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The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the regulatory watchdog for the accounting industry, has set a deadline of June 2024 for the Big Four accounting firms to separate audit practices from the ...

An accounting audit performs a necessary function of assuring that a company not only is being truthful in its financial reporting but also that the company's operations are working as intended.

May is Internal Audit Awareness Month. On the off chance that didn’t make it onto your calendar, I’d like to make the case that rethinking internal audit’s potential is time well spent. Processing ...

Rapid technological advancements pose a significant challenge to internal audit functions at organizations of all sizes. “Not only does internal audit need to have a point of view on what risks come ...

Internal auditing is an independent appraisal function that is performed in a wide variety of companies, institutions, and governments. What distinguishes internal auditors from governmental auditors ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a new report on how internal auditors can take advantage of metrics to get better results. Processing Content The report, “ Metrics by Design: A practical approach ...

For any business or organisation, there will always be risks that could ultimately tarnish its reputation, dampen stakeholder confidence or in worst case scenario, sink the organisation/business. Top ...

Humans have a tendency to make things more complicated than they really are. To capture the flavor of my sentiment, all you need to do is watch the beginning scenes of “History of the World, Part I” ...

Parkview Health revamps internal audit by aligning enterprise risk management to provide leaders a unified view of organizational risk and ...

In two previous articles I wrote on accountability and the Public Accounts Committees (PACs) for these pages, I had discussed the critical need for rebuilding Pakistan’s system of parliamentary ...