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 Our third edition of "Internal audit in brief" - the newsletter designed to give internal audit leaders a summary of the topical issues we are seeing in the marketplace.
As internal audit functions continue to take stock of their role within the organisations, PwC's 2009 Internal Audit Survey showed that many functions were increasingly expected to do more with less. In this issue we include articles which cover some aspects of the broader risk and assurance landscape facing many Heads of Internal Audit including assurance mapping, fraud and business continuity, as well as an article on the merits of technology to improve quality and efficiency.
- Business continuity - Swine flu reminds us all of the importance of having good controls in place to ensure that the organisation is robust enough to survive a major incident.
- Assurance maps - Understanding your assurance framework is essential to help identify gaps and overlaps. Assurance mapping can be a key tool to help you achieve this.
- Fraud - When fraud occurs questions are often asked as to why the problem was not spotted sooner. Here we look at some key areas Internal Audit should focus on.
- Audit management systems - Most would recognise that maintaining quality standards and maximising audit efficiencies requires AMS usage. Leveraging these benefits across the enterprise wide risk and compliance framework is the ultimate goal.
- Controls - Ensuring that people across the organisation have the right skills and risk and controls awareness is a must. Internal Audit departments could not be better placed to support this training need whilst providing ongoing controls improvement guidance.
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