Microsoft Excel is a powerful financial software package, and that makes it a suitable choice for audit spreadsheets and similar documents. You can make the audit spreadsheets and checklists you ...

As a CPA, I've used spreadsheets as my go-to resource for work for a long time, whether for performing calculations, reconciling data or one-off project tracking. My family is familiar with my love of ...

Auditing is, at best, a cumbersome and time-consuming engagement. Whether it’s an audit of internal controls, or one to produce audited financial statements, there’s always a fairly complex and time- ...

We’ve long been warned that the use of Excel spreadsheets throughout the enterprise line of business seriously hampers many compliance and auditing efforts. The lack of controls and change management ...

CPAs are often tasked with vetting or working with numbers in a spreadsheet. And while accountants are well-trained to identify and correct accounting errors, spreadsheets bring the danger of many ...