The cost factor in a cost-benefit analysis can link to your budget or to process efficiency. The financial cost of implementing the most effective internal controls is sometimes too much for a ...

In its most recent guidance for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 requirements for smaller entities, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has provided ...

Are you an auditor engaged to audit an entity that is less complex? If so, you may wonder why you spend time on the audit evaluating internal control. This may seem like an exercise that is much more ...

Internal control is relevant to everyone in the workplace. It represents our moral responsibility to understand and comply with University policies and procedures, as well as to hold ourselves and one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Jenkins Professor of Accounting at NC State University. Audit partners who issue adverse internal control opinions are ...

The mission of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry is to advance knowledge and skills, while promoting the leadership necessary for the stewardship of both the natural and designed ...