Internal controls are the policies you put in place to keep your company's financial reporting accurate. If you sell shares to the public, internal controls have been mandatory for decades. The ...

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 ...

Internal control as defined by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) is a process, affected by an entity's board of directors (trustees), management, and other ...

With all of the media coverage on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, small-business owners might think that implementing an internal control is more expensive and troublesome than it is worth. While a small ...

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 ...

Many assays have integrated, built-in, or internal controls to demonstrate their operability at specific procedural steps. What role do these built-in controls play in quality control to assure ...

Of all the tools rushed to market to help companies comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) requirements, the potential of those developed by the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors themselves is ...

In this article,, Chief Financial Officer at cloud-based, e-invoicing and P2P automation solution provider, Yooz, explores the connection ...

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 ...

Internal controls play an integral role in a company’s success, but many young accounting and finance professionals enter their careers without a clear understanding of their importance. I recently ...