Companies can use financial audit software to determine whether there are significant misstatements in their financial accounts. An audit is a legal obligation for businesses to stay out of fraud.

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- ...

An assisted audit refers to CAATs, or computer-assisted audit tools and techniques, that use software and programs dedicated to the auditing process to help out auditors, especially with large ...

The audit community’s adoption of electronic working papers to encourage collaboration has had an unintended consequence of creating dark data. That is, data trapped within these new documents, making ...

“There are two types of companies: those that have been audited [for software violations] and those that will be.” So says Robert J. Scott, the managing partner of legal and technology services firm ...

The fact that the Big Four audit firms are being used both for statutory and software licence audits should raise alarm bells in IT departments. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, the ...

Hg has acquired a stake in CaseWare International, a Toronto-based developer of audit software solutions for accountants, corporations and governments. No financial terms were disclosed. Hg’s ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. A software audit is a daunting situation for any organization – one that creates demands and stress on IT staff and ...