IN the wake of the recent global financial and economic crisis, the role of audit was queried. Fingers were pointed at external auditors as easy scapegoats for not providing forewarning of the crisis. However, it must be remembered that audit has not failed one hundred percent.
Corporate failure and by association, audit failure, accounts for only a small percentage of the thousands of audits carried out across the world every year.
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