Many busy audit committee members are feeling strained as they try to perform effective oversight of the risk process, according to a global survey by KPMG. More than 1,500 audit committee members ...

Richard Ciccarone is the co-author, with UIC's Deborah Carroll, of a new report on municipal audit timeliness. The time it took municipal bond issuers to produce audited financial statements decreased ...

The median audit time for all municipal bond sectors rose nearly 10.5% from 2011 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of Illinois-Chicago and Merritt Research Services. Processing ...

Auditing methodology refers to the ways in which audits are carried out in businesses. Of course, this depends largely the type of audit, since businesses use audits to focus on specific processes and ...

Recently, a friend of mine told me that her company hired an efficiency consultant to help optimize everyone's workflow. The consultant performed detailed interviews with key performers throughout the ...