The past year was a busy one for internal auditors. Most internal audit shops are still coming to grips with some big underlying shifts in internal audit. The biggest trend was the acceleration in the use of technology to fulfill internal audit’s objectives. The second theme of 2018 was finding Read More
Hertz Global Holdings has agreed to pay $16 million in fines to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting errors at the rental car giant that led to financial misstatements. According to the SEC filing, from February 2012 to March 2014 Hertz’s public filings “materially misstated pre-tax Read More
Guest Blog Post by Norman Marks One of the findings in a new report by Deloitte, stated in their 2018 Global Chief Audit Executive research survey, is that only 33 percent of chief audit executives (CAEs) believe their internal audit function is seen in a positive light. This is awful, Read More
The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, a professional association for internal auditors in the United Kingdom and Ireland, announced the winners of its Audit and Risk Awards 2018 this week. The awards recognize excellence in internal audit, including innovation and leaders in certain sectors. “As in previous years, the excellent Read More
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has released a new set of professional standards on conducting internal audits that are intended to provide guidance to its members on issues that may emerge during the course of the audit process. The standards, titled “Basic Principles of Internal Audit” and Read More
Professional standards are often interesting documents. Typically they offer a set of core principles that are intended to act as a beacon of light to guide behaviors and decision-making among the noble practitioners and workers who toil under the given occupation’s collective flag. These professional standards or codes of conduct Read More
The Department of Defense announced preliminary results of its first ever comprehensive audit earlier this month. It is likely the largest audit of any organization, public or private, ever conducted. The first Defense Department-wide audit covered $2.7 trillion in assets and $2.6 trillion in liabilities for fiscal year 2018, the Read More
The 2018 fiscal year was an active one for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Whistleblower program. In fact, the agency received more tips and paid out more in rewards than in any year since the SEC Whistleblower Office opened its doors in 2011. In its 2018 annual report to Congress, Read More
It’s no secret that companies have been adopting a more data-centric approach to managing risk and compliance and to improving internal audit. They are installing fancy software packages and hiring data analytics experts to help them sift through oceans of valuable data to look for patterns and outliers. But some Read More
A new report is giving many global companies poor marks for their performance on protecting human rights. The study, conducted by the U.K. non-profit organization Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB), finds that 40 percent of the 101 large companies it reviewed failed to show evidence of identifying or mitigating human Read More
