The Public Accounting Oversight Board issued a concept release last month proposing a significant overhaul to the quality control rules. The proposed changes could have the potential for expanding ...

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has issued a set of three revised standards aimed at improving quality management for auditors across the globe. The new standards aim to ...

Audit firms’ quality controls will be the subject of PCAOB discussion in 2014 that could lead to a new auditing standard, board Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards Martin Baumann said ...

Quality auditing is the examination of an organization's quality control systems. The independent auditor examines how well a company ensures the quality of its products and services, and makes a ...

IN BRIEF Public company auditing is a complex and challenging area of accounting practice. The following revisits the authors ...

Quality inspectors at Boeing, angry at management’s plan to streamline and automate some quality-control processes with fewer inspectors overseeing the work of mechanics, point to a recent ...