The AICPA Auditing Standards Board’s (ASB’s) plans to finalize a new risk assessment standard at its August meeting should be welcome news for many practitioners. Risk assessment is a fundamental ...

The widespread use of information technology (IT) can introduce various risks that affect financial reporting and the audit process. To assist auditors in identifying and addressing these risks, the ...

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission released a new paper Wednesday on uniting COSO’s enterprise risk management framework with “agile” practices in internal auditing ...

The American Institute of CPAs has released a guide to help auditors deal with a new standard on assessing the risks of a material misstatement. The new audit guide, Risk Assessment in a Financial ...

Join experts from KPMG, Cisco, and Workiva as they explore how audit, accounting, and finance professionals can leverage a technology mix of data analytics, gen AI, and other tools to ramp up ...

Can you assess risk management without considering related internal controls? I don’t think so. The relationship between risk (what might happen to affect the achievement of objectives) and internal ...

Internal auditors are traditionally defined as in-house accountants who conduct regular and continuous examination of financial records and internal controls. Business risk refers to the probability ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. This article is more than 3 years old. The internal audit (IA) ...

A small business's internal control system can only be as strong as the rules, policies and procedures put in place to detect fraud, waste or abuse and protect its financial and physical assets.