James Tarala is a principal consultant with Enclave Security. He is a regular speaker and senior instructor with the SANS Institute as well as a courseware author and editor for many SANS auditing and ...

Auditing is, at best, a cumbersome and time-consuming engagement. Whether it’s an audit of internal controls, or one to produce audited financial statements, there’s always a fairly complex and time- ...

Audit AI Excel reports before your manager spots the mistakes. Use pivot tables and Power Query to rebuild net sales and ...

From the August 2021 Issue. Pundits in the profession continue to promote the thinking that audit and tax compliance are gone and that your firm needs to pick a new service line to survive. But, did ...

Audits are not the realm of only the Big 4 and other very large practices. Many small and mid-sized firms also offer A&A services to their clients. But audits can certainly be complex and labor ...

Audit requires a range of functionality, from client engagement to data sampling, analysis and visualization, to reporting, creating workpapers and more. This year, Accounting Today talked to a small ...

How can you confirm your systems are configured appropriately and maintain that configuration over time? In our tests, Preventsys Network Audit and Policy Assurance 1.5 proved to be a flexible, ...

A cloud audit is an assessment of a cloud computing environment and its services, based on a specific set of controls and best practices. The audit is typically conducted by an independent third-party ...

Consulting firm PwC is offering a new cryptocurrency auditing feature as a part of its Halo data auditing suite. The new tool allow users to take a closer look at the cryptocurrency transactions they ...