Principles of Auditing and Other Assurance Services with Dynamic Accounting Powerweb

by O. Ray Whittington and Kurt Pany

Book Overview

Using the balance sheet approach, this work presents various concepts and monitors changes in auditing to make the relationship between accounting and auditing understandable. It features the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072879521
• ISBN13: 9780072879520
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.

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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.

Whittington and Pany ROCK!!!!!

Let me tell ya! What do you get when you combine Whittington, Pany, and Auditing? It's just a boatload of accounting fun!!! These guys know how to put together a book on auditing. This thing is a real page turner. Damn! Attestation really rocks but Assurance Services will just blow your mind. Even if your're not an accountant, this is a great read. I understand the 13th edition is already a red hot item, so grab a copy today before they're all sold out. This is the one book you'll definitely want to have with you if you're traveling and you have room in your back pack for just one book. Read it, then read it again and again. Seriously, you can't put this thing down. It's THAT good! You'll be talking about it with your friends and family for years to come. Can't wait for someone to turn this puppy into an offering for the big screen. That would be sweeeet!!!