Types of audits
As far we have tended to think in state of the audit of limited companies, and certainly, the emphasis during this text will be on that companies incorporated below the Companies Act 1962, not least since this category of audit situation is at the heart of the wide majority of auditing examination questions. Conversely it may be convenient at this level to briefly indicate the major classes of audit such are undertaken in practice.
Two types of Audit
- Statutory Audits and
- Non-Statutory Audits