Meaning & use
auditing
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Meanings
noununcountable
The work of officially checking and confirming an organization's financial records and accounts.
Grammar: Uncountable; used for the activity or profession as a whole, not for a single check.
Patterns
- auditing of something
- do auditing
- external/internal auditing
She works in auditing for a large accounting firm.
The company improved its auditing after the scandal.
Auditing helps investors trust the numbers a business reports.
noununcountable
The act of carefully examining any process or system to check quality or correctness.
Grammar: Used broadly for checking systems, not only money; often with of.
Patterns
- auditing of something
- quality auditing
- auditing procedures
The hospital introduced auditing of its safety records.
Regular auditing of the software caught several bugs.
Environmental auditing is now required in many industries.
Common combinations
- internal auditing
- Internal auditing checks whether staff follow company rules.
- external auditing
- External auditing is done by an outside firm.
- auditing standards
- The report must follow international auditing standards.
- auditing firm
- She joined a top auditing firm in London.
- auditing process
- The auditing process took several weeks.
Synonyms and how they differ
- inspection
- Inspection is a general check of condition or quality; auditing is usually a formal, recorded examination of accounts or systems.
- verification
- Verification focuses on proving something is true; auditing is the wider process of checking and reporting.
Word family
Commonly confused: auditing or editing?
auditing vs editing
Editing means correcting text or film; auditing means checking records or systems for accuracy.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'auditing' correctly?
Choose one answer.
As a verb, 'audit' takes a direct object: audit the accounts. The other options add unnecessary prepositions.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “auditing”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.