how to advance from audit to advisory

moving from quality control to quality assurance lets you advance from auditing and accounting to assurance and advisory.

by alan anderson, cpa
transforming audit for the future

for decades, a&a has stood for audit and accounting. it’s been focused on compliance. but sooner than we may want to believe, business owners and stakeholders will be using technology to provide the assurance they need.

this is already happening. to remain viable, we need to move a&a from audit and accounting to assurance and advisory.

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now all auditors take the quality control standards of our profession seriously. but quality control that only happens at the end is more about satisfying the minimum requirements for compliance. it won’t let you move out of providing the commodity service that clients need to keep their stakeholders happy. quality at the end doesn’t provide an opportunity to really look under the hood and think about what the client really wants.