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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the primary types of auditors? Which type interests you the most? Please explain.

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Your tutorial is 308 words and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an external and internal auditor. The less common types of auditors are also mention (all four primary types are mentioned).

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There are four primary types, internal, external, governmental and forensic auditors.

The two most common types of auditors are external financial auditor and internal auditor. There are other specialty auditors like fraud auditors and government or statutory auditors. These are narrow areas of external auditor that have specialty in certain types of engagements.

The advantages of being a financial auditor is that you typically get terrific training by the CPA firms, mentoring by a high quality supervisor, and ...

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