Quality system objectives were originally introduced as part of the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system. ISO 9001:2000 mandated the use of quality objectives at every important area of a company's ...

All firms that perform accounting or attest engagements must have their new quality management system in place by Dec. 15, 2025. These new standards require firms to develop quality objectives around ...

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing ...

Total Quality Management is a formal management style premised on the notion that measurement of a finished product or project is insufficient to ensure quality. Instead, each process necessary for ...

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 ...

As we strive for the high quality of patents sought by President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation, we should thus strive equally to avoid subjective judgments of what does or does not qualify ...

Subjective associations of poor sleep are known to be linked with worse health-related quality of life in Parkinson disease, but correlating objective measures are harder to find. Researchers sought ...

CMS carries over large amounts of funding available each year for programs measuring Medicare care quality and could devote more resources to tracking those programs because it "lacks complete ...

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