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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Ordinarily, an auditor is one to whom the receipt and payment of an organization were read, as is simplified in the Latin verb audira, to hear. This is so because in the ancient time account and records of business, estate, trust and farms were checked by their owners by their being called out by those who compiles them. Auditing however, as it ...

ABSTRACT The rising spate of fraud in public quoted company has assumed an enormous dimension. This development has eroded public trust in financial statements. Auditors in their duty to expressing professional opinion on the truth and fairness of financials are ostensibly bedeviled with quantum of challenges which could result in the issuance of a clean bill of health to corruption-riddled establishments. It is against this background that this paper critically ...

Abstract This project work investigates the role of auditors in the detection of fraud in some business organization. In carrying out this research work, textbooks were consulted for related literature as well as questionnaires and oral interview for collecting data. All essential departments relevant to the study were properly enlightened and the examinations of an auditor in areas of ramification were thoroughly dealt with. The study revealed that in any ...