ROLE OF AUDIT IN MANAGING PUBLIC INTEREST ENTITIES

The article discusses current issues of interaction between external auditors and management of public interest entities with the aim of making managerial decisions aimed at ensuring the continuity of an entity, ensuring balance between resources and their sources, eliminating distortions in financial statements. Based on the study, it has been found that the definition of << public interest >> is inextricably linked with the economic benefits of interested financial statements users. Internal control (audit) is aimed at prompt response to negative effects of economic activity. Considering financial performance generally, external audit provides users with reliable information on financial and property status of the audited entity, its financial results, and changes in cash flow and equity. Management team of a public interest entity has to create an audit committee to interact with an external auditor. At the same time, an external auditor creates an additional report and informs the audit committee on the applied principles of independence, on the key partner, on the auditors involved, on the scope and timing of the statutory audit, on the audit methodology, the materiality level chosen for the audit, on business continuity of the audited entity, on the shortcomings of its quality control system, on identified violations of the law, and on the interaction of auditors and management during the audit. A letter from the auditor to those with the highest managerial authority also contains information about the internal control system and its ability to identify deviations from legislative norms. A final document informing report users on financial and property status, operating activity, cash flow and equity statements of the audited entity is an audit report, which may include the following opinions of an auditor: unqualified opinion, qualified opinion, adverse opinion, and disclaimer of opinion. The management of the audited entity makes decisions on adjusting internal control system, financial statements, and revealed deviations from legislative norms based on audit documents preceding the report and the audit report itself. The procedure for adjusting the customer's internal control system of the audit, its financial statements identified during the inspection of deviations from existing legislative standards on the basis of audit documents preceding the audit report and an additional report for the audit committee of the enterprise is considered.