When Ed Wilkins, CPA, talks to audit committees about adding data analytics to the audit process, he explains to them that it usually takes three years for investment in a complex audit analytic to ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been working on ways to soup up its audit practice by leveraging data analytics technology. “We’d like to think that we have been transforming the way we audit for decades, ...
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 ...
The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has issued a proposed standard on audit evidence to update an older standard and include new technologies such as data analytics and blockchain ...
CPAs CAN USE DATA ON AUDIT MALPRACTICE claims filed with CNA, which underwrites 22,000 CPA firms in the AICPA professional liability insurance program, to help them avoid high-cost claims when they ...
ESG and sustainability data are increasingly used by investors, regulators, customers, employees, and other stakeholders to assess the sustainability and value of a company. This expanded use has ...
Digital transformation of analytical processes requires suppliers to design and implement audit trail(s) (AT) that are fit for intended use in a regulated laboratory. In addition, second person review ...
An analytical review in accounting is used by auditors to assess the reasonableness of account balances. Examples of analytical reviews of financial statements broadly include vertical and horizontal ...