With interactions between audit committees and external auditors a focus of a steady stream of news recently, a new tool has been developed to assist audit committees in annual evaluations of external ...

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires public companies to issue financial statements. Before these statements become available to investors and the public, they need to undergo an ...

Projects often entail a significant investment of capital and employee time. If the project goes off track, with missed milestones or a ballooning budget, many businesses choose to conduct a project ...

Business owners often spend copious amounts of time managing their company's financial information. Accounting is the primary tool for recording, reporting and analyzing financial information.

According to a global survey of business leaders conducted by KPMG and Forbes Insights, nearly all executives (98%) say their external audit firm uses advanced technology extensively. There’s little ...

ASCs should incorporate an external audit into their compliance programs. Formal coding audit protocol should define the purpose of the audit, frequency of review and sample size. The difficult part ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - As more large firms go bankrupt in the UK, external auditors and the body that oversees them, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), continue to be ...

Academic research in internal audit provides best practices and pertinent information for external and internal auditors. Below, we summarize recent internal audit research from leading academic ...