It comes as a surprise to know that allocating funds through SDA mandates no
internal audit. In any organization,
internal audit activity helps an organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and government processes.
Award: Jacob Flournoy,
internal audit director for the University of Arkansas System, has been selected to receive the American Institute of CPAs' Outstanding CPA in Government Impact Award for impact on state government.
As companies have come to accept that market volatility, complexity, political and regulatory changes are here to stay,
internal audit functions have more opportunities to contribute to businesses in a truly meaningful way, according to the PwC
Internal Audit State of the Profession 2013 survey.
Written for managers,
internal audit coordinators and internal auditors, this guide to ISO 9001 requirements is designed to help companies pass the registration audit in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.
* Ensure that the Office of Internal Auditing's annual
internal audit plan identifies the
internal audits of state agencies or divisions of those agencies scheduled for the next fiscal year
* Most forensic actions stem from one of four sources: regulatory inquiries, shareholder actions,
internal audits or outside audit concerns.
Rose, James,
Internal Audits Role in Compliance (Altamonte Springs, FL: Institute of Internal Auditors, 2002).
Part Two, "Administering
Internal Audit Activities," explains how the
internal audit function can be of greatest value to all levels of an entity It stresses the independent nature of the function and how this is reinforced when internal auditors report to the audit committee of an organization's board of directors or trustees.
For off-site monitoring purposes, the Superintendency requires extensive reporting from the institutions it supervises, including daily, monthly, quarterly, and semiannual data covering, among other matters, consolidated financial condition, liquidity, capital adequacy,
internal audit findings, and transactions with affiliates and related parties.
ISO 9001:2015
Internal Audits Made Easy: Tools, Techniques, and Step-by-Step Guidelines for Successful
Internal Audits, 4th Edition (CD-ROM included)
It is key to note that the SIC were already part of the Motorola culture and the basis for
internal audits. The reissued controls, which incorporated COSO, were not just another management fad or a new level of bureaucracy.