The report, Audit & Assurance Alert — Blockchain Technology and Its Potential Impact on the Audit and Assurance Profession, describes how blockchain technology could potentially affect the financial ...

This expanded use has prompted audit and assurance practices, as they help de-risk sustainability data by enhancing data credibility and reducing the risks of errors, omissions, and misstatements.

“So there is potentially an appetite for auditors to become involved in such a way that we can provide assurance that those numbers that are being relied upon by the markets and are moving stock ...

Ernst & Young plans to invest $1 billion in next-generation assurance technology for its audit teams around the world to leverage as part of an overall $2.5 billion four-year commitment. EY had ...

Engaging a third party for an assurance or audit review provides an external validation of management's assertions. The assertion is reviewed in light of data accuracy, data handling, roles and ...

BDO USA LLP is taking steps to improve its audits, hiring a former official from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to join its audit leadership team, restructuring its assurance practice ...

Pelletier will lead a panel discussion focused on "The Journey to Integrated Assurance: Going Beyond Connected Risks". The panel will discuss the evolution of internal audit beyond traditional ...

Senior Financial Management Specialist Frederick Yankey shared some challenges and opportunities in the field of auditing quality assurance. He said that the tertiary institutions have still not ...