What qualities do you think an auditor should have?

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Rizk Elazhary Popular answer

Hello Dear colleagues ,

I agree with Tahreer Kazaal

intelligence and honesty are very important and I like to add insistence and patience ...

Best Regards

Csaba Csáki

do you mean an internal auditor - or looking for an external one?

also auditin what: financial, processes, IT, ...?

Navitha Singh Sewpersadh

Thank you for your response @csaba. When a firm is looking to appoint an external auditing firm.

Tahreer Kazaal

Intelligence and honesty ...

Rizk Elazhary

Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak

Precision, commitment, and productivity!

Orlando M Lourenço

Intelligence, commitment, abity to linsten to different voices, and skills to deal with stituations of interpersonal conflict

Thank you so much for your valuable insights Orlando M Lourenço , Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak, Rizk Elazhary , Tahreer Kazaal

Work skill and honesty

Srini Vasan

Fair, unbiased and honest work is what should be expected of an external auditor.Never hire a firm who makes you feel good because they provide the answer you are looking for. A fine case study involving Enron and its auditing firm Arthur Anderson can be found here: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/14/04/4429482/how-the-arthur-anderson-and-enron-fraud-changed-accounting-forever

Thank you Srini Vasan for the article is was very useful.