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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NFRA flags shortcomings in audit quality inspections of seven CA firms, citing gaps in independence, HR policies, ...