The concepts of quality assurance and audits are two distinct ideas that serve the same purpose: improving quality, consistency and reliability in operations. Quality assurance is more of an abstract ...

How often and how much does your firm think about quality? Every auditor is, by nature, committed to quality. Every firm has final quality control steps built into its production process. However, ...

A quality audit is a review of the performance of one area of a business and an analysis of why the results occurred. Even small businesses can benefit from simple quality audits, which can help spot ...

High-quality audits are essential to capital market operations. These audits are planned and executed by highly skilled, independent auditors in consultation with independent audit committees. In turn ...

When performed correctly, audits of employee benefit plan financial statements can be extremely rewarding for a firm and its auditors. It takes specialized expertise to excel in employee benefit plan ...

Today’s audit profession is driving exciting and unprecedented changes that are fundamentally evolving the role of the auditor and how audits are performed. Breakthrough innovations in areas such as ...

Testing payroll during an audit can be a tedious manual process, the kind of grunt work that has long been viewed as the “dues” paid by young auditors before they advance in their careers. Recently, ...

Through QUANUM, the IAEA supports the implementation of effective quality systems while integrating all aspects of quality management into modern nuclear medicine services in Member States. The QUANUM ...

QUAADRIL was set up to advise on standards and processes used for comprehensive clinical audits of diagnostic radiology services. To improve quality of such services, it focuses on clinical management ...

A recent report from the Department of Labor s Employee Benefit Security Administration should serve as a wake-up call for plan sponsors to make the audit process and auditor selection a high priority ...