When performing annual retirement plan financial audits, plan sponsors and their auditors should look for potential “red flags” for regulators. James E. Merklin, partner in charge of Assurance ...

Investors, business owners, management and company employees rely on valid accounting methods for the stability of investments and an accurate assessment of the overall company health. All companies, ...

Whether your firm is small or one of the largest organizations in the country, it pays to develop and maintain a strategic audit plan, according to Lorin Venable, CPA, CGMA. As assistant inspector ...

An audit is the highest level of assurance a CPA firm can provide that the financial statements follow the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), or some other reasonable basis of accounting ...

Reporting and performance requirements for practitioners auditing employee benefit plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) will change under a new standard that ...

One of internal audit's values is to tell management when the controls to manage risks and assure opportunities aren't working. Internal audit should have a plan for the work it will do, and by now we ...

If you haven’t done a dependent eligibility audit of your health insurance plan recently, you may be paying for benefits for people who don’t belong on the plan. “A dependent eligibility audit ...

Estate planning is the process of transferring the management of your assets if and when you are unable to manage them yourself due to disability or death. Whether you have $100 or $100 Million you ...

Cuyahoga County's internal watchdogs say they are stretched too thin to keep inspecting every corner of county government on ...