RELEVANCE OF AUDITING IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC COMPANIES

the purpose of this study are: (1) To ascertain the role of audit towards accountability in public companies. (2) To determine whether audit can actually make difference to the deplorable state of accountability in public companies. (3) To enable the employers of auditors have a good knowledge of what audit is all about. (4) To highlight on the probable consequences of having the accounts of the public companies unaudited. (5) To play the loopholes that the public companies have been denies the much needed right to accountability.