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Best practices for determining audit quality
Various initiatives on producing audit quality indicators give audit committees some questions to ask or data points to consider in assessing their audits and their auditors.
Quality reports from major audit firms
In recent years, major audit firms have begun producing voluntary quality reports. We offer a sampling of findings from six of the biggest firms to accompany our auditing special report.
Transparency a game-changer for auditor evaluations
Under rising pressure to be more transparent about how they oversee auditors, proactive audit committees are raising their games when it comes to evaluating all aspects of their audit.
Why companies replace their external auditors
Analyzing public company regulatory filings, we explore the factors behind why companies change external auditors.
- Partner Content | Financial Services
Preparing for new credit loss rules
Banks and other financial institutions have a lot of work ahead of them as they prepare to adopt the new standard on reflecting credit losses in financial instruments (the so-called CECL standard).
Marianne Ibrahim on conducting a third party audit
Marianne Ibrahim, director of global compliance at Baker Hughes, offers several best practices for the auditing of third parties.
U.S. regulators ponder Brexit plans, disclosure demands
The planned—but still chaotic—divorce of the United Kingdom from the European Union could trigger disclosure demands for U.S. companies. The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has some advice.
Insider threats often are hardest to detect
In his latest editorial, Compliance Week Editor in Chief Dave Lefort applies what he learned at CW West to recent insider scandals and provides several compliance-related takeaways.
Bipartisan effort would double SEC statute of limitations for fraud
Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) have introduced the Securities Fraud Enforcement and Investor Compensation Act—the bipartisan legislation that would extend the window of time the SEC can pursue post-fraud claims for investors from five years to 10.