What You Tell the Audit Committee About Auditors
Image: You might have forgotten, but once upon a time a company’s audit committee was primarily responsible for—get this—the annual audit. Compliance Week recently surveyed compliance and audit executives to ask: What information do you bring to the audit committee when reviewing the performance of your audit firm? Inside, Editor ...
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