The evolving, risk-based approach to audit firm quality management is consistent with a trend that has become well established in the accounting profession. Over the past 15 years or so, leaders of ...

The AICPA Auditing Standards Board has approved new quality management standards designed to improve a firm’s risk assessment and audit quality. The ASB voted Thursday to approve three standards, and ...

Ensuring high-quality standards in any organization is an essential ingredient that must be rooted within a company’s Quality Management Program (QMP) – a program that creates a framework to ensure ...

A report found deficiencies in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) quality management program for its supervision activities. The quality management program at the division of ...

The Clinical Quality Management Program, commonly referred to as QM, continuously and objectively assesses key aspects of individual and institutional performance with the intent of improving health ...

Companies obtain certification under the ISO 9000 standards to demonstrate that their quality management program complies with the ISO 9001 standard. The now-obsolete ISO 9002 standard applied to ...

In part one of this series we discussed how most organizations fall midway on the quality management continuum for their organizational structure, competence assurance and procedural adherence. Though ...

The role of construction safety professionals has significantly expanded over the past decade. The industry employs thousands of safety professionals, most of whom work for contractors (general or ...

The MSN in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare prepares you to lead organizational efforts that improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and ...

1. The Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) was developed to address the Executive Board's interest in data quality as expressed during the December 1997 discussion of the Progress Report on the ...

The MS in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare prepares you to lead organizational efforts that improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage ...