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Tag: Auditing
The PCAOB Could Look Very Different, Very Soon
Get a good look, people. Anyone interested in becoming a PCAOB member? It sounds like […]
The Number of Female Audit Partners Is Terrible
A new study shows that women are drastically underrepresented as audit firm partners, averaging only […]
NYSE President Not Sure About All This Auditing
Over at the House Committee on Financial Services, some opposition to Sarbanes-Oxley has come up […]
Deloitte’s Brazil Firm Covered Up a Couple of Bad Audits
The big news in the international audit firm world today is an announcement by the […]
PCAOB Unsure About Motives Behind Audit Firms’ Fancy New Thingamajigs
The Big 4 has been attempting to bring sexy back to auditing for awhile now, […]
“Rise of the Robots” – And They’ll Audit Better, Smarter, Cheaper
“The ‘smarter’ machines get, the more and more jobs they’ll replace. Including mine. And yours.” […]
The Future Audit Team: Smaller, Nerdier, Expensiver
As auditing changes, naturally, so will the auditors. Technology drives a lot of this change […]
Tighten Up Privileged Access Now, or Hate Yourself Later
The 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (aka: “DBIR”) is out and it isn’t pretty. […]
Automation to Artificial Intelligence: New Frontiers for Auditors
News flash: Artificial intelligence (AI) and other cognitive technologies are eliminating jobs left and right. […]
Coming Soon-ish: Greener Auditing
Well, maybe. Eventually. Some time in the future. Over at the Harvard Business Review, there's […]
Auditing’s Future: A Conversation With PwC’s Assurance Transformation Leader Bill Brennan
Auditing is a big deal in the accounting world, especially at Big 4 firms. While […]