A quality audit is a review of the performance of one area of a business and an analysis of why the results occurred. Even small businesses can benefit from simple quality audits, which can help spot ...

Just as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance reshaped corporate governance for public companies, QC 1000 is designed to ensure that ...

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released a new publication with the goal of raising awareness of the key elements of audit quality. The document, “ A Framework for Audit ...

A product audit -- often referred to as a quality audit -- is an inspection of a final product before delivering it to a supplier or a customer. Any company, including small businesses, should conduct ...

The Audit Quality Board is an advisory body composed of three independent board members — Tracey Golden, Dave Sullivan and Dan Sunderland — who are responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of ...

A power quality audit is an organized, straightforward process that allows you to assess and monitor the electrical health of your facility. While it might seem complex at first, the audit process can ...

Businesses today operate in a dynamic, fast-moving, digitally enabled, and fiercely competitive global economy. To respond, organizations must constantly adapt – and so must their auditors, by ...

hile accounting regulators maintain audit quality is independent of firm size, others argue that large firms produce a higher quality audit than small firms. Prior research yielded mixed conclusions, ...

Audit is a loaded term, but as Louis Columbus of IQMS explains, it's time to take another look. Internal audits are a powerful tool for quality - and quality is the new marketing. Here's how an IQMS ...

Audit firms are increasingly performing audits using data and analytics tools and techniques and have invested substantial resources in recent years into new technologies. However, auditors have ...

Studies of former partners of audit firms that have assumed management positions at audit clients have raised concerns, at least pre-SOX, about potentially lower audit quality, perhaps reflecting ...