The article presents the authors’ research in the field of the history of the area as the audit of the monitoring of compliance with the rules of economic behavior, laws and regulations and the public interest by economic agents. Of the processes of formation and development of the audit profession is considered by the authors as a consequence of the development of public relations, in confirmation of which provides a detailed analysis of the relevant causal relationships
history of the audit development, audit techniques, concepts of audit, principles of audit
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