Audit
3 Ways Internal Audit Can Strike a Balance Between Productivity and Control
Internal audit must know how to respond when business process owners want to go faster and document less (such as in Agile environments). Nielsen’s Kevin Alvero and Wade Cassels discuss what IA can do to meet these seemingly contradictory goals. In the five months between the crashes of the Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that resulted in the deaths of 189 people and 157 people respectively, Boeing received multiple complaints from pilots about the Max 8’s...
Internal Audit’s Changing Role in a Changing Technological Environment
Experts at Nielsen discuss how the internal audit profession is evolving to best suit board and senior leadership needs, as well as where IA is lagging.
The Current Risk of Transcription Tech and How AI Can Better Meet Audit Needs
Firms are increasingly leveraging transcription technologies to gain data insights, but they need to understand these applications to make informed choices.
Why Digitally Fit Internal Audit & Compliance Functions are Vital for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is coming, and organizations must bolster their internal audit and compliance functions now to keep pace and minimize risk.
Reframing the Business Case for Audit Automation
The audit profession is facing unprecedented demands, but there are a host of tools available to help. James Bone outlines the benefits to automating audit tasks.
Better Cyber Posture Requires IT Audits, but Depends on Data Monitoring
An organizations’ weakest link is most often human, not technological. Moss Adams’ Francis Tam explains why, when it comes to cybersecurity, anomalies like daily logins, users and infrastructure changes should be an organization’s main concerns.
Scarcity in Skills and Emerging Tech Hamper Audit Teams in Keeping Pace with Change
Gartner surveyed over 300 Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) in 2018 on their resource and time investments, priorities and challenges in 2019. Gartner VP Malcolm Murray examines the report’s key findings on the impact to the audit function.
3 Ways Integrated Risk Management Enhances Internal Audit
Riskonnect’s Dawn Ward compares the traditional GRC view versus the integrated risk management (IRM) view of risks as they relate to internal audit and information systems teams. As Gartner continues to shift its focus from governance, risk and compliance (GRC) toward a focus on integrated risk management (IRM), many corporate functions are recognizing the operational significance. The shift doesn’t negate the relevance of GRC, but it does start the conversation about how IRM enhances GRC programs. One department poised to...
Preparing Your Documents to Survive an Audit
3 Tips to Help Organizations Come Out on Top "Compliance audit" is one of the last things a financial advisory firm hopes to hear, but it’s an inevitable, unavoidable fact of life for most. Fortunately, there are steps financial advisory firms can take to mitigate the requisite time and work of an audit, while paving the way to a successful outcome. Nuance’s Stacy Leidwinger discusses. The words "compliance audit" tend to strike fear and anxiety in even the most reputable,...
The Secret Reason You’re About to Fail Your IT Audit
Turning a Key Vulnerability into a Victory No matter what an organization’s major market is, it is probably subject to regulatory compliance requirements, such as PCI, SOX, FISMA and HIPAA. Failing to comply with any of these requirements could result in a failed audit, which can incur hefty penalties. This article by Markku Rossi of SSH.COM shares one little-known reason why organizations are vulnerable to failing a compliance audit. No matter your organization’s major market or sector, whether you are...
Best of 2018: Audit and the Rise of Robotic Process Automation
As 2018 draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of the most valuable insights our authors have shared. In case you missed it, this is one of the articles our readers couldn’t get enough of this year. Risks Presented in Adopting RPA with co-author Barton Edgerton A large number of organizations are quickly moving to implement robotic process automation (RPA) across a wide variety of corporate functions, ranging from shared services to finance. Most audit...
RPA: First Steps to Greater Internal Audit Efficiency
Why IA Leaders Should Care About Robotic Process Automation Robotic process automation (RPA) is drawing significant interest from Chief Audit Executives and internal audit leaders seeking to learn more about how to use it from a business improvement standpoint, as well as how to audit RPA in their organizations. Protiviti’s Andrew Struthers-Kennedy and Angelo Poulikakos discuss why RPA use remains low among internal audit departments and how organizations can change the tide to save costs and time. with co-author Angelo...
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