Audit committees are providing company investors with more information about their oversight of auditing firms, according to a new report. Processing Content The annual Audit Committee Transparency ...

As the eyes and ears of the board, the audit committee plays a pivotal role in helping to stop or reverse the rise in reported fraud incidents worldwide. Thirty-six percent of more than 6,000 ...

SARBANES-OXLEY HAS CHANGED the relationships CPAs have with the entities that employ them. Before, an audit committee was essentially an extension of a company’s board of directors, often ...

Audit committees that include a former partner from the firm that audits their company can still retain their independence and have high-quality audits, according to a new study. The researchers ...

Kim Ho-cheol, the new head of the Board of Audit and Inspection, said in his inauguration speech on the 2nd, “Starting with ...

In the summer of 2002, Congress reacted to the slew of corporate and accounting scandals of the time — the most notable being Enron — with a new law that aimed to establish transparency and ...

The audit committee's role is to oversee the financial workings of business and to act as a mediator between a company's management and its external auditors. The audit committee reviews financial ...

The past few years have emphasized fundamental organizational changes brought on by the pandemic. Companies are being called to embrace the impacts of digital transformation, monitor rises in cyber ...