Auditing

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The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), which oversees FASB and GASB, has issued its 2013 Annual Report, detailing the organization's activities and key issues during the past year.

The Institute of Internal Auditors is encouraging accounting professionals, organizations and firms around the world to take part in promoting International Internal Audit Awareness month.

The Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) today released the CAQ Approach to Audit Quality Indicators, which represents a two-year effort with its member firms to develop perspectives regarding which indicators may be most relevant and how and to whom they should be communicated. The paper sets forth in detail the CAQ approach to communicate a set of potential Audit Quality Indicators (AQIs), which will be pilot tested by CAQ member firms with select audit committees.

The ProSystem fx Knowledge Coach audit solution has been granted a U.S. patent for its knowledge-based system, rule-based content, contextual guidance and functionality, Wolters Kluwer CCH has announced.

XBRL US has announced the publication of its new online US GAAP Pension Analyzer. The tool is available for free to public company reporting managers that runs a set of rules against the pension disclosure within an XBRL-formatted financial statement. XBRL US is the nonprofit consortium for XBRL reporting in the US.

The new version of ACL Direct Link for SAP ERP and SAP CRM, an SAP-certified data extraction add-on for ACL Analytics (AN) and ACL Analytics Exchange (AX) helps professionals who are struggling to gain access to transactional SAP data necessary to test controls and ensure regulatory compliance under Sarbanes-Oxley and other financial requirements.