Companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations use auditing practices to manage compliance with internal controls. For example, an auditor looks for inconsistencies in financial records.

Every company like to believe that its employees and management are above reproach and would never do something to harm the organization. However, it is also a wise business move to have systems in ...

The report is the culmination of an internal audit, where the internal auditors describe what they found, provide evidence of the issues that were detected, and the corrective action that they ...

Why is Auditing so Important? The food industry has seen unprecedented technological advancements, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs. More importantly, these ...

A forensic audit is an examination of a firm's or individual's finances to derive evidence that can be used in a court of law or legal proceeding.

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New, large-scale regulatory obligations such as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pending climate disclosure rule will open organizations up to a number of new risks, including regulatory ...

The last in a series of eight case studies from the Product Quality Research Institute focuses on internal GMP audits. An integral part of an effective quality system in a cGMP-compliant ...

How agile is your internal audit team? Do you have speedboats or only battleships? Now is an opportunity for internal audit leaders to pause, reflect and consider whether it is time to forgo past ...

For more than a decade, I have been trying to dispel lingering myths that haunt the modern internal audit profession. Processing Content Some of the myths are based on perceptions, such as "Internal ...