Internal auditors are traditionally defined as in-house accountants who conduct regular and continuous examination of financial records and internal controls. Business risk refers to the probability ...

Love him or hate him (few are undecided), Tim Leech is a man of passion. He is passionate on the topics of internal audit and risk management, to name just two. Now Tim and I often disagree, and we do ...

A rise in the number of cyber attacks on businesses, organizations and individuals is prompting new guidance and controls by internal audit to mitigate risk and prevent loss of data and damage from ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeing security risks to internal auditors, along with economic uncertainty and regulatory risks. In the firm’s 2012 PwC State of the Internal Audit Profession study, global ...

Many of the top risks organizations face today are related to technology. As a result, internal auditors are paying close attention to areas such as cybersecurity, data privacy, and social media.

Organizations will need to test more frequently for an increasing number of risks to internal controls, according to a recent poll by Deloitte. In the year ahead, 55.9% of the more than 350 C-suite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. This article is more than 3 years old. The internal audit (IA) ...

We promote appropriate internal controls and adherence to Cortland policies. Always striving to work with teams across the campus, together we will focus on process improvements to lessen risk ...

Internal auditors are a company's financial watchdogs. Their task is to objectively examine a company's financial documents and review the operating procedures independent of management. When internal ...

Are you an auditor engaged to audit an entity that is less complex? If so, you may wonder why you spend time on the audit evaluating internal control. This may seem like an exercise that is much more ...

Marks starts by defining export controls and their significance: regulations governing the export, re-export, and transfer of goods, technology, and services across borders to protect national ...

Western Illinois University supports an internal auditing department as an administrative staff function and as an independent appraisal function to examine and evaluate University business or ...