As companies contend with the economic impact of the global pandemic and the related risks, management should be prepared for heightened auditor scrutiny.
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board released guidance for auditors to consider when issuing audit reports amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
But relatively few audit execs are actually performing reviews of critical risk areas such as health and safety.
The auditing profession is responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic by adjusting how it conducts audits, and that’s evident in the Center for Audit Quality, whose CEO, Julie Bell Lindsay, took over the leadership job when the priorities for the profession and the CAQ looked far different.
SOX professionals are thinking about how to revise their risk management playbook for the year in response to the pandemic.
In the shadow of the coronavirus, the AICPA and other groups are working on ways to help the environment.
As oil prices collapsed in the fallout from the coronavirus, Singapore-based Hin Leong's foundations crumbled.
The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has decided to defer the effective dates of seven of its recently issued Statements on Auditing Standards because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Institute of Internal Auditors has stopped most of its in-person activities, including training, during the COVID-19 pandemic and will instead do online testing on a temporary basis for its certification exams.
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board released its 2020-2023 strategy and 2020-2021 work plan, while acknowledging that the COVID-19 pandemic could throw those plans out of whack.