Auditing: Theory and Practice (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Auditing: Theory and Practice<br><br>There is a demand for a practical book on auditing which up to this time has not been met. If my twenty-four years of continuous experience in professional accountancy work is a sufficient practical training I trust I have established a prima facie excuse for the presentation of this book which contains more of practice than of theory.<br><br>Auditing in its broadest sense is the most important branch of accountancy. During the early years of my clerkship in the office of Mr. John Heins of Philadelphia (then President of the American Association of Public Accountants) and later while acting as an instructor in the School of Accounts and Finance of the University of Pennsylvania I strongly felt the need of a dependable textbook on the subject. My attention was all the more directed to the paucity of books on auditing and on other accounting and cognate subjects by contrast with the full and comprehensive literature of the legal profession which I had found of such great assistance in my studies preparatory to admission to the bar.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.