Author: IA360 Staff

Three lines of defense update

New Report Finds CCO Compensation on the Rise

BarkerGilmore, a Chief Compliance Officer executive search firm specializing in compliance leadership, has released its 2026 Chief Compliance Officer Compensation Report, providing an in-depth analysis of Chief Compliance Officer compensation, executive mobility, and leadership trends across today’s compliance market. The report examines Chief Compliance Officer compensation data across public, private, Read More

Shadow AI: The Growing Risk Internal Auditors Must Address

Shadow IT has challenged internal auditors for more than a decade. Shadow AI is the same phenomenon, but accelerated, more opaque, and materially riskier. It refers to employees using generative and agentic AI tools without the knowledge or approval of IT, compliance, or risk management. Attorneys pasting contracts into public Read More

Institute of Internal Auditors

The Institute of Internal Auditors Names New Global Board Chair for 2026-2027

The Institute of Internal Auditors has named Stacey Schabel, CIA, CPA, as Chair of the Global Board for the 2026-2027 term. The announcement was made during The IIA’s 2026 International Conference in Singapore. Schabel joins the ranks of volunteer leaders who have helped shape the profession and guide the IIA’s Read More

How Internal Audit Teams Can Identify Control Gaps in Order-to-Cash Workflows

From the moment a customer places an order to the point cash is collected and revenue is recognized, the order-to-cash (O2C) cycle is one of the most complex and consequential processes in any organization. Despite being well understood in theory, it consistently produces significant control failures in practice. The handoffs Read More

Auditing Risk Management

New Global Risk Landscape Report Finds Risk Are Accelerating

Each year, BDO surveys more than 500 C-suite leaders across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas who offer their insight and opinions on risk. The resulting annual 2026 Global Risk Landscape Report has become an important source of information on how business leaders and senior risk specialists Read More

Compliance Variation

Navigating the Growing Challenge of Regional Compliance Variations

Many multinational organizations believe their compliance programs are standardized across regions. Yet internal audit teams are increasingly discovering the opposite. Internal audit executives are increasingly operating in a landscape where regions no longer have a single compliance structure. They are experiencing diverging demands from individual countries for regulation, employee mandates, Read More

Legal Department Tech Budgets Expected to Double by 2028

Technology budgets at legal departments are predicted to double in the next two years, according to research and analysis by Gartner Inc. According to the business and technology insights company, specialized legal AI platforms, such as Harvey, Legora, GC AI, and Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, are delivering significant productivity and efficiency Read More

Repeat audit findings

Why So Many Audit Findings Repeat Year After Year

Recurring audit findings are a familiar challenge for most internal audit functions. Year after year, the audit is completed, the report is issued, and management commits to remediation. Yet, when the next audit begins, the same findings reemerge. Different year, same weakness, same conversation. After twenty years in internal audit Read More