hare your views on how auditing as a function can improve sustainable business practices, including ethical conduct. In your discussion, highlight the state of audit practices in Ghana vis-a-vis sustainable business practices and ethical conduct and suggest a conceptual framework of how the existing legal regime can interact with auditing to achieve the United Nation SDG goals. (2500 words needed).

hare your views on how auditing as a function can improve sustainable business practices, including ethical conduct. In your discussion, highlight the state of audit practices in Ghana vis-a-vis sustainable business practices and ethical conduct and suggest a conceptual framework of how the existing legal regime can interact with auditing to achieve the United Nation SDG goals. (2500 words needed).

Contemporary Auditing

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ISBN:9781337650380

Author:KNAPP

Publisher:KNAPP

Chapter8: International Cases

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