Audit

Official inspections by an independent auditor help to provide investors with an accurate sense of a Company’s financial health, and many venture investors require their portfolio companies to conduct annual audits to help ensure that they receive reliable financial reporting. In the United States, rules for external audits are outlined in the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), available in PDF here.

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