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 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a report Thursday warning about significant deficiencies it is seeing in auditing firms’ assessment of risks in their clients. Processing Content ...

Tracy Harding, CPA, was on his way to work and looking forward to completing an audit he was working on. But on the way in, he heard a news report that changed the objective of his day. A local ...

At companies where internal audit and risk processes are maturing, they are now honing their operations to become more efficient and effective. It all starts with strong, open, trusting relationships ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has adopted a set of eight auditing standards related to the auditor s assessment of risk in an audit and response to that risk. The auditing standards ...

Industry expert Ann Cohen says audit committees are increasingly using AI and advanced technology to run risk analytics before those risks materialize.

Protiviti's second edition of the IT Audit Benchmarking Survey analyzes some of the underlying IT audit trends and gaps evident in organizations today. In addition to data and analysis, the survey ...

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has released its agenda for the September 8 board meeting, which includes (among other topics) presentation of a draft ...

Annually, we perform a campus wide risk assessment, with the support of Internal Audit and the University’s Compliance Program. We embraces a holistic strategy for risk identification, utilizing a ...

The amended regulations from the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) recently went into effect on January 1, 2026. The ...