In an effort to make the audit process more efficient and effective, the AICPA Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC) has developed voluntary audit data standards that would standardize the ...

Most resolutions are built on vague impressions instead of hard numbers, and some people are responding with a new type of resolution.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has published a new guide to help auditors deal with the challenges of “big data,” the huge volumes of structured and unstructured information that’s being generated ...

Businesses today retain a lot of data about both internal operations and their customers. This information is one of your strongest assets, but that also makes it one of the most valuable to criminals ...

Most companies are subject to audit, be these quality or financial. Audits, as defined in the internal standards for quality audits, ISO 19011:2018—Guidelines for auditing management systems, are a ...

In this, the first in a two-part series, we walk through the initial steps businesses need to take to mobilize their data: a data audit and data consolidation. It has been argued that “data is the ...

DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence arm, is building a data auditing project for DeepMind Health, according to a DeepMind blog post. The blog post, written by DeepMind’s CoFounder and Head of ...

During a market data audit, an exchange or data vendor—or a third party acting on their behalf—conducts an in-depth assessment of the data a firm uses from them. The goal is to ensure the end-user is ...

Data security, once the realm of the IT department, has catapulted into a headline-grabbing topic in 2018, especially in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress in April.

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has warned all data controllers and processors in the country that the 15th March 2021 deadline for the filing of their annual data audit ...