Audit & Accounting

Jeremy Migliara joins the firm’s State and Local Tax Group

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a release to provide information to audit committees about its inspection process and how they might use the inspection reports to question their auditing firms.

Audit and compliance technology maker ACL Services Ltd. and global information optimization software and service provider Datawatch Corporation formed a strategic alliance that will help provide audit, risk and compliance professionals with the ability to analyze data trapped in PDFs, HTML files, print files and other content-rich data sources.

The Spirit of Accounting

Top stories from the past month in audit and assurance.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has strengthened corporate governance and improved audit quality in the past decade, according to a new report by Ernst & Young, "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act at 10," which marks the 10-year anniversary of the landmark legislation.

While significant progress has been made in both technology and processes to establish best practices in audit management, a common pitfall remains for many organizations: disparate silos of information and business processes. These different workflows contribute to a new type of business risk -- the audit performance gap.

We officially crowned a Ms. July -- and are on the hunt for a Mr. or Ms. August, September, October and beyond, in our Accountant of the Month contest.

Firms have to choose a path in fighting commodization

Mobile trends drive opportunities and responsibilities for CPAs