person authorized to examine accounts; person who hears or listens
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Auditor Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
a catechumen; an examiner of accounts.
hearer, listener.
hearer, listener
Auditor Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
(a.)
A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
(a.)
A hearer or listener.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA hearer or listener.
auditor
\au"di*tor\ (&?;), n. [l. auditor, fr. audire. see audible, a.]
1. a hearer or listener.
2. a person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
3. one who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
note: in the united states government, and in the state governments, there are auditors of the treasury and of the public accounts. the name is also applied to persons employed to check the accounts of courts, corporations, companies, societies, and partnerships.
Noun
1. someone who listens attentively
(synonym) hearer, listener, attender
(hypernym) perceiver, observer, beholder
(hyponym) eavesdropper
(member-holonym) audience
2. a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit
(hypernym) student, pupil, educatee
(derivation) audit
3. a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
(hypernym) accountant, comptroller, controller
(hyponym) internal auditor
(derivation) audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect
Auditor Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
Auditor Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
The general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product. The term most commonly refers to audits in accounting, but similar concepts also exist in project management, quality management, water management, and energy conservation.
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Audit may refer to:
- Audit - an evaluation of an organization, system, process, project or product, in particular:
- Computer security audit - a process that can verify that certain standards have been met
- Configuration audit (as part of configuration management)
- Conformity assessment audit (ISO, HACCP, JCAHCO)
- Environmental audit
- Energy audit
- External Audit
- Financial audit - the examination by an independent third party of the financial statements of a company or other organization
- Clinical audit - the process formally introduced in 1993 into the United Kingdom's National Health Service
- Information technology audit - an examination of the controls within an entity's Information technology infrastructure
- Internal audit
- Management system audit (quality audit, safety audit, environmental audit)
- Performance audit - an examination of a program, function, operation or the management systems and procedures of a governmental or non-profit entity
- Quality audit - a systematic, independent examination of a quality system
- Security audit (not computer-related)
- Software audit (disambiguation) - multiple meanings
- Audit (telecommunication) - multiple meanings
- Helpdesk and incident reporting auditing
- Academic audit - the completion of a course of study for which no assessment is completed or grade awarded
- AUDIT - Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
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Auditor Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
A public officer charged by law with the duty of examining andverifying the expenditure of public funds; an accountant who performs a similarfunction for private parties.
