Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. The interrelated final standards on ...

The interrelated final standards on quality management issued in June 2022 by the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board and Accounting and Review Services Committee are intended to clarify and improve ...

You’ve heard of probable cause. You’ve found the root causes of problems. But what is plausible cause, and why should we care? After all, plausible cause isn’t even an entry in my favorite dictionary ...

Patient safety remains a cornerstone of effective healthcare delivery, with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) emerging as a vital process for understanding and preventing adverse events. RCA is a systematic ...

Just as risk assessment is the bedrock for an effective compliance program, root cause analysis (“RCA”) similarly underpins successful remediation of compliance violations. The DOJ’s March 2023 ...

TORONTO – Looking into the root cause of incidents can help efforts to prevent future issues, according to recent presentations by the new International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) ...

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

The 2023 ECCP re-emphasized the need for both performing a root cause analysis but equally importantly using it to remediate your compliance program. It stated, “a hallmark of a compliance program ...

Root-cause analysis is core to problem-solving across many fields. From hospitals searching for patient safety issues to engineers diagnosing faults in complex machinery, finding the source of a ...

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Nothing is more frustrating for a fleet than bringing a truck back to a shop for a recurring problem. Given the cost of downtime, fleets expect repairs to be made correctly the first time. Yet, there ...