When conducting process improvement, Root Cause Analysis is a physical, human-centric exercise. It involves stakeholders ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The surge in enterprise AI has fueled interest in causal analysis. In this piece, I explore the threads that bind cause and effect - and how they can be applied across a range of industry scenarios.

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

As industries replace manual processes with automated workflows, root cause analysis (RCA) is being retooled to address software-driven operations. Failures now often stem from flawed logic, ...

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 ...

Natalie Gross is a freelance journalist and podcast producer based in the Washington, D.C., area. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Georgetown University. The morning of Aug. 16, 2019 began ...