When you hear the term audit, you may immediately think of a team of IRS officers rummaging through your files looking for discrepancies and errors in your business's tax returns. However, financial ...

The authors of “ Eight Habits of Highly Effective Audit Committees” (Sept. 07, page 46) have identified relevant recommendations. However, these recommendations are for an audit committee that is a ...

Audits are an important part of a compliance program and help monitor compliance obligations, identify non-compliance, and quantify overpayments. But, planning the audit is often just as important as ...

This concentration equips students with skills and tools required to examine and evaluate an organization's information technology infrastructure, policies and operations. It focuses on the process of ...

This paper employs unique tax administrative data and operational audit information from a sample of approximately 7,500 self-employed U.S. taxpayers to investigate the effects of operational tax ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Concept image for filing federal income taxes online and being ...

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) audits 1% to 2% of small business income tax returns annually for one of two reasons: (1) something about the return (or information reported on the return) ...