What  is  a  Acountant/Auditor?
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An audit is an evaluation of an organization, system, process, project or product. It is performed by a competent, independent, objective, and unbiased person or persons, known as auditors. The purpose is to make an independent assessment based on management's representation of their financial condition (through their financial statements). Another purpose of the audit is to ensure the operating effectiveness of the internal accounting system is in accordance with approved and accepted accounting standards, statutes, regulations, or practices. It also evaluates the internal controls to determine if conformance will continue, and recommends necessary changes in policies, procedures or controls. Auditing is a part of some quality control certifications such as ISO 9000.\n\n\n\nThere are two types of auditors:\n\nInternal: Those are typically hired by the company. They audit and report to either management or the board of directors or both. \nExternal (also called outside or independent auditors): They typically work for public accounting firms that are regional, national, or international. They are typically engaged to do the audit by the board of directors. \n\n\n\nAlso, here is a link that will give you different definitions of an accountant... http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/accountant
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It is someone who takes care of Accounts Payable for a company. Receives invoices, gets them approved for payment, and remits payment for the invoices.
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financial statements -are only a statement of the board  ,vouched that they reflect the true financials of the company.[mostly they are not].a good accountant -can detect the hidden flaws in the statements that the board wants us to read.stringent rules &punishments will deter the board and the auditing firms -to indulge in such acts .
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I am well agreed with the answer of Edna T.\nAccounting is a profession that involves lot of responsibilities and lot of authorities. When somebody has authority to do something then there are more chances to misuse the sources.\nAs accountants have authority so they should also being controlled by an independent authority that formulate the rules and bounderies for them, in order to run the work smoothly and without misconceptions.\nThe worldwide governing body for accounts is "International Federation of Accountants" IFAC\nand there are lot of óther local bodies of every country.
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By running their ss #'s randomly to see if they are claimed by someone else.\n\nThe audit department works on a totally random process unless they are tipped off.
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Auditing simply means that when some one cheks the system with the standards. In company auditing means that when a team of professional take out a perodical survey about the different activities going on in a company to measure the performance of the efficiency. \n\nFor Example if an XYZ company has a manufacturing plant. Then during auditing various aspects of that plant wil be examined and made sure that they work according to the company's standard.
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Definitions of accounting on the Web:\n\n    * a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes; "he was unable to give a clear accounting for his actions"\n    * a system that provides quantitative information about finances\n    * accountancy: the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business\n    * a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts\n    * account: a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; "they send me an accounting every month"\n      wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\n    * Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the process by which financial information about a business is recorded, classified, summarized, interpreted, and communicated. Auditing, a related but separate discipline, is the process of an independent review of financial statements in order to express an opinion as to the fairness and adherence to generally accepted accounting principles.\n      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting\n\n    * The overall process of identifying, measuring, recording, interpreting, and communicating the results of economic activity; tracking business income and expenses and using these numbers to answer specific questions about the financial and tax status of the business.\n      www.theaccountspayablenetwork.com/html/modules.php\n\n    * A service activity designed to accumulate, measure, and communicate financial information about economic entities for decision-making purposes.\n      www.finet.com.hk/accounting/a.htm\n\n    * The systematic recording, reporting, and analysis of financial transactions of a business.\n      www.unisys.com/common/investors/glossary/\n\n    * A comprehensive system for recording and summarizing business transactions.\n      www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/html/c1-05.html\n\n    * The act of collecting information on resource usage for the purpose of capacity and trend analysis, cost allocation, auditing and billing. Accounting management requires that resource consumption be measured, rated, assigned, and communicated between appropriate parties. Typical information that is gathered in accounting is the identity of the user, the nature of the service delivered, when the service began, and when it ended.\n      tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/aaa/aaaterms.html\n\n    * The recording, classifying, summarizing, and interpreting in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions, and events of a financial character.\n      www.business.gov/phases/launching/are_you_ready/glossary.html\n\n    * Accounting arrangement between operators concerning the declaration of accounts in Traditional Switched Transit. In Direct accounting, the operator originating the traffic sends each of the intervening operators a separate declaration and the payments due to them.\n      www.opentransit.francetelecom.com/m_tool_box/m02_glossary/m02_glossary_voice.asp\n\n    * The process of systematically recording, classifying, verifying and summarizing business transactions, and presenting this information in periodic, interpretative financial statements and reports.\n      www.ncbuy.com/credit/glossary.html\n\n    * 2003, vol. 13, issue 1, pages 69-81\n      econpapers.repec.org/article/tafacbsfi/v_3A13_3Ay_3A2003_3Ai_3A1_3Ap_3A69-81.htm\n\n    * The systematic recording, presentation and interpretation of the financial facts of an enterprise in such a manner as to permit effective management and provide the required information.\n      www.gov.nt.ca/FMBS/documents/FAMWeb/glossary.htm\n\n    * Recording information about finances in an accountable way.\n      osraids.org/index.php\n\n    * In information technology, accounting is the process of keeping track of a user's activity while accessing a network's resources, including the amount of time spent in the network, the services accessed while there and t
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Accounting is the principles behind and the process of tracking the resources of a company to provide management information to the company and its stakeholders.\n\nThat's the one sentence answer. \n\nFor the rest, you can have a look at the CPA site, it was written by Uni Graduates, so it takes about 3 pages to say the same thing
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An auditor is not typically charged with enforcing procedures, but rather with making sure appropriate procedures are in place and are consistently followed.  Spot checks of actual transactions would be appropriate, but I wouldn't expect an auditor to run around counting cash in drawers and boxes.
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it is an audit with the purpose of discovering what (normally) went wrong. Usually to explain and quantify the extent of malfeasance, and normally undertaken where there is a high suspicion or basic proof of wrongdoing
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An expert witness is a witness, who by virtue of education, or profession, or experience, is believed to have special knowledge of his subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely his opinion.
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Question not complte.\nDesignations are - Accounts Clerk, Accounts Assistant, Assistant Accountant, Accountant, Senior Accountant or Chief Accountant, Accounts Manager, Director - Accounts
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a tonner.... haha \n\nPlease be more specific about your question.. \n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/\nhttp://www.schoolingkids.com/
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Someone who is responsible.\nMaybe someone who has been through many life experiences.\nSomeone older.
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Assists in accounting matters, reconciliation, account payable and receivables etc.
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Accounts & Tutions will be good. You have to try for the same.  You can try with auditors for accounts and go through news papers for tutions.
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review your processes and technology.  business within a company normally follows some sort of flow (hopefully!).  i have used a flow diagram to get a sense of how things are happening.  most times you will need to interview employees to hear directly how they are doing their jobs (sometimes what you think might be happening isn't)\n\nafter you've done the audit, you can often times spot redundancies or inefficientcies.  this can apply to all parts of your business - from personnel workflow, to technology to...  absolutely anything that is part of a process.