Journal entries are, according to the Journal of Accountancy, highly susceptible to management override and fraud. The most frequent, says the Journal, are manual override entries involving fictitious ...

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 ...

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 ...