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 ...

The regulator has said it intends to place greater weight on oversight of firms’ internal quality and control systems.

The concepts of quality assurance and audits are two distinct ideas that serve the same purpose: improving quality, consistency and reliability in operations. Quality assurance is more of an abstract ...

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 ...

High-quality audits are essential to capital market operations. These audits are planned and executed by highly skilled, independent auditors in consultation with independent audit committees. In turn ...

Testing payroll during an audit can be a tedious manual process, the kind of grunt work that has long been viewed as the “dues” paid by young auditors before they advance in their careers. Recently, ...

14 April 2010 MUSCAT -- The Quality Audit Report of the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) has been published on the OAC website (www.oac.gov.om) today. This is the sixth Quality Audit Report to be ...

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 ...

Engaging external auditors to perform procedures outside the financial statement audit related to non-GAAP financial measures or key performance indicators (KPIs) can raise public confidence in this ...

A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) report released earlier this month showed a need for improvement in audits of employee benefit plan financial statements. The report is the result of a study that ...

Confidence in audit quality has increased but many stakeholders have reported only a partial or limited understanding of the scope of auditor responsibilities, according to new findings. A document ...

Quality inspectors at Boeing, angry at management’s plan to streamline and automate some quality-control processes with fewer inspectors overseeing the work of mechanics, point to a recent ...