While audits are not designed to root out every instance of fraud, auditors have a responsibility to detect material misstatements in the company's financial ...

Auditors use different audit procedures to test management's assertions about a company's financial statements. The techniques employed depend upon the strength of the evidence desired, requirements ...

THE ASB ISSUED AN EXPOSURE DRAFT designed to expand audit procedures to address material financial statement fraud. Comments on the proposed changes are due by May 31, 2002. THE ED EMPHASIZES ...

The report is the culmination of an internal audit, where the internal auditors describe what they found, provide evidence of the issues that were detected, and the corrective action that they ...

A new PCAOB related-party auditing standard may cause audit firms to revise their audit plans and methodologies to ensure that newly required procedures are fully incorporated into all phases of the ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Members of IFTA Inc. approved major changes to some of the fuel tax organization’s documents in a bid to provide truck fleets and ...

Internal and external audit systems provide companies with a method for testing internal controls, a process that can help detect or prevent fraud while making sure the company stays compliant, stops ...

Any business that uses assets should hold a regular asset inventory audit in order to track important data like the number, condition, and location of all assets. The audit is a cost-effective method ...

The following procedure outlines the process for the Classification division of Human Resources to evaluate positions. If the job description no longer applies to the job duties being performed, a job ...

Western Illinois University supports an Internal Auditing Department as an administrative staff function and as an independent appraisal function to examine and evaluate University business or ...