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 ...

In most cases, auditors simply cannot look at every transaction that makes up a company's financial statements. As such, technical audit procedures are designed to ensure that the auditor can express ...

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 ...

How auditors assess and respond to risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, including the risk of fraud, is a critical component of audit quality. New research supported by the ...

Check out Taxmann's Audit of Financial Statements which is a comprehensive guide that assists auditors conducting financial statement audits, covering every step from auditor appointment to audit ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board intends to update some of its older auditing standards, some of which it inherited two decades ago from the American Institute of CPAs after passage of ...