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Considerations for Providing Professional Services Online
An
accounting firm expanding on the Internet will likely explore
several different strategies. They range from offering only
selected accounting services, to providing a complete line
of the firm’s services to clients online. Alternatively,
a firm may simply want clients to be able to receive information
from the firm’s website. Full
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Yellow Book: The Gold Standard
Most nonprofits and all government agencies that accept
federal money are required to have their audits performed
in accordance with Government Auditing Standards—the
“Yellow Book,” arguably the most rigorous auditing
standards in existence.
These standards, set by the comptroller general
of the United States, apply to both mandatory financial
audits and to voluntary audit services that are subject
to standards for performance audits.
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Tips to Combat Cybercrime
Despite
the increased efforts to strengthen Internet security in
recent years, cybercrime has jumped enormously, as shown
in the annual 2007 cybercrime survey conducted by the Computer
Security Institute (www.gocsi.com/press/
20070913.jhtml). According to the survey, the average loss
per cybercrime in 2007 for U.S. companies escalated to $350,000
from $168,000 the previous year.
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