A quality audit is a review of the performance of one area of a business and an analysis of why the results occurred. Even small businesses can benefit from simple quality audits, which can help spot ...

A power quality audit is an organized, straightforward process that allows you to assess and monitor the electrical health of your facility. While it might seem complex at first, the audit process can ...

Quality is the name of the game when your business is in the business of product creation. Whether your product is a fast food hamburger or hardware that may one day become part of a jet airplane, ...

Big data, you might say, brings big challenges. Think of the time consumed capturing the right data from multiple systems across disparate databases. Then factor in the absolute explosion of data ...

Tone at the top and appropriate deployment of personnel are among the most important indicators of a quality audit, according to a survey of CPA firms performed by the AICPA. The Practice Monitoring ...

Testing payroll during an audit can be a tedious manual process, the kind of grunt work that has long been viewed as the “dues” paid by young auditors before they advance in their careers. Recently, ...

Auditing standards state that inquiry alone does not provide sufficient evidence regarding the lack of material misstatement (AU-C §500, Audit Evidence, ¶.A2), yet regulatory inspections and ...

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 ...

Quality inspectors at Boeing, angry at management’s plan to streamline and automate some quality-control processes with fewer inspectors overseeing the work of mechanics, point to a recent ...