A semi-annual or annual internal audit allows you to gauge the effectiveness of your business's internal control system. Unlike an external audit, which focuses on determining whether financial ...

While audits are not designed to root out every instance of fraud, auditors have a responsibility to detect material misstatements in the company's financial ...

The report is the culmination of an internal audit, where the internal auditors describe what they found, provide evidence of the issues that were detected, and the corrective action that they ...

THE ASB ISSUED AN EXPOSURE DRAFT designed to expand audit procedures to address material financial statement fraud. Comments on the proposed changes are due by May 31, 2002. THE ED EMPHASIZES ...

Auditors are expected to comply with the requirements in AU-C Section 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit, in conducting financial statement audits. As academics who perform ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Members of IFTA Inc. approved major changes to some of the fuel tax organization’s documents in a bid to provide truck fleets and ...

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has released a new standard for audit evidence for private companies, updating the existing standards in recognition of the increasing role ...

The AICPA has issued additional guidance regarding the independent private-sector audit, or IPSA, which is required in some circumstances under the conflicts minerals rules. (Note that AICPA’s ...