An effective compliance audit process ensures your company is following regulations and avoiding sanctions. This is especially important in public companies, as these entities are subject to federal ...

The Securities & Exchange Commission, investors and your business partners will regularly seek an audit of your records to determine if they are an accurate measure of your holdings and financial ...

Big Data is powerful. It can also be daunting. The current data analytic landscape focuses on the use of “scripts” that can identify duplicates and quantitative outliers. Yet, there is little guidance ...

Editor’s note: The author is technical director of the AICPA Center for Plain English Accounting. Addressing audit risk in financial statements with high levels of substantive procedures toward the ...

If you are a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) trying to grow, you are probably already familiar with auditing. An audit is the process of independently reviewing and verifying a company's ...

In the November 2012 issue of EHS Today, I introduced the concept of the safety sweep audit as a supplemental tool for the detailed safety inspection mechanism commonly used in industry. The article ...

Each year, the Chief Audit Officer develops an audit plan for the University. Using a risk-based methodology, and in collaboration with University leadership, the Chief Audit Officer analyzes ...

The Case Western Reserve’s Board of Trustees and management place assets at risk to achieve established priorities and goals. A key function of the Office of Internal Audit Services is to understand, ...