Audit Firm
An organization that performs an audit, or review, of financial statements for a company or other legal entity to provide an independent opinion of the quality and accuracy of these financial statements, a...More
process referred to as an external audit. The largest of the companies performing this function are often collectively referred to as the “big four” and include Deloitte and Touche, Ernst and Young (E&Y), PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and KPMG.
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Lavastorm Analytics (Boston, MA, Lavastorm Analytics)
By: Toffer Winslow, General Manager of Lavastorm Analytics And then there were four… To paraphrase Twain, reports of the death of the traditional financial audit are greatly exaggerated. But few would dispute that market for traditional financial audit...
Regis Quirin (Chief Financial Officer Consultant, CMD Capital Formation LLC)
On May 1, 2012, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced changes to its website (www.pcaobus.org) where site visitors can now review certain public information provided by audit firms, which includes registration, annual and special reporting,...
Samuel Dergel (Director - Executive Search, Stanton Chase International)
Dear Samuel, I am a CFO of an owner-managed company. In recent years, our CPA firm has not been servicing us properly. They are always pushing our deadlines to the limit, even when all the information they have requested has been delivered in a timely fashion to them...
charles lambert (CFO, Novella Clinical)
We are a $100m revenue private company in professional services (revenues contract/project based, no inventory, limited supply chain). I am interested in whether anyone has a benchmark % of revenue range for the audit fee for this kind of company?
Anonymous (Head of Accounting)
Which Regional Auditing firms around San Francisco Bay Area would you recommend for government contracting/DCAA related work?
Stan Fronterio (Organizational Consultant , Self Employed )
I am working with a few mid-size and larger organizations -200-1,000 employees, and notice they constantly run into the operational challenges of losing documents or spending time tracking down documents. Is there a system that includes automation of the document...
Amit Mamgain (Consultant, Not working)
As a finance deptt manager do I have to legally enter into a non-disclosure agreement with external auditors every year before the audit work is started?
Ernie Humphrey (Vice President, Proformative)
In an audit relationship a two-way street of learning can make the audit process much less painful for both parties. Conversations among practitioners often consist of complaining about how auditors are taking up more and more of their time. ...
Katherine Motlagh (Vp Finance)
Hi, looking for some input from those of you who has gone through the change of auditors. Would be interested in feedback on reasons to change, RFI process, timing, selection criteria. thanks, Katherine
