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Maintaining compliance throughout the supply chain is dependent in part on an effective audit practice. It’s critical to ensure suppliers’ ...

In terms of efficiency, companies achieve the best outcomes when the work of internal and external audit teams is aligned. ...

Advancements in technology have impacted nearly every corner of the world – the audit is no exception. Technological shifts have ...

Compliance managers understand the need for stringent protection of employee medical and health information. Managers may not understand, though, that ...

Richard Chambers has long heralded the importance of the internal audit function among large corporations. It’s a stance supported by ...

This year's Compliance Week conference was rife with excellent speeches from compliance experts. Tom Fox shares with us the highlights ...

Most audit executives work hard to develop open relationships with their audit committee members. The effort generally pays off. Regardless ...

In light of recent developments, the profession must rethink the role of internal audit and even its very practices and ...

The winds of change are blowing, and internal audit is squarely in their path. Shifting demands from clients (namely Boards ...

Though it won't take effect until early in 2017, the time is now for audit committees to start adopting the ...

In manufacturing, design issues are expected to some degree, but when it's medical devices being produced as opposed to televisions, ...

Just as risks are ever changing, so should our plans for managing them be. Internal audit must do away with ...