If a company breaches of accounting rules and ethics, can be held liable for legal sanctions against him. You can deliberately deceive its investors and lenders with false or misleading figures in its financial report. This is where the checks come in. The tests are a way to keep misleading financial information to a minimum.
Auditors of the PCA as Highway Patrol officers, subject to the rules of the road and speed up issue of tickets to a minimum. An examination may reveal problems that the company was not aware of.
After an examination, the CPA prepares a short report that the company their annual accounts according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or not ready. All listed companies are required to have annual audits by independent auditors. Companies whose shares on the NYSE or the NASDAQ must be audited by firms outside the CPA. For a listed company, the costs of conducting an annual audit of the cost of doing business, the price a company pays to the public markets for capital and its shares publicly traded on the site of force.
Although federal law does not require audits to, private companies, banks and other lenders to private companies insist on audited financial statements.
If lenders do not require financial statements, the owner of a company must decide whether a test is a good investment. Instead of a check, you really can not afford, many smaller companies have an outside CPA come regularly to his views on accounting and financial reporting guidance. But if the CPA is an audit, it must be very careful not to express an opinion on the annual external.
reported without a careful examination of the evidence supporting the amounts in the financial statements, the CPA is able to make an opinion on the financial statements prepared by the accounts of the company.

