When you hear the term audit, you may immediately think of a team of IRS officers rummaging through your files looking for discrepancies and errors in your business's tax returns. However, financial ...

Audits are an important part of a compliance program and help monitor compliance obligations, identify non-compliance, and quantify overpayments. But, planning the audit is often just as important as ...

The authors of “ Eight Habits of Highly Effective Audit Committees” (Sept. 07, page 46) have identified relevant recommendations. However, these recommendations are for an audit committee that is a ...

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a four-part series that is part of a larger initiative the AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB) has undertaken to understand and support technology use in ...

An existent compliance plan not only detects incorrect coding practices, it may also be considered by some federal agencies when determining whether reasonable efforts were taken to avoid and detect ...

This concentration equips students with skills and tools required to examine and evaluate an organization's information technology infrastructure, policies and operations. It focuses on the process of ...

Statistical output, e.g. totals or means of a target variable, are often published for subpopulations that are defined by categorical domain variables (such as categories of educational level, ...

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 ...

"Out with the old" is a mistake commonly made by new commanders and staffs--even me as a National Guard company commander--when it comes to documents. In an effort to reduce the unnecessary clutter ...