Analytical Procedures of the Audit of Integrated Reporting of Corporate Enterprises

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to develop a system of analytical indicators that characterize the efficiency of capital use of corporate enterprises to assess the implementation of their development strategy, which can be used by independent auditors when verifying integrated reporting.The methodological basis of the analytical procedures of the audit of integrated reporting is a comparative analysis of the actually achieved performance indicators, which best present the results of the activities of corporate enterprises in the context of the prospects of using capital components to increase value with previously established indicators or previously achieved indicators. When substantiating the system of analytical indicators that are used in the audit of integrated reporting of corporate enterprises, we proceeded from the components of capital that form the value of a corporate enterprise.For the first time, a system of analytical indicators was developed to assess the efficiency of the components of various types of capital that form the value of corporate enterprise during an independent audit of integrated reporting. To ensure the transparency of the results of the evaluation of the efficiency of the use of capital, this system should not simply act as a collection of the main evaluation coefficients but embody a vision of the strategy of increasing the value of the enterprise, confirmed by cause-and-effect relationships.The practical value of the scientific research lies in the fact that the results obtained by the authors will contribute to the assessment of the effectiveness of the use of various types of capital during the audit of the integrated reporting of corporate enterprises. The use of analytical assessment in the implementation of independent assessment of integrated reporting of corporate enterprises expands the goals and tasks of auditors, and therefore, the need to improve their competencies both directly in conducting analytical assessment and in establishing signs of reliability of data for the application of analytical procedures increases. This will be useful when applying professional judgment when deciding on the selection of alternative sources of information and identifying signs of data manipulation in the integrated reporting of a corporate enterprise.