The latest Global Internal Audit Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK) Stakeholder Study report, Auditing Strategic Risks: Practical Insights from Internal Audit Leaders, reveals that nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of stakeholders want internal audit to take a more active role in strategic risks. Many chief audit executives are reporting they are Read More
Every company must have a deliberate plan to prevent and detect fraud and should never underestimate the potential of an attack from within. According to a recent report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud & Abuse, the typical organization loses 5 percent of revenues each year to fraud. To learn Read More
A new report from consulting firm Protiviti takes a close look at several companies’ audit departments as they attempt to adopt new technologies or help the business through digital transformation. The publication highlights the achievements of such companies as Accenture, Conservas La Costeña, Heineken, JP Morgan Chase, Juniper Network, Panera Read More
The tops risks that chief audit executives face, as identified by a new report, are likely to be familiar foes for most internal audit leaders. Chief audit executives (CAEs) are unlikely to be alarmed by a new report listing the top five risks confronting internal audit; they’ve been battling them Read More
The U.S. House has approved a sweeping overhaul of bank regulations, sending to President Donald Trump a bill that will give him a chance to make good on his vow to “do a big number” on the Dodd-Frank Act. The new legislation will repeal several provisions of Dodd-Frank, adopted in Read More
In the wake of a blistering report that branded the city of Santa Fe’s one-person internal audit department as ineffective and incompetent, the city is moving forward with a plan to outsource internal audit and all audit functions in the upcoming fiscal year. The city finance committee endorsed a recommendation Read More
Advertising spend is often a “black box” at many companies and when budgets and economic conditions are tight, it can be the first area to be cut. The correlation of ad spend to revenue is usually not well understood, while spending reductions will presumably flow directly to the bottom line. Read More
Elizabeth Johnstone, the chairman of the ASX Corporate Governance Council in Australia, has a frank message for internal auditors: stop being intimidated by company executives and board members. While Johnstone was addressing risk and governance failures in Australia, including multiple scandals at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, her words serve Read More
It might be time for a data governance and compliance audit. A new survey by ISACA finds that more than two out of three companies aren’t fully prepared to comply with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which creates new rules for how companies manage and protect Read More
Internal audit and risk expert Norman Marks recently blogged on the topic of why internal audit findings sometimes go ignored. Indeed, there have been several recent examples where an organization experienced a public failure even though the issue had previously been identified and reported by the internal audit team. “When Read More
