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 ...

Quality management systems are really just about one thing: quality. But assuring quality in your products and services has a nice ripple effect of increasing customer satisfaction and keeping them ...

Quality control is more than just keeping track of the number of products produced. It helps manufacturers increase productivity and improve the overall health of the company. Product quality is ...

In quality planning, the project manager defines and codifies the standards the project will be required to meet to be successful, and how those standards will be achieved and confirmed. Managers ...

Implementing the new standard on quality management (QM) by the Dec. 15, 2025, deadline may seem daunting, but the AICPA has developed resources and tools to get started, including a recently revised ...

Owners must manage capital projects well to keep costs under control and ensure a high-quality product is delivered on time. Good communication, sound procedures and processes, and high-tech tools can ...

The adoption of a quality management system (QMS) should be a strategic decision of a Nuclear Medicine service. Its design and implementation will be influenced by various factors, for example the ...

One thing I really like about the new edition of Juran's Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence by Joseph Defeo and J.M Juran is that the word "customer" is used 578 times. All ...

While companies may share common ground when it comes to their data quality problems, data quality tools and strategies are not one-size-fits-all solutions to the problem. Each company should approach ...

In part one of this series we discussed how most organizations fall midway on the quality management continuum for their organizational structure, competence assurance and procedural adherence. Though ...

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