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Risk Lurks in Spreadsheets Recently the Institute of Internal Auditors issued recommendations on evaluating the security of "user-developed applications," or UDAs. |
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April 1, 2010
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October 10, 2013 |
Thomson Reuters Launches Audit Essential Thomson Reuters introduced PPC's SMART Practice Aids - Audit Essential, a simplified audit workflow tool designed to make conducting audit engagements easier. It is integrated with Thomson Reuters' productivity suite Checkpoint for tax and accounting professionals. |
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Auditing The Auditors J.D. Power & Associates is now evaluating the very audit firms that are supposed to protect investors from improprieties. |
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Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. |
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The Auditors Are Coming, the Auditors Are Coming... and That Could Be Good News for You Corporate accountability has Washington's attention, and now the auditors have their pencils sharpened for IT processes and projects. Here are nine strategies for working with auditors before, during and after an accounting exam. |
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Risk Management Tops Audit Committee's Stress List Highlights of the latest quarterly research in conjunction with Grant Thornton LLP. |
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You Complete My Audit The relationship between accounting firms and their corporate clients has been shaky over the past decade, to say the least, but amid the tumult of Sarbanes-Oxley and thorny auditor-client issues lie long-lasting relationships, some that have endured for more than 50 years. |
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Auditor Independence: Separation Anxiety Many tax services may be "inappropriate" work for auditors to perform for their audit clients, says the SEC. |
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Can This Relationship Be Saved? Auditors and CFOs aren't the friends they once were, but they are working out their differences. |
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Can We Talk? Ironically, as the amount of communication between auditors and top executives has increased, the content of these conversations has become much more restricted. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is partly the reason. |
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"O Canada" Readers comment on America's banking woes and other topics. |
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Subprime Suspects Just about everyone, it seems, is being held to blame for the financial meltdown. But what role auditors played, if any, is far from clear. |
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Making Audits More Audible New rules would require auditors to speak up about possible problems, and describe in more detail what they do and don't look at. |
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The Enforcer If audit firms don't voluntarily improve their processes, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) chairman William McDonough promises he'll make them. |
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