Featured publications
| Internal audit 2012
A study examining the future of internal auditing and the potential decline of a controls-centric approach.
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- A strategic player: Hiring and inspiring a chief audit executive (CAE)
Many companies are raising the expectations for their chief audit executives (CAEs) to include operating at more strategic levels of risk management and corporate governance. Successful CAEs must partner effectively with the audit committee and other members of the senior management team to achieve their objectives.
- Audit committee effectiveness: What works best, 3rd edition
This monograph provides numerous examples of how leading audit committees are not just coping, but are succeeding in discharging their evolving and substantial responsibilities. Face-to-face input from 40 of the most experienced, knowledgeable audit committee chairs and thought leaders went into its development.
- How quality assurance reviews can strengthen the strategic value of internal auditing
In response to an increased focus on effective governance, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) issued two key provisions to revise standards for the practice of internal audit. Of the two provisions, the external quality assurance review (QAR), is considered to be particularly important, reflecting the enhanced role played by internal audit departments in the risk, control and governance activities of many major corporations today. Most large companies will have completed extensive external assessments. However, is the strategic potential of this effort being fully utilized by the organizations undertaking these procedures?
- Unearth the knowledge of power
This article explores approaches audit departments can take to help solidify their stature as an enterprisewide resource for risk, control, and standard industry practices information.
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