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    November 18, 2025
    Audit Committee Self-Assessment Guide: Key Questions for 2026
    Effective audit committees continuously evaluate their roles, responsibilities, and performance to drive improvement. Our Audit Committee Self-Assessment Questions are designed to help guide committees in their evaluation.These questions are illustrative and do not purport to cover every topic the committee should consider, nor are they intended to be a one-size-fits-all approach that applies to…

  • Client Story

    May 27, 2021
    Healthcare high achiever finds a new path to internal audit excellence
    When business leaders are committed to continuous improvement, their organisations thrive under normal circumstances. But they also demonstrate extraordinary resilience when faced with unforeseen challenges. This story is about one healthcare nonprofit’s determination to “do even better” in its internal audit operation, which resulted in immediate opportunities to create value and a road map to…

  • Whitepaper

    June 9, 2026
    From Assurance to Decision Intelligence: The Future of Internal Audit
    Unlock the future of internal audit with our decision intelligence audit approach, delivering timely risk insights to shape critical business decisions.

  • Blogs

    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.

  • Whitepaper

    September 16, 2020
    The Road to Resiliency – Building a Robust Audit Plan for Operational Resilience
    Executive Summary The financial services industry has long relied on internal audit functions to assess and challenge the effectiveness of various programmes designed to protect and build organisational value. These programmes have included disaster recovery, business continuity, risk management, cybersecurity, and many others designed to help institutions recover from an event. The pressure…

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2024
    From Conformance to Performance — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards (Part 3 of 3)
    The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) final updated Global Internal Audit Standards provide the opportunity for transformative change. The update requires the internal audit (IA) function to have a strategic plan aligned with the organisation’s strategy and defined performance objectives.

  • Whitepaper

    January 4, 2018
    Frequently Asked Questions about Developing and Maintaining an Effective Internal Audit Function
    The internal audit (IA) profession has undergone remarkable growth since 2004, when we published the first edition of our Guide to Internal Audit. At that time, we determined guidance was needed to address a number of pivotal regulatory developments, most notably the revised listing requirements from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that stated for the first time, “Every listed company…

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2024
    Focusing on Impact Areas — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards Updates (Part 2 of 3)
    In Part 1 of this blog series, we stressed the importance of educating internal audit’s stakeholders and laying the groundwork for the change management needed to support the required collaboration for effective governance of the internal audit (IA) function. In this post, we summarise key areas of change most likely to impact your organisation, and we explore in further detail areas that will…

  • Survey

    October 2, 2022
    Tackling Traditional Audit Plan Concerns and Expanding Focus on Fraud, Third Parties and Data
    Key Findings From the Latest Survey Conducted by Protiviti and AHIA on Healthcare Provider Organisation Internal Audit Plan Priorities As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wind down, many healthcare provider organisations are transitioning into a blocking-and-tackling mode, although it’s far from business as usual. Relieved of the constant pivoting that the public health emergency has demanded…

  • Client Story

    February 17, 2021
    Internal audit group converts SOX testing to real time, extends coverage tenfold using RPA
    As internal audit organisations look for effective ways to perform their work in a more agile manner, including how to leverage methodologies, data and technology to add value and become strategic advisers to their business partners, many are finding that the use of robotic process automation (RPA) checks a lot of boxes.RPA integration into internal audit functions is expanding and improving…
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