Quality assurance is the business discipline concerned with improving product and service quality over time and ensuring that quality standards are consistently met in all areas of a business. Quality ...

Quality is the name of the game when your business is in the business of product creation. Whether your product is a fast food hamburger or hardware that may one day become part of a jet airplane, ...

In one of the first steps of the new Enhancing Audit Quality (EAQ) initiative, a major effort to improve auditing of private entities, the AICPA has released a discussion paper seeking stakeholder ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said, “It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did them wrong.” However, many audit firms think about quality as a task carried out at the end of ...

A power quality audit is an organized, straightforward process that allows you to assess and monitor the electrical health of your facility. While it might seem complex at first, the audit process can ...

Audit is a loaded term, but as Louis Columbus of IQMS explains, it's time to take another look. Internal audits are a powerful tool for quality - and quality is the new marketing. Here's how an IQMS ...

(Reuters) - Wall Street's top regulator on Monday gave the nod to new accounting standards set by a watchdog agency, part of an effort to address concerns about the prevalence of poor quality audits.

Confidence in audit quality has increased but many stakeholders have reported only a partial or limited understanding of the ...

The American Institute of CPAs has released an analysis of single audits and found several factors contribute to audit quality, indicating why some firms are having problems doing the audits. In a ...

The Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee (UGC) will conduct a Quality Assurance (QA) audit on sub-degree programs offered by UGC-funded universities. In the previous rounds of ...

When performed correctly, audits of employee benefit plan financial statements can be extremely rewarding for a firm and its auditors. It takes specialized expertise to excel in employee benefit plan ...