarbanes-Oxley and the PCAOB. The material is obviously dry, but I found that it was possible to make my classes more interesting by incorporating newspaper accounts of the more egregious audit failures in the assigned readings, and by being honest about the arrogance, greed and stupidity that are all too typical of the accounting profession today. This practice has brought complaints by the local offices of the major firms, to which my department head replied that they are welcome to come speak to the classes to explain their side of the story. To date, they have not accepted the invitation.