10. Bring in lunch. That should help control the costs of those working sessions with auditors—assuming you skip the steak.
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Donald Sparks
May 27, 2011 8:38 AM ET
Technology Counts (no longer optional)
Auditing staff should use professional tools for working papers, data analysis, risk assessment, continuous auditing … more
Mark Speck
May 8, 2008 5:13 PM ET
useful methods
I find these methods useful. Especially the recommendations to reduce legal entities and to have known repeatitive … more
Richard Allan Co
Feb 6, 2008 12:20 AM ET
vouch vouch vouch!
Excellent article! In my experience though, external auditors rarely rely on internal auditors' work, hardly use … more
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