Featured speaker, Joe Horowitz, shares his cybersecurity expertise on bridging the gap between governance, risk management and compliance practices to enhance organizational security.
Audits
3 Roles on an Audit Engagement
GAGAS section 4.10 reminds us professional maturity depends on our ability to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity. The 3 roles on an audit engagement generally include non-supervisory auditors, supervisory auditors and partners/directors.
Colin Powell’s Rules for Evidence
In a 2014 book, former Secretary of State Powell explained how he judges evidence and where he went wrong with his speech to the UN on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. These same principles apply to audit evidence.
Communicating Audit Results So Management Loves Them
Featured speaker, John J. Hall, provides this information on how to get management excited about your audit recommendations by communicating audit results the ‘right way!’
Audit Recommendations: 5 Tips for Eliciting Change
Don’t leave audit recommendations up to interpretation! Follow these 5 steps to ensure your auditee is on the right path to elicit change.
Testing Journal Entries in Audits
Our friend, Charles B. Hall, CPA CFE of CPA Hall Talk, shares the importance of testing journal entries in audits, no matter how good your internal controls are!
Executive Summaries
Oh no… Another boring audit report? Not this time! Implement these tips and tricks to jazz it up by always including a dynamic and well-written executive summary!
Performance Audit vs. Financial Audit
So how do you tell the difference? Performance audit vs. financial audit? You might expect that it would be as simple as saying that a financial audit deals with money and a performance audit does not. But oh no! The audit standards are never that straightforward. As a matter of fact, the most comprehensive audit […]