While management teams often concentrate on bankers, investor presentations and legal filings, one area can derail things ...

An audit of Daytona's city government travel expenses found weak internal controls, excessive costs and insufficient ...

In 2005 about 3,700 large-cap ($75 million or more) companies underwent the first wave of Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 audits. Here, a firm experienced with Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 audits for ...

Financial executives feel that the requirements for documenting their organization’s internal controls are getting to be too much and many of them are behind the curve when it comes to applying ...

In its most recent guidance for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 requirements for smaller entities, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has provided ...

As part of a financial statement audit, auditors are required to obtain an understanding of a company's internal control system. Internal control is an interconnected web of policies, procedures, ...

Strong internal controls are critical for helping to reduce the risk a business will fall victim to workplace fraud, waste and abuse. Internal control weaknesses expose a business to any number of ...

Audit report released Monday by the state said the St. John the Baptist Parish 40th Judicial district court lacks internal controls and documentation on purchases and the budget for 2012 was not ...

Effective compliance programs hinge on good training and proper metrics to see how your training influences employee behavior. That was the subject of Compliance Week’s latest executive roundtable, ...

Whenever foreign investors want to figure out whether internal control exists and is sufficient in their Chinese subsidiaries, an internal control review (ICR) might be the best and very first step to ...

The Secretary-General has signed the first Statement on Internal Control for all operations of the Secretariat for 2020, marking an important milestone towards achieving greater accountability for ...

A performance audit of the Office of the Minnesota Governor and Lieutenant Governor found multiple instances of noncompliance ...