Auditing is not restricted to financial institutions and quality systems. Any organization or process can be audited to determine adherence to processes and procedures. An audit of staffing procedures ...

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 ...

For years, auditors have used interviews and workshops to conduct successful company assessments. As more businesses become digitised, auditors need to blend traditional techniques with a more ...

In one of the first steps of the new Enhancing Audit Quality (EAQ) initiative, a major effort to improve auditing of private entities, the AICPA has released a discussion paper seeking stakeholder ...

Companies engage in a range of audits, either auditing their suppliers, receiving audits from their customers, or inviting in auditing firms to undertake health checks of their businesses. Many audits ...

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.

What is the purpose of audit planning if the audit may not ultimately follow the carefully thought out plan? As may be inferred from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s words—”Plans are worthless, but planning is ...