Editor’s note: The author is technical director of the AICPA Center for Plain English Accounting. Addressing audit risk in financial statements with high levels of substantive procedures toward the ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a report Thursday warning about significant deficiencies it is seeing in auditing firms’ assessment of risks in their clients. Processing Content ...

Risk assessment is at the core of every audit. The goals of identifying, assessing, and responding to risks of material misstatement (“risks”) drive every audit procedure, from gaining an ...

The Auditing Standards Board recently issued eight new auditing standards, Nos. 104-111, collectively referred to as the risk assessment standards. The new standards will change many of the planning ...

Protiviti's second edition of the IT Audit Benchmarking Survey analyzes some of the underlying IT audit trends and gaps evident in organizations today. In addition to data and analysis, the survey ...

Annually, we perform a campus wide risk assessment, with the support of Internal Audit and the University’s Compliance Program. We embraces a holistic strategy for risk identification, utilizing a ...

The IQ Working Group has defined a pragmatic risk-based approach to audit trail review, where it is only required for high impact GxP data. Audit trail review (ATR) is a mechanism to detect potential ...