The Craft of Auditing: The Stuff You Actually Need to Learn Before Graduating - Softcover

Maksymov, Eldar

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798299703870

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

The Craft of Auditing: The Stuff You Actually Need to Learn Before Graduating employs conversational language, realistic examples, and real-world scenarios for class discussion to equip students with the information and skillsets needed in their future careers in auditing and related fields.

The book's relatable nature and carefully created pedagogy makes it an excellent resource for in-person classes, distance learning, and the flipped classroom.

The text is organized into 25 individual lessons. The opening lessons introduce students to auditing as a profession and as a business. Subsequent lessons cover the audit risk model, auditor independence requirements, and key phases of the process of auditing financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) with audit data analytics (ADA) and other contemporary audit methods. Students learn about accounting and transaction cycles, audit quality indicators, and significant threats to auditors. Closing lessons cover concluding audit procedures, issuing audit reports, and the psychological biases that are applicable to auditing. The second edition includes corrections throughout the book and new Cognella Active Learning companion material.

The Craft of Auditing is ideal for undergraduate courses in auditing, designed to well prepare students for the realities of the profession and for graduate programs in accounting and business.

About this title

About the Author

Eldar Maksymov is a full professor in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he is an award-winning instructor of auditing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He draws on his five years of audit experience at Deloitte and his extensive audit-related research to bring real-world relevance into the classroom. Dr. Maksymov holds a Ph.D. in accounting and M.S. in management from Cornell University. His research has received multiple awards, including the Wildman Medal-audit academia's most prestigious recognition for work with significant impact on the auditing field-and has been frequently cited in financial media. His publications appear in leading peer-reviewed accounting research journals, including Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Review of Accounting Studies; and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798299703870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 468