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- Financial Accountability System Resource Guide: Auditing
- Two general types of audits may be conducted for governmental entities including school districts: financial audits and performance audits. The primary differences between the two types are the objectives of the audit. Financial audits include financial statement audits and financial related audits. Financial audits are designed to provide reasonable assurance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Parallel Ltd completes IT audit for African Banking Corporation
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-29 March 2004-Parallel Ltd completes IT audit for African Banking CorporationC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com IT services management company Parallel Ltd has completed its three month network performance audit for the African Banking Corporation ABC. The UK-based company was called in after ABC suffered major performance problems with...
- Research articles 2004-03-29
- Business Process Audit
- The company management teams generally talk about becoming more process-centric and using processes to guide their management, measurement and investment decisions. One tool that has helped many organizations is the business process audit. In essence, an audit provides an objective evaluation of how a company's business process change practices compare...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Major African bank selects Parallel for vital IT audit.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 March 2004-Parallel: Major African bank selects Parallel for vital IT auditC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03292004 Parallel Ltd, the UK-based IT service management company, has completed a three-month network performance audit for the African Banking Corporation ABC. ...
- Research articles 2004-03-29
- Back from the dead: Med School audit revived
- BISMARCK - A performance audit of UND's School of Medicine and Health Sciences is back on the table after a House-Senate panel ceded the point in an effort to gain support of the higher education budget.Conference committee members thought they'd struck a deal in the higher education budget but...
- Research articles 2005-04-23
- SBA Changes Show Improving Agency Performance and Employee Morale, GAO Says
- WASHINGTON -- According to a GAO report issued last week, SBA has substantially improved the agency's overall performance and improved employee morale. "Over the past six years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has sought to transform the agency and improve its operations," the GAO said in a performance audit....
- Research articles 2008-10-29
- J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Fewer Than One-Third of Audit Committees Are Implementing Key Practices That Lead to Higher Performance Ratings of the Audit Process
- WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- As audit committees struggle implementing the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, fewer than one-third implement a majority of practices that lead to higher ratings of the financial audit process, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Audit Committee Best Practices ReportSM released today. The report is...
- Research articles 2004-11-30
- Provision of Non-Audit Services by Accounting Firms after the Enron Bankruptcy in the United States, The
- This study aims to examine the current non-audit services after Enron, went bankrupt when massive accounting fraud was uncovered. We investigated 767 accounting firms in Taiwan and found that currently tax advisory service is the most popular the non-audit service provided by accounting firms. With a higher certified public accountant...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Why a Search Audit is Essential
- Hordes of firms are taking their search marketing strategy in-house. It's a recent phenomenon; in the past, freelancers and consultants, were the go-to point-people. In order to make that critical choice, and other decisions, about your future web marketing strategy you should perform a site audit. What does an audit...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- BAE SYSTEMS ASKED TO oIMPROVE ITS PERFORMANCE" BY UK'S NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE.
- UK defence group BAE Systems has been asked to oimprove its performance" by the UKs National Audit Office NAO, which blames the company for a large percentage of a Ministry of Defence MoD overspend, according to a report published on January UK defence group BAE Systems...
- Research articles 2004-01-29
- Reports in print
- The Department of the Auditor General of Pakistan has published its latest edition of the journal PEPFORMIT, which is devoted to the advancement of financial and performance audit in the public sector. The current edition covers such topics as auditing educational institutions, internal control, and public sector nonfinancial performance reporting....
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- The Effect of Audit Qualifications on Investor Assessments of Financial Performance When Management Reports Conservatively in Periods of Strong Financial Performance
- This paper discusses a study that was in which a field experiment was conducted using 45 experienced investors to examine how audit accounting-choice qualifications on income-decreasing accounting changes in years of strong financial performance affect investor assessments of strategic reporting, current financial performance, and future financial performance. We find that...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- A Systematic Approach for Knowledge Audit Analysis: Integration of Knowledge Inventory, Mapping and Knowledge Flow Analysis
- Knowledge audit lays a concrete foundation for any knowledge management programs. The central topic of this paper is to integrate various knowledge audit related techniques into pre-audit preparation, in-audit process and post-audit analysis in a systematic manner. Culture assessment, in the form of surveys and radar charts, along with orientation...
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Conducting an Information Audit
- As the pace of technological change accelerates, organizations have to make decisions ever more rapidly, which means they need systems in place to support that decision-making process. Accurate information is the key to effective decision-making. However, it is easy to become sidetracked by junk e-mails and information overload. An information...
- Articles 2007-11-16
- Audit Committees Providing Oversight in Challenging Times
- The collapse of Enron has created a crisis of confidence in our country's financial reporting system. The media and political frenzy in the aftermath of Enron's failure has sparked debate regarding a wide range of possible solutions—many of them are aimed at the auditing profession and relationships between auditors and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Management of the Audit Function
- "An effective audit function should provide all levels of management an independent appraisal of their operations and assist them in achieving maximum efficiency while achieving overall organizational goals However, before the manager of the organization's audit function can begin to promote the audit department's positive contributions to the...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Audit Committee Responsibilities In The Post-Enron Era
- In the wake of Enron's collapse, well-publicized accounting problems at Waste Management,Global Crossing and other companies and a resulting loss of billions of dollars of shareholder value, financial reporting and the Audit Committee are in the spotlight like never before. Over the past several months, President Bush, Congress, the Securities...
- White papers 2002-05-13
- Internal Audit Transformation at International Wireless Telecommunication Corporation
- The Internal Audit Transformation and Co-Sourcing Project consisted of redesigning the approach, methodologies, tools and outcomes of the company's Internal Audit function to move the function towards best-in-class performance. The initial project resulted in several internal audit co-sourcing projects involving Protiviti's Fraud Investigations, Supply Chain Management, Technology Risk Solutions and...
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- Audit Decision Making
- There is a fine line that an auditor must walk when documenting the results of a management systems audit. Determining the differences between a major non-conformance, minor non-conformance, and or observation can be difficult. This paper clarifies these audit decision making difficulties. Third party quality management system audits are meant...
- White papers 2008-04-20
- Air Force Audit Agency Fiscal Year 2005 Awards
- Air Force Audit Agency Fiscal Year 2005 Area Audit Office Superior Performance Excellence Award --Financial Systems Audits Directorate AFAA/FSC--Financial Support and Special Projects Division AFAA/FSS--Information Security and Communications Division --Acquisition and Logistics Audit Directorate AFAA/QLC--Competitive Sourcing Division --Support and Personnel Audits Directorate AFAA/SPP--Personnel and Training Division ...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
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