Audit software

The new series will highlight software developers and others who are pioneering new tools for accountants who are hungry for efficiency gains and added value.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted to update a group of old interim standards it inherited from the AICPA in 2003.

The AICPA and CPA.com announced the 2023 cohort for their Startup Accelerator program.

Investors are finding that the limited "proof of reserves" audits touted by some crypto companies don't provide much reassurance.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeing better results on its inspections by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The new standard for audit confirmations would replace an interim standard that hasn't changed for two decades.

Wolters Kluwer said that CCH Axcess Engagement is now fully integrated with CCH Axcess Financial Prep and CCH Axcess Knowledge Coach

In this edition of the Frontier, Marcum's CIO talks about how the audit solutions market may evolve in response to recent trends.

An incorrectly formatted spreadsheet caused Iceland to price the sale of its Islandsbanki stake too cheaply earlier this year, an investigation by the National Audit Office has found.

Average audit fees rose a slight 2.5% from $2,600,677 in 2020 to $2,666,659 in 2021, reflecting increased demands on auditors.

A recent study says that when auditors are given tools that they believe are more sophisticated, they are more likely to bias their evaluations towards what their supervisor wants.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has again rejiggered its standard-setting and research agendas, adding three new projects.

Leveraging artificial intelligence with financial data has enormous potential to help a firm's strategies in the days, months and years ahead.

The add-on aims to help manage downstream risks from third parties.

Companies can get a "reasonable" level of assurance on their internal controls.

Sue Coffey of the AICPA shares the latest trends and newest developments in this fast-changing corner of the profession, and looks ahead to what's next.

Two decades after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, public companies are spending more time and money trying to comply with SOX requirements, despite the increasing use of technology to automate the process.

Jennifer Wilson, the leader of Convergence Coaching, says that technological advance combined with changing client demand will lead the remote audit to become the norm.