Excerpt from Auditors, Their Duties and Responsibilities, 1922: Under the Companies Acts, Partnership Acts, and Acts Relating to Executors and Trustees, and to Private Audits Since the publication of the tenth Edition several Acts of Parliament of importance to Auditors have been passed. The principal one is the Railway Companies (accounts and Returns) Act, 1911, which prescribed a new yearly form of Accounts and Returns for Railway Companies in place of half-yearly Accounts and Returns which had been in force since 1868. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.