Audit continues its need to mature. Changes in professional standards, technological innovation, evolving compliance and regulatory requirements, and an increasing competitive environment are forcing ...
The COVID-19 crisis creates heightened risk of improper financial reporting. Audit committees can and should take steps to help prevent such frauds. Audit Committees should maintain the appropriate ...
The coronavirus pandemic has raised a number of questions about how to properly audit financial statements when internal controls have changed due to dramatic changes in an entity’s business volume ...
THE ASSESSMENT OF COMPANY-LEVEL CONTROLS is a critical part of complying with section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley. The PCAOB says public companies must assess the design and operating effectiveness of these ...
Institutions with federal research dollars, particularly from the National Science Foundation (NSF), know they may be subject to an audit by the funding agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). NSF ...
Audits are an essential, if tedious, part of a company’s risk management strategy. Before the advent of cloud computing, compliance and audit teams had manual procedures and checklists in place to ...
In the early days of computers, many people were suspicious of their ability to replace human beings performing complex tasks. The first business software applications were mostly in the domain of ...
New Delhi (India), September 3 (ANI): The Centre has notified the creation of a new body for managing environment audits, aimed at bringing transparency in checking industries and projects for ...
A state comptroller's audit of the Department of Conservation's Air Pollution Control Permit Program details lack of oversight An audit by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli of the state Department of ...