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 ...

The annual audit plan is typically out-of-date even before it is approved by the audit committee. It’s quite a few years since I first started talking about “auditing at the speed of risk” (since at ...

Risks in accounting and audit firms are most often described by the audit risk model. This model describes how the responsibilities of management and auditors combine to determine the risk of the ...

The Case Western Reserve’s Board of Trustees and management place assets at risk to achieve established priorities and goals. A key function of the Office of Internal Audit Services is to understand, ...

AMES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Workiva (NYSE:WK), provider of the world’s leading connected reporting and compliance platform, today announced that Alcon (NYSE:ALC) is using the Workiva platform to ...

Cybersecurity ranks among the top priorities for audit committees, enterprise risk management, and finance and internal audit talent, outside of financial reporting and internal controls, according to ...

Nobody really likes being audited, but it's an important function to ensure the practices and policies of a company and/or individual are above board. And, as with all jobs, someone's gotta do it.