Public accounting firms love to land new audit clients and keep their current audit clients happy. After all, acquiring new business and retaining it is the key to growth. But revenue growth can cause ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has proposed a set of significant changes in the requirements for auditing firms' quality control systems, in a major update from the earlier standards in ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has been requiring auditing firms to conduct engagement quality reviews ever since 2009 as a way to improve audit quality, but the number of auditing ...

Quality auditing is the examination of an organization's quality control systems. The independent auditor examines how well a company ensures the quality of its products and services, and makes a ...

The Federal Aviation Administration said the agency’s 737 MAX production audit into Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems found multiple instances where the companies allegedly failed to comply with ...

Question: What is the time frame requirement with regard to post-closing quality control (QC) audits? In short, when must they be completed? Answer: HUD and VA require that FHA and VA loans be ...

The PCAOB on Monday adopted a pair of foundational auditing standards with ties to AICPA standards. AS 1000, General Responsibilities of the Auditor in Conducting an Audit, aims to enhance and ...

After a six-week audit of Boeing, federal regulators say they found quality control problems at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, one of its top suppliers. The Federal Aviation Administration says it ...

Big data, you might say, brings big challenges. Think of the time consumed capturing the right data from multiple systems across disparate databases. Then factor in the absolute explosion of data ...

The value of strong questionnaire design, complemented by the task of high-quality sample development, is not fully appreciated. Too often researchers relegate those two essential building blocks of ...