Following these tips can help maintain an audit quality-control system that holds your firm to professional standards and aids in delivery of a top-notch product to clients, experts say. Focus on the ...

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 ...

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 Audit Quality Board is an advisory body composed of three independent board members — Tracey Golden, Dave Sullivan and Dan Sunderland — who are responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of ...

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 ...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has announced a settled disciplinary order sanctioning L&L CPAs, PA, its president, Weixuan Tracy Luo, engagement partner Andy Chow, and ...

SEATTLE — Quality inspectors at Boeing, angry at management’s plan to streamline and automate some quality-control processes with fewer inspectors overseeing the work of mechanics, point to a recent ...