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Planning for Possible Changes in Your Audit Engagement

August 27, 2012 by Staff
Copeland Buhl
As you plan for your next financial statement audit, there are changes in auditing standards that may impact your engagement. Statements on Auditing Standards (SAS) Nos. 122-125 (referred to as the Clarified Auditing Standards) introduce some changes that go into effect for financial statement audits for periods ending on or...
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Protecting Your Data

April 18, 2012 by Staff
Information Systems
Being an accounting firm we maintain a lot of confidential information.  We take securing this data very seriously.  Copeland Buhl employs current firewall and unified threat management solutions.  Reports from these devices are regularly monitored, and suspicious activity dealt with.  Regularly systems are scanned for vulnerabilities or potential misconfiguration. To protect client data,...
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On Premises or Cloud Computing - continued

April 12, 2012 by Staff
Information Systems
On Wednesday we discussed systems which in the right circumstance could be cloud based.  Today we will look at systems, which should stay on premise or be cautiously moved to the cloud. “If I can’t access it for 24 hours, what will be the impact on my business?” Many small...
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On Premises or Cloud Computing

April 10, 2012 by Staff
Information Systems
There is a lot of hype about cloud computing these days.  Many businesses have been “cloud computing” for years, hosting it themselves using Microsoft Terminal Services or Citrix.  Today’s version of cloud computing generally means outsourcing a business’ applications and data storage needs.  In certain cirumstances this new version of...
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