An effective audit starts with a solid audit plan. While the overall audit strategy and plan can vary between clients, an auditor will usually establish risk assessment procedures and a how-to response for the risk of material misstatement. The challenge is that sometimes, even the most thorough and comprehensive audit plans can still have gaps.
The cornerstone of well-planned and high-quality audit engagements is a robust risk assessment process. Such a process is critical to identifying risks of material misstatement and their relative significance by providing a fulsome understanding of the entity subject to audit and the environment in which it operates. The nature and extent of these audit risk
In today’s world of COVID-19, accounting firms can be pressed by clients for short-term basic deliverables. There are still expectations for getting audits completed as pragmatically as possible per the standards along with the new norm of engaging clients virtually and securely. I believe this challenge presents an opportunity for firms to re-position themselves for
In these challenging times, virtually all organizations are faced with disruptions to the status quo. Depending on the industry and profile of one organization to the next, these disruptions can range from creating slight instability in day-to-day activities to having a catastrophic impact on the basic viability and sustainability of operations. Transparent and accurate financial
In the lead up to their panel presentation at Influence 2020, we connected with Myron Fisher, CPA, CGMA from Baldwin CPAs, PLLC (Baldwin) to talk about their approach to technology and audit. Baldwin is experienced and qualified to provide accounting services to a wide variety of businesses and industries. The firm has concentrations in the industries of construction
The public’s trust of governmental budgeting, fiscal management, and reporting is at an all-time low, especially in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, where only four out of ten people in OECD countries expressed confidence in their government. Cases of fraud, bid-rigging, and pay-to-play are never far from the headlines, and have continued to
As someone who has worked in big-firm transformational change for quite a while, I’ve often reflected on the perils of success and its ability to stand in the way of innovation and agility. We work really hard in transformation teams to articulate URGENCY, and NECESSITY, and ABSOLUTE DIRE NEED to transform. But no matter how
It should come as no surprise that the accounting software market is exploding. With increasing demands on chartered accountants to be smarter, faster, and more data-driven than their peers, we’re seeing massive growth in available tools, and the leading-edge technologies behind them. This new landscape means that we’re in an age of faster time-to-market, constant
In times of great uncertainty, we all look for a crystal ball. Also known as an orbuculum or crystal sphere, legend has it that a crystal ball is a fortune-telling object. But the use of crystal balls to predict the future is pseudoscience and there’s no evidence that they can validly predict the future. Time
COVID-19 — the coronavirus — has businesses around the world facing an unprecedented situation. First and foremost, we sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are safe and secure. Our current, shared situation certainly gives us pause and we recognize the importance of pulling through this together. This new working environment most likely means
Klaus Schwab, the Founder and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, shares in his book, “The Fourth Industrial Revolution,” that artificial intelligence (AI) will perform 30% of corporate audits by 2025. While any estimate of change is just that, an estimate, the pace of change is governed by the benefits that result from the application
You’re in the minority if you haven’t heard of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet the accounting profession has a long way to go in terms of adoption. AI is a popular conversation piece for industry bodies such as the AICPA, CPA Australia, ICAEW, and PCAOB, and more firms are deploying the technology today than ever before. But most firm leaders still
