By Jaclyn Jaeger2020-08-13T17:48:00
The more internal audit plays a key role in the strategic management of fraud, the more effective and robust organizations’ fraud risk management processes seem to be, according to the results of a recent Kroll/IIA survey.
2020-09-15T20:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The chairman and chief executive of Big Four auditing firm EY says auditors should do more to uncover fraud while conducting external audits, a topic the industry has historically been reluctant to tackle.
2020-08-21T17:56:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
A new global business ethics survey released by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative seeks to explain what factors contribute to employee pressure to compromise ethical policies or regulations and how to reduce that pressure.
2020-07-21T13:42:00Z By Martin Woods
When it comes to ferreting out and thwarting fraud, one must think like the fraudster, advises financial crime expert Martin Woods, who offers tips on using data to make your firm a hostile environment for bad actors.
2025-10-15T19:16:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Auditors are supposed to keep businesses honest, but how much regulation is the optimum for the auditors – and how onerous and punitive should the enforcement regime be? A new consultation by the U.K. regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, opened on Oct. 1 and has put the vexed question of ...
2025-10-07T20:32:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced data analytics, can improve audit quality in significant ways. As the regulatory overseer of public-company audits, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has a critical role to play by ensuring that its audit standards evolve as the audit profession evolves.
2025-07-21T14:13:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Continuing a Trump administration practice of firing independent regulators, the head of the Public Accounting Oversight Board has been sent packing.
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