Why you need to provide continuous training and coaching to your audit team We often take it for granted, or in some instances, even...

Determining how much input the auditee should have in the audit scope At the start of each audit, it is important that we undertake...

Presenting your internal audit update to the audit committee Audit committee reporting needs to be simple and to the point, yet contain...

Manager your Internal Audit Annual Plan and team leave Managing the Annual Plan and team leave is not an easy task. There are so many...

6 goals to help your audit team succeed in the new year 2020 has thrown a lot of challenges at audit teams, but overall, teams have...

With the impact of COVID, and more generally, a change in the way we work, a traditional approach to annual planning may not be possible....

Top 5 things to consider when building your Internal Audit Annual Plan as a result of COVID-19 2020 has been a year for the history books...

Why you should have a strategy for your Internal Audit department and how to write one Similar to an organisation's own strategy, a...

Whilst each audit department should abide by the requirements as set out in the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF),...

IIA updates defense model On the 20th July, The Institute of Internal Auditors released its updated Three Lines of Defense Model. The new...

Standalone standard risk assessments are not enough to formulate and maintain a robust security strategy to protect your company’s...

Timesheets, whilst painful, can offer a lot of benefits. We spoke about these benefits in a recent blog post (Time for timesheets)....

Why your internal audit team should be completing weekly timesheets Don't get me wrong. I hate timesheets as much as the next guy. It...

Why we need to ensure we reference our audit files and workpapers well It might seem like such a basic concept, but too often do we see...

Promoting the work of Internal Audit and raising awareness of who we are can help the business (and the audit function) in may ways....

10 key questions to ask about your business resilience For some it's still a long way off, but for others, a return back to a normal life...

Making sure you know where the audits are at, and who's doing what. Performing a weekly status update is a great way to ensure all audits...

Although we are a number of weeks into our 'remote working' situations, the level of disruption caused by coronavirus has severely...

Pulling together a well rounded Internal Audit Annual Plan. At the start of the year, we released our Guidance document on the Annual...

The Big 4 audit firms, and audit in general really, have been through a lot over the past number of years. There have been numerous calls...