An audit engagement is a critical exercise for stakeholders such as employees, owners, investors and lenders. For the sake of efficiency, auditors must focus on standard audit tasks; they can't focus ...

Conducting regular audits can help a small business identify problems and highlight strengths within the business. Employing the use of an audit checklist will not only help a small business review ...

My updated Word file of checklists is now available. There are 190 tax season, practice management and personal tips checklists on 328 pages in a usable searchable Word format. I added 12 checklists ...

When tax season rolls around, neglected accounting tasks can haunt small business owners. It’s a pain to categorize income and expense transactions from memory or track discrepancies among hundreds of ...

NEW YORK -- HealthSouth Corp. paid more to accountants Ernst & Young to inspect its bathrooms and parking lots than it did to audit its financial statements from 2000 to 2002, the company said ...