The audit profession is eyeing blockchain. With capital markets and investors constantly demanding more information about businesses, it’s no surprise that the audit profession is looking at ...

Although emerging blockchain technology may significantly change financial statement auditing, accounting professionals will continue to have an important role in the audit and may see new ...

Accounting firms are beginning to wade into the use of blockchain technology for audits, but with caution as the technology spreads beyond the cryptocurrency space where it’s been used for digital ...

The AICPA has proposed a new set of standards for evaluating audit data, giving auditors guidelines on how to deal with audit evidence provided via blockchain. The new proposal, the so-dubbed Proposed ...

Blockchain Technology and its Potential Impact on the Audit and Assurance Profession from Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada), the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Waterloo ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Smart contracts are talked about quite a lot. What is often ignored, however, is their ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS), which in February 2017 launched the first commercial deployment of blockchain technology for private equity, announced today that audit firms ...

As bitcoin has emerged from the underground world of nerds and criminals to become a mainstream investment, the risk of hacks and scandals has also blossomed. What's a government to do? The WSJ's ...