An email sent to clients last week by Elliott Group CPAs in Charlotte, N.C., committed the firm to a new level of remote work on audits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The firm, which ...

Remote audits should not replace physical visits but can be used as part of a hybrid approach, said presenters at the Vienna Food Safety Forum. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization ...

Regular audits are a standard business necessity for most companies. Even when not required by regulation, an independent audit offers valuable business insights along with validation of the company’s ...

Before the pandemic, the pharma industry and its regulators would not have entertained the concept of remote audits to verify that the manufacturing and distribution standards of supply-chain partners ...

The COVID 19 pandemic dramatically altered the day-to-day existence of most companies. Though businesses may have had remote-work contingency plans in place, few could have expected the need to ...

Accounting professionals have debated how, or if, to conduct audit work from remote locations for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic quickly accelerated the practice when travel and in-office work ...

During the pandemic, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service largely replaced its in-country visitation teams with so-called remote verification audits. FSIS audits foreign countries that export ...