Monday, November 21, 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Auditors can be scammed too

An interesting article about how the audit confirmation process could be purposely subverted.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2011/11/08/scamming-the-auditors-is-as-simple-as-cut-and-paste/

One example of a secure tool is http://clientsolutions.cpa2biz.com/confirmation/index.html

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Risks of SaaS assessing and managing the risk

Risks of cloud software are detailed in this Grant Thornton publication http://www.grantthornton.com/portal/site/gtcom/menuitem.91c078ed5c0ef4ca80cd8710033841ca/?vgnextoid=288fa42c5c13f210VgnVCM1000003a8314acRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

SOX 404 audits and Risk assessment

The point about this article is that there is more than just looking back  that is important in company audits   http://accounting.smartpros.com/x72966.xml