auditor
A person who checks a company's accounts or records to make sure they are correct.
A person or firm whose job is to officially examine an organization's financial records, controls, or operations to check that they are accurate, lawful, and properly managed.
Someone who goes to a class but does not get a grade or credit for it.
A person who attends a college or university class with permission but does not receive academic credit or a grade.
A formal word for someone who listens.
A person who listens, especially to a speech, lecture, story, or performance.
- Base: auditor
- Plural: auditors
auditor general
1Senior government spending auditor
A high-level government official who checks how public money is used.
- The Auditor General criticized the ministry's record-keeping.
- A report from the auditor general found waste in the infrastructure program.
- Parliament asked the Auditor General to review the agency's spending.
- The Auditor General checks government spending.
- The report came from the Auditor General.
auditor's report
1Official audit findings document
The written report produced by an auditor.
- The auditor's report noted several problems with the company's internal controls.
- Investors read the auditor's report before approving the financial statements.
- The annual accounts included an independent auditor's report.
- The auditor's report was short.
- We read the auditor's report.
external auditor
1Outside independent auditor
An auditor from outside the company.
- The company appointed an external auditor to review its annual accounts.
- External auditors must be able to question management's figures.
- The external auditor issued a clean opinion on the financial statements.
- The external auditor does not work for the company.
- They hired an external auditor.
internal auditor
1Auditor inside an organization
An auditor who works inside the organization they check.
- She works as an internal auditor for a bank.
- The internal auditor reviewed the company's expense claims.
- Management asked the internal auditor to assess the new payment system.
- An internal auditor works for the company.
- The internal auditor checked the records.
it auditor
1Auditor of information systems
An auditor who checks computer systems and technology controls.
- The IT auditor reviewed who had access to customer data.
- An IT auditor identified weaknesses in the company's backup procedures.
- The bank hired IT auditors to test its cybersecurity controls.
- The IT auditor checked the computer system.
- An IT auditor looks at technology risks.
night auditor
1Overnight hotel accounts clerk
A hotel worker who works at night and checks the day's accounts.
- He works as a night auditor at a downtown hotel.
- The night auditor checked in late guests and balanced the day's receipts.
- The hotel posted a vacancy for a night auditor.
- The night auditor works at the hotel.
- A night auditor checks the day's hotel records.
quality auditor
1Checker of quality standards
An auditor who checks whether work or products meet quality rules.
- The quality auditor checked whether the factory followed its safety procedures.
- A quality auditor reviewed the supplier's production records.
- The company hired a quality auditor before applying for certification.
- The quality auditor checked the factory process.
- A quality auditor looks for quality problems.
tax auditor
1Examiner of tax records
An auditor who checks whether taxes were reported and paid correctly.
- A tax auditor asked the restaurant to provide three years of receipts.
- The tax auditor found that several deductions were not supported by records.
- She answered questions from the tax auditor during the review.
- The tax auditor checked our tax records.
- A tax auditor works with tax documents.