Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

After investigating the work of various scholars who provided the definition of the concept and essence of the term «revision» (audit), and by comparing the analysis with the legally defined notion and the nature of the audit, the author suggests a more precise definition of it. According to the author, the audit is a form of state financial control, which consists of documentary and actual verification of a certain complex or separate issues of financial and economic activity of the object of control, and must ensure the detection of existing facts of violation of the law, the establishment of guilty in their acceptance of officials and materially responsible persons The author also examined the circumstances of using the materials of the audit by an expert during the forensic economic expertise, as well as the participation of a specialist-economist by providing advice to the investigator, the prosecutor during the pre-audit, also by participating, together with the officials of the DASU, in conducting and drawing up the results of the audit itself.