An external audit focuses on a company's performance and compliance, specifically in the areas of accounting and finance. Accounting records are commonly examined in an external audit to make sure no ...

The strategic management process is an approach to making major decisions on your company's future direction and strategy. You identify internal strengths and weaknesses, and external threats and ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires public companies to issue financial statements. Before these statements become available to investors and the public, they need to undergo an ...

An audit is a systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating the accounts or financial records of a governmental, business, or other entity. Whereas some businesses rely on audits ...

Your external auditor should present findings in a way that is easy to understand, relevant and meaningful to practice administration. An external auditor will be focused on bringing findings to your ...

covers the skills and processes necessary to perform effective external audits and follows the processes described in ISO 19011 – the international standard for auditing. The course focuses on the ...

Although internal audit, external audit, and audit committees have different roles, their duties often intersect. External auditors may use the work of internal auditors to the extent this is ...

After two motions for reconsideration of an adverse Supreme Court decision (an action that is allowed only under ...

FCPS approved the external audit after months of pushback and questions surrounding district finances.

Academic research in internal audit provides best practices and pertinent information for external and internal auditors. Below, we summarize recent internal audit research from leading academic ...