Statutory audit and its significance in today’s world April 8, 2020
Statutory audit is at the receiving end of lots of doubts as to its effectiveness with a growing number of corporate governance-related issues and financial irregularities. The law prescribes a statutory audit,
and accordingly, the statutory auditor makes his report on the accounts examined by him and opines if the financial statements of the company represent a true & fair view of its state of affairs and
profitability. The statutory audit is also known as external audit as external and independent auditors take part in it.
Expectation v/s reality