Whether your firm is small or one of the largest organizations in the country, it pays to develop and maintain a strategic audit plan, according to Lorin Venable, CPA, CGMA. As assistant inspector ...

When performing annual retirement plan financial audits, plan sponsors and their auditors should look for potential “red flags” for regulators. James E. Merklin, partner in charge of Assurance ...

Investors, business owners, management and company employees rely on valid accounting methods for the stability of investments and an accurate assessment of the overall company health. All companies, ...

An audit is the highest level of assurance a CPA firm can provide that the financial statements follow the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), or some other reasonable basis of accounting ...

For decades, auditors have faced the competing pressures of enhancing audit effectiveness while performing audits more efficiently. By investing more time—and the right procedures—in the planning ...

Internal auditors looking to get more involved in information systems audits have a new resource to help guide the process, courtesy of ISACA, a global association of professionals focused on IS audit ...

One of internal audit's values is to tell management when the controls to manage risks and assure opportunities aren't working. Internal audit should have a plan for the work it will do, and by now we ...

Plan Audit CPA reveals why specialized 401k auditing ensures better compliance, faster processing, and flat-fee ...

In July 2019, the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued a revised Statement on Auditing Standards No. 136 entitled, “Forming an Opinion and ...

Accounting regulators are planning to give auditors some new advice in two forms: a generalized report on its 2004 inspection findings—providing blanket advice on auditing for fraud and internal ...