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What an Auditor Does

The auditor will request information from individuals and institutions to confirm bank balances, contribution amounts, conditions and restrictions, contractual obligations, and monies owed to and by your organization. The auditor will review physical assets, journals and ledgers, and board minutes to ensure that all activity with significant financial implications is adequately disclosed in the financial statements. In addition, the auditor will select a sample of financial transactions to determine whether there is proper documentation and whether the transaction was posted correctly into the books. In addition, the auditor will interview key personnel and read the procedures manual, if one exists, to determine whether the organization's internal accounting control system is adequate. The auditor usually spends several days at the organization s office looking over records and checking for completeness.

Auditors are not expected to guarantee that 100 percent of the transactions are recorded correctly. They are only required to express an opinion as to whether the financial statements, taken as a whole, give a fair representation of the organization's financial picture. In addition, audits are not intended to discover embezzlements or other illegal acts. Therefore, a "clean" or unqualified opinion should not be interpreted as an assurance that such problems do not exist.

I. Reading Exercises:

Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:

financial statements, certified public accountant, generally accepted accounting principles, trustees, balance sheet, income statement, depreciation, to confirm, contractual obligations, assets, embezzlements, assurance

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1) What is an audit?

2) What does the audit report include?

3) What does an auditor do?

Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:

1. Board members, staff, and their relatives cannot

a) comparative information between fiscal years.

2. Many audits show

b) discover embezzlements or other illegal acts.

3. The auditor will select

c) perform audits because their relationship with the organization compromises their independence.

4. Audits are not intended to

d) a sample of financial transactions to determine whether there is proper documentation.

Exercise 4. Open brackets choosing the right words:

The auditor will (ask/request) information from individuals and institutions to (take/ confirm) bank balances, contribution amounts, conditions and restrictions, contractual obligations, and monies owed to and by your organization. The auditor will (show/review) physical assets, journals and ledgers, and board minutes to ensure that all activity with significant financial implications is adequately (improved/disclosed) in the financial statements.