A quality audit examines your company's quality management system. A quality system auditor closely guards the checklist he uses and can adapt the list to ensure it applies to your business. If you ...

The concepts of quality assurance and audits are two distinct ideas that serve the same purpose: improving quality, consistency and reliability in operations. Quality assurance is more of an abstract ...

How often and how much does your firm think about quality? Every auditor is, by nature, committed to quality. Every firm has final quality control steps built into its production process. However, ...

Many small firms and sole practitioners are unclear about how exactly to fulfill the monitoring and remediation requirements in Statement on Quality Management Standards (SQMS) No. 1, A Firm’s System ...

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing ...

A quality management system (QMS) is essential to a safe and efficiently run diagnostic radiology department, providing quality clinical images while maintaining patient and staff radiation doses as ...

The manufacturing industry is more competitive than ever, rewarding forward-thinking manufacturers who successfully accomplish quality, safety and environmental responsibility in their operations.

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — For Emmett Henry, a quality systems specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, gaining professional certifications is his way of bringing value to the ...

IEC 62941 is the only quality system management standard in the photovoltaic industry. Compared with ISO9001, it is more specific to the photovoltaic industry. It is a system of standards with ...

The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) has raised renewed concerns about audit quality in South Africa, warning that weaknesses remain concentrated in high-risk and judgement-intensive ...