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    Ten Cybersecurity Action Items for CAEs and Internal Audit Departments
    Since the release of our 2016 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey last month, I’ve been going back and looking at the results, which also include some insightful 10-year trends. We will get back to these in another post; instead, I prefer to focus here on one aspect of the results – the growing need for cybersecurity skills and resources. Cybersecurity risk is a growing concern – not…
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    Top Risks 2016 Webinar Follow-Up: Jim DeLoach on Changes in Risk, Technology and Culture Challenges
    A few weeks ago, Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Initiative published Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2016, the results of an annual survey. Regulatory changes topped the list of executives’ and directors’ concerns for the fourth consecutive year, followed by economic concerns and worries about cyber threats. Operational risks dominated,…
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    Internal Audit Reminder: Opportunity to Comment on the New Professional Standards Ends April 30
    Thanks, again, to everyone who tuned in to the live stream of our What’s on the Internal Audit Horizon webinar on March 31. For those of you who missed it, we had a packed agenda covering a wide variety of topics. I’ll hit the highlights, but you’re going to need to watch the archived version of the one-hour webinar to get more detailed information, including best practice summaries and our road…
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    Internal Audit at a Tipping Point and Ten-Year Trends
    May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. We are celebrating with a series of blog posts focused on internal audit topics and the daily challenges and future of the internal audit profession.   In the tenth year of our Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey, we believe internal audit has arrived at a tipping point. The issue is no longer whether or not your function is…
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    Auditing Technology Risk: It’s Priority 1 Through 10
    May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. We are celebrating with a series of blog posts focused on internal audit topics and the daily challenges and future of the internal audit profession.   We issued our IT Audit Benchmarking Survey Report at the end of last year, and we discussed IT audit best practices in a December 9 webinar with our own IT audit practice leader, David…
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    Data Analytics in Internal Audit: An Imperative That Can’t Wait
    May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. We are celebrating with a series of blog posts focused on internal audit topics and the daily challenges and future of the internal audit profession.   Data analytics is a hot topic for internal audit departments. In our most recent Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs survey, data analytics figured among the top ten priorities for…
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    Financial Institutions Alert: New Credit Impairment Models Coming Soon
    The global financial crisis highlighted a number of weaknesses in the banking systems in the United States and Europe – among them, the way financial firms report their credit losses for loans and other financial instruments. Under existing models, based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the U. S. and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in other…
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    Relationships and Risks: A Closer Look at the CBOK Survey
    May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. We are celebrating with a series of blog posts focused on internal audit topics and the daily challenges and future of the internal audit profession.     I recently had the honor of hosting a webinar with The Institute of Internal Auditors on the 2016 CBOK Stakeholders Study and the evolving role of internal auditors beyond…
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    Going Beyond Assurance
    May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. We are celebrating with a series of blog posts focused on internal audit topics and the daily challenges and future of the internal audit profession.     In my last post, I gave a high-level summary of the North American results of the The IIA’s 2016 CBOK Stakeholder Study, as presented in an April 6th webinar I hosted. This…
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    Is Your Company Private? The SEC Still Has Advice for You.
    At Protiviti, we routinely counsel private companies that a good governance and control structure is a sound business strategy for any company, and particularly for fast-growth companies with outside investors. If you don’t believe us, just ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Recently, SEC chair Mary Jo White gave a speech at Stanford University, directly addressing private…
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