The phrase "audit practices" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods, procedures, or standards related to conducting audits in various contexts, such as finance, compliance, or quality assurance.
Example: "The company has implemented new audit practices to ensure greater transparency and accountability in its financial reporting."
Alternatives: "audit procedures" or "audit methodologies".
New standards to help accountants detect financial fraud at the companies they audit were proposed yesterday by the industry organization responsible for developing rules on audit practices.
At the moment, auditors are supposedly kept honest by a longstanding system of self-regulation, in which big firms conduct "peer reviews" of each others' audit practices.
The supermarket chain was brought down by the lowest scores for accounting and audit practices that were largely a hangover from an accounting scandal and a series of profit warnings in the past two years.
WASHINGTON — A tax research group went to court Monday, arguing that the Internal Revenue Service was not complying with federal court orders to release data on its audit practices.
In an administrative proceeding, the S.E.C. found that Robert G. Kutsenda, 58, who was the audit practices director in charge of Andersen's central region, "engaged in highly unreasonable conduct" but did not charge him with fraud.
But the big audit firms believe the risks are disproportionate.Against that background, they have started a process that they hope will lead to more appropriate and less risky audit practices.
These results have direct practical application for the use of feedback in audit practice.
More recently, as an Arthur Andersen executive testified before Congress, "This policy toward document disposal reflects sound audit practice".
He joined AA's audit practice 28 years ago, and his last job was to run "assurance"—which is centred on audit in North America.
His father is a senior consultant in health benefits audit practice for Hewitt Associates, a human resources benefits consulting firm in Lincolnshire, Ill.
Scott I. London, the partner in charge of the audit practice for KPMG in Southern California, was fired by the accounting firm.
