Audit Education

The auditing challenges associated with multinational organizations, together with the profession’s ever growing set of auditor regulations, highlights the crucial importance for auditors of having a sound grasp of a wide range of business and interpersonal skills. Given the constraints in which audit educators operate, insights into improving educational experiences are valuable because they can help sort through the overwhelming range of pedagogic possibilities.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Accounting Education: An International Journal.

Audit professionals are valued members of society and are expected to be both skilled and ethical in their decision-making. The role of the auditor extends far beyond that of counting beans by demanding a social and political awareness, a technical knowledge, ethical principles and relationship skills. In addition, due to the team-oriented nature of the audit approach, auditors require strong team-building and interpersonal skills. This book offers expert descriptions of, and insights into, how such skills and responsibilities can be inculcated in tertiary education and professional training environments. Unlike other books which focus on auditing as a technical process, this volume examines auditing from a teaching and learning perspective. Expert contributors provide authoritative insights into an audit education which is embedded in accounting practice. The book’s descriptions of these insights into improving education for future audit professionals may allow the introduction of new and challenging fields of enquiry.

Audit Education will be of great interest to educators in tertiary institutions, trainers in professional firms, and key individuals in accounting professional bodies seeking to ensure their members possess acceptable levels of attainment for admission and continued membership.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Accounting Education: an international journal.