A quality audit examines your company's quality management system. A quality system auditor closely guards the checklist he uses and can adapt the list to ensure it applies to your business. If you ...

An important aspect of a pharmaceutical company is a robust quality management system (QMS) because it shows the company’s commitment to quality. This idea was introduced by the International ...

Companies use internal and external controls in their operations in different ways. Financial controls refer to policies employees must follow to avoid mistakes, meet legal compliance requirements and ...

The PCAOB is delaying by one year the effective date of its risk-based quality control system for public company accounting. “Today’s decision by the board to postpone the effective date takes into ...

A quality management system (QMS) is essential to a safe and efficiently run diagnostic radiology department, providing quality clinical images while maintaining patient and staff radiation doses as ...

Occasionally when I’m with a large group I ask two questions. The first, “Who had a performance review last year?” will result in most hands going up. I follow up by asking, “Who had a really positive ...

The clock is ticking. Accounting firms that perform engagements under the Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs), Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs) or Statements on ...