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    February 27, 2024
    Engaging Internal Audit Stakeholders to Build the Base for Adoption — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards (Part 1 of 3)
    The final updated Global Internal Audit Standards (“Standards”) issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors become effective January 9, 2025. In this blog series, we introduce the key Standards updates, explore the impacts of the updates on the internal audit (IA) function, provide practical guidance for adopting the changes required for compliance and consider the opportunities to move beyond…

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    April 26, 2023
    COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples
    Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO…

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    July 19, 2023
    ISSB sets new IFRS sustainability disclosure standards: Jurisdictions must act
    The ISSB has released the first sustainability disclosure standards. They’re voluntary, but wide adoption is expected among IFRS reporters around the globe.The standards focus on climate disclosures, targets and metrics, initially through ISSB S2.IFRS reporters will benefit from complying with any applicable European Sustainability Reporting Standards first because of their more comprehensive…

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    July 16, 2025
    Looking beyond compliance: The long game of sustainability management and reporting
    As regulators in Europe and the United States pump the brakes on mandatory sustainability reporting regulations, sustainability management emerges as a driver of business value on its own. Recent data shows executives are unwilling to drop sustainability from their agenda, regardless of the political winds and regulatory pull-back.

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    March 19, 2025
    IAASB’s ISSA 5000 Sets the Global Standard for Sustainability Assurance
    The International Standard on Sustainability Assurance, or ISSA 5000, developed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in late 2024, is widely expected to be the global benchmark for sustainability assurance, influencing the future of sustainability audits. As regulatory mandates for sustainability reporting increase, organisations seeking to enhance the credibility…

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    October 16, 2024
    New Technology Audit Risks Research: Cybersecurity and AI Represent Key Concerns
    Technology audit functions are navigating a dynamic business landscape that is being shaped continually by exponential growth in technologies like generative AI and the concurrent emergence of new security, privacy and data-related challenges.

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    February 23, 2026
    From Gridlock to Governance: The Case for a High-Performing Architecture Review Board
    In brief:The cost of architectural non-governance: More than half of companies are spending more than a quarter of their technology budgets on remediation, much of it architectural. (link) This is money not spent on business enablement and alignment.AI is raising the stakes: The explosion of AI and other emerging technologies has dramatically increased the volume and complexity of architectural…

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    May 26, 2023
    Transforming risk culture from the bottom up: A global insurance provider’s RCSA journey
    A leading global property and casualty insurance provider set out to transform its risk controls as part of an ongoing effort to promote a culture of excellence. Siloed knowledge of operational risk and controls made it difficult for the organisation to improve quality and compliance. Establishing awareness of vulnerabilities and mitigation protocols across the organisation would boost regulatory…

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    April 17, 2025
    Risk insights for internal audit teams
    In a dynamic business landscape filled with uncertainty, CAEs perceive most of the macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks organisations face to be higher magnitude threats compared to CEOs, CFOs and other C-suite respondents to our latest Top Risks Survey. This makes it imperative for internal audit leaders to work closely with leaders in the enterprise to ensure that risks are thoroughly…

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    June 12, 2026
    Five Tips for Driving a Successful Security GRC Program in Tech
    Security governance, risk and compliance (GRC) should be a strategic enabler for technology companies. In practice, many organisations experience the opposite: fragmented processes, blurred accountability and growing compliance obligations that feel disconnected from how the business actually operates.
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