The most recent edition of the AICPA’s A&A Focus broadcast, held Sept. 4, provided members with updates on the latest developments in accounting, auditing, and assurance. Hosted by Bob Durak, CPA, ...

Audits are an essential, if tedious, part of a company’s risk management strategy. Before the advent of cloud computing, compliance and audit teams had manual procedures and checklists in place to ...

The audit for a manufacturer is nearly identical to the audit of any other business enterprise, except for the additional procedures around the company's inventory balances. Auditors are required to ...

Technology has wrought many a change in your average accounting firm — completely revamping tax prep and bookkeeping — but it has had much less impact on the audit function over the past two decades.

One of my more aspirational career goals has been to increase the efficiency of validation testing without lowering the quality. Testing of automated systems is essential to ensure quality in both the ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a staff publication highlighting problems it's seeing with audits of journal entries. Processing Content The publication, Audit Focus: Journal ...