The firms that are starting to feel a real difference in the busy season are not working harder; they are redesigning the way the audit process runs.

Stop setting blind goals and start benchmarking. This simple three-step audit helps cattle producers move from "guesswork" to ...

Before the introduction of payroll software, calculating employees’ wages and tax withholdings was tedious. It meant making painstaking manual calculations for every employee, and those calculations ...

Any business that uses assets should hold a regular asset inventory audit in order to track important data like the number, condition, and location of all assets. The audit is a cost-effective method ...

The latest wave of artificial intelligence (AI) technology promises to offer the technological leap that large and small firms have long awaited to transform the audit. Many rote tasks make aspects of ...

Internal Audit identifies all auditable activities and relevant risk factors, and assesses their significance through an annual risk assessment, utilizing the Committee of Sponsoring Organization's ...

Here’s why it’s important to conduct a content audit — and a step-by-step guide on how to do it effectively. A content audit is an in-depth analysis of previously published, or “old,” content that ...

Samantha Bowling, CPA, CGMA, knows a thing or two about how accounting firms can use technology to boost audit quality. As managing partner at Upper Marlboro, Md.-based Garbelman Winslow CPAs, Bowling ...

There’s nothing more unpleasant than a root canal, except maybe an audit of your IT operations. Yet with regular audits being a component of regulations such as PCI and SOX, there’s no escaping them.

The profession needs to engage seriously with whether the binary audit opinion remains the right product for the public interest it is meant to serve.