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While significant progress has been made in both technology and processes to establish best practices in audit management, a common pitfall remains for many organizations: disparate silos of ...

In the ongoing debate over which came first, government opacity or citizen apathy, there are two basic schools of thought: One side argues that citizens have checked out because they've been so ...

Small business owners sometimes rely on performance audits to ascertain the effectiveness of their companies. To identify unprofitable practices, the performance audit might analyze the company as a ...

There hasn’t been a nefarious conspiracy to undermine performance auditing efforts in cities and states over the last several years, at least not that we know of. But auditing services, like other ...

What is audit quality? This is not meant as a philosophical question, but rather as one that can be answered through ...

Employers conduct performance audits or evaluations to gauge whether employees are performing according to company standards. This process includes periodic assessment of work ethics, procedures and ...

In an encouraging development, State Auditor Pat McCarthy is conducting a performance audit of Sound Transit. Performance audits are done to ensure that tax dollars are spent as cost-effectively as ...