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Tag: internal audit
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Emerging Risks: Who Is Watching?
Whose job is it to identify, assess and react to risks? If you responded with anyone other than management, read on.
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8 Biggest Risks for Internal Auditors in 2018
Internal auditors put their own roles at risk if they fail to focus on the broader business's success
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The Wells Fargo Fraud: Where Was Internal Audit?
Many parts of the Wells Fargo staff "scam" are mind-boggling. It’s not just that staff at Wells Fargo opened an estimated 2 million deposit accounts and applied for roughly 565,000 credit c
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Internal Audit Pushes Beyond the Tipping Point
Forces are pushing multiple business departments to be more agile in their day to day operations, and internal audit is no exception. Faced with an ever-changing list of risks, internal audit is
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Do Board Members Understand Internal Audit?
Do top executives and board members understand the role of internal audit and the capabilities it offers? This question was prompted by a post that a valued member of my network, Alfred Rodas, brought
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Reflections on IT Risk, Technology, Risk Management, Internal Audit
All the studies show an increasing pace of change in and around technology. It’s not just that we run the back-office with enterprise software, it is also invading the front office and the produ
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Should Internal Audit Be Responsible for Detecting Fraud?
Internal auditors love fraud: detecting it and investigating it. The majority of boards and top management expect internal auditors to dedicate a fair portion of their time to auditing for fraud and p
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The Path to Excellence for Internal Audit
If internal audit is to remain relevant, it needs to move beyond the services currently performed to provide assurance to the main stakeholders.Two PerspectivesEarlier this year, I wrote about PwC&rsq
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PwC on the State of the Internal Audit Profession - Their Opinion
I added the phrase ‘their opinion’ to the end of the title, because while PwC always reports what respondents say, it is understandably difficult to do so with bias. PwC (PricewaterhouseCo
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