{"id":24837,"date":"2019-11-06T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edenred.es\/blog\/?p=24837"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:20:23","slug":"informe-auditoria-definicion-y-tipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenred.es\/en\/blog\/informe-auditoria-definicion-y-tipos\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit report: definition and types of reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

An audit report is a document that presents the annual accounts or financial statements of an enterprise<\/strong>. This is a very important document, as it provides quality information on the state of the company and, consequently, also makes it possible to know whether urgent measures need to be taken to ensure the viability and continuity of the company in question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What is an audit report and why is it important?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An audit report is a document that must be carried out by an external auditor<\/strong> (external to the company to be audited) and which provides useful and accurate information about the company's annual accounts or the financial statements<\/a><\/strong> of the company. This information is of vital importance for the company, since it can be taken as the \u201c...\".\u201cstate of health of the company<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An audit report shows the state of the company's accounts, the company's liquidity, assets and liabilities, as well as all the elements that may make a company solvent or not, as well as know what the money has been spent on<\/a><\/strong> that the company had. In other words, it serves to determine whether a company is doing a good job or whether, on the contrary, the strategy needs to be redefined in order to balancing income and expenditure<\/strong> and thus ensure continuity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of audit report resolutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once the external auditor carries out the audit report, four different outcomes are possible:<\/p>\n\n\n\n