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contrôle des commissaires aux comptes

English translation: Statutory Auditors' review (report)


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08:13 Apr 26, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting
French term or phrase: contrôle des commissaires aux comptes
(or "... du commissaire aux comptes").

Surprised not to find this as a whole expression in any online source of info... my question is, given that "contrôle" is best translated by "audit", what's the best expression in English to use? Presumably not "Auditors' audit". So "Auditors' control"? "Auditors' check"? Or maybe just "Audit"?
Mpoma
Local time: 22:21
English translation:Statutory Auditors' review (report)
Explanation:
You often find it translated this way...; the report bit is optional, and I would leave it out...but it avoids "Statutory Auditors' audit"
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Rebecca Davis
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:21
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thanks
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3Statutory Auditors' review (report)
Rebecca Davis
4 +2Auditor's Inspection of the accountsRichard Vranch


Discussion entries: 2





  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Auditor's Inspection of the accounts


Explanation:
In Spanish the idea is to "intervene" in the accounts, but I think that "inspect" is correct.

Richard Vranch
Local time: 22:21
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
2 hrs
neutral  philgoddard: (a) It's important to say "statutory", and (b) it's auditors in the plural.
5 hrs
  -> it's true; it should be: "auditors' ... "
agree  rkillings: Acceptable. "external" will do just as well as "statutory" (very culture-bound); usually appears with NO qualifier in the US.
15 hrs
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Statutory Auditors' review (report)


Explanation:
You often find it translated this way...; the report bit is optional, and I would leave it out...but it avoids "Statutory Auditors' audit"

Rebecca Davis
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 102
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  JL01
2 hrs
  -> Thank you
agree  philgoddard: "Audit by the statutory auditors" would also be acceptable repetition.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, I agree; I just thought it was getting a bit "audit" heavy
agree  rkillings: 'review' better than 'report' (which is the document, the write-up of the findings and opinion). Nothing wrong with 'audit' either: writer could have put "contrôle du contrôleur légal" (the Eurospeak French variant). :-)
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