A semi-annual or annual internal audit allows you to gauge the effectiveness of your business's internal control system. Unlike an external audit, which focuses on determining whether financial ...

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The IRS trains its agents on specific audit techniques for different industries and issues. Audit Techniques Guides (ATGs) focus on developing specific guidance for examiners in a particular market ...

“Activities not Engaged in for Profit” or, in layman’s terms, hobbies, tend to be a red flag at the IRS. Many taxpayers have hobbies that earn a bit of income and the IRS states that in such cases, ...

Most companies are subject to audit, be these quality or financial. Audits, as defined in the internal standards for quality audits, ISO 19011:2018—Guidelines for auditing management systems, are a ...

Regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of the IT landscape these days, and the ability to audit database activities showing who did what to which data when is a specific requirement of many ...

More companies are using "continuous auditing" techniques, which are designed to use technology to accelerate the internal audit cycle and improve risk and control assurance, according to a new study ...

The Internal Revenue Service has recently updated its Entertainment Audit Technique Guide to help tax professionals when reporting various items related to the entertainment industry. Processing ...