Warnings from 'the audit society': an opportunity not to be missed.

The article discusses several issues on auditing as highlighted during the 1997 Seventh National Auditing Conference at the Cranfield University School of Management in England. Power sees audit and audit research as having become unquestionably interesting with the growth of the audit society. Power maintains the validity of his initial claims. As audit practice extends into diverse fields, it maintains a commonality of approach. In each case there is a common systems structure and the audit process tends to concentrate on the integrity of organizational systems of self-audit.