In this, the first in a two-part series, we walk through the initial steps businesses need to take to mobilize their data: a data audit and data consolidation. It has been argued that “data is the ...

Businesses need comprehensive data strategies to stay ahead, but many organizations have not done enough to create a strategy that can scale to solve current use cases while ensuring they can adapt ...

When Ed Wilkins, CPA, talks to audit committees about adding data analytics to the audit process, he explains to them that it usually takes three years for investment in a complex audit analytic to ...

During a market data audit, an exchange or data vendor—or a third party acting on their behalf—conducts an in-depth assessment of the data a firm uses from them. The goal is to ensure the end-user is ...

The auditing profession was already in the midst of transformation, thanks to technological advances and other factors. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic came along and accelerated those changes, further ...

Electronic Data Processing (EDP) refers to the input, processing and output of information. EDP is often called Information Services or Systems (IS) or Management Information Services (MIS), according ...

Internal Audit identifies all auditable activities and relevant risk factors, and assesses their significance through an annual risk assessment, utilizing the Committee of Sponsoring Organization's ...

Months after announcing a new program to validate self-reported nursing home quality data, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun notifying providers of their selection.