Responsibility of the audit committee

Responsibility of the audit committee

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Fraud is not an individual problem, but rather, we deal with a systematic fraud, particularly in the public sector through the creation of a private monopoly over public sector. Therefore, the first step, which needs to be set in organization in order to develop an efficient system for fraud control is development of anti-fraud strategy. Anti-fraud...

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... Adoption of a policy that will ensure the implementation of programs to eliminate the risk of fraud; 2. Risk assessment of fraud for critical places and persons exposed to the possibility of fraud; 3. Establishment of procedures and methods for fraud prevention; 4. Establish procedures and methods for detecting fraud and 5. Establish a fraud reporting process. According to the theoretical framework, three basic areas of responsibility of the audit committee are mentioned (Pickett 2019): financial reporting, corporate governance and management control ( Figure 3). From all the above, it follows that the responsibilities of board members are very important because the audit committee must be independent and the members skilled and professional to be able to analyze a large amount of information to monitor the accuracy of reporting for business owners (Bromilow, Berlin 2015). ...

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