Data and information management

The Institute of Internal Auditors has published a new guide to help auditors deal with the challenges of “big data,” the huge volumes of structured and unstructured information that’s being generated at a fast pace by today’s systems.

The omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress includes a number of priorities and directives for the Internal Revenue Service.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is seeing signs of progress on audit quality in its inspections.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning June 18 as the tentative date for moving its e-Services platform to what it promises will be more secure and modern technology.

Revenue, costs, profit. Those were the old magic numbers. But companies that embrace big data can do much better.

Three users share their experiences with different DMSes.

The new visualization and analytics app features real-time pivot tables and more.

A grand jury in Georgia has indicted an Internal Revenue Service employee for stealing taxpayers’ identities and filing for tax refunds with their names.

The Internal Revenue Service’s new procedure for authenticating withholding information did not go completely smoothly this past tax season, although it did hold promise for combating identity theft and tax fraud.

The American Institute of CPAs has introduced a cybersecurity risk management reporting framework to help auditors and companies to demonstrate what they are doing to safeguard against data breaches, hacking and other technology-related dangers.

Businesses are particularly vulnerable to fraud because their information is often part of public record.

As Tax Day looms near, cybercriminals will be making a strong push down the final stretch.

Cybersecurity must remain a central concern as filing is increasingly digitized.

Practice Platform now sends push notifications and lets accounting professionals start item-related comment threads with their customers.

A data breach in the Internal Revenue Service’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, tool, which the IRS was forced to shut down last month, may have affected up to 100,000 taxpayers.

The home stretch of tax season will see fraudsters’ biggest push – but cybersecurity expert Kevin O’Brien says that taxpayers and tax professionals accountants will still need to protect themselves after that.

The Internal Revenue Service saw a sharp drop-off in tax returns in the first half of filing season, according to a new report.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified at a Senate hearing Thursday about tax season, a day after a group of House Republicans wrote to President Trump asking him to fire Koskinen.

A new report from IBM’s security research group sheds light on how tax scam emails are proliferating.

Internal audit departments are increasingly relying on data analytics technology and hiring more people who have sophisticated data analysis skills, according to a new survey.