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- Attracting Great Candidates for Your Internal Audit Department
- Internal Audit IA teams are under increasing pressure to attract and retain high-quality auditors who can add value to the complex audit, risk management and corporate governance strategies in place in many companies. This article depicts that to meet this critical business need, IA directors must develop effective techniques and...
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- Best Practices in Internal Audit
- Once relegated to corporate-risk cop, the role of internal auditors is changing. Like their colleagues in the finance department, internal auditors are leveraging their knowledge of operational efficiencies to expand their internal consulting activities and, ultimately, add greater value. Internal auditors are working with business unit managers to identify areas...
- White papers 1999-11-01
- Beyond Traditional Audit Techniques
- The article says that internal auditors do not just audit control activities, they also monitor a company's risk profile and play a key role in identifying areas to improve risk management processes. However, if they do not completely understand the risks of the business, internal auditors can perform only traditional...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Internal Audit Co-Sourcing at National Telecommunications Provider
- Skilled staff was needed by the company's to interview candidates and select the right person to do the work. Protiviti was engaged to provide Internal Audit loan staff services. The team led three audits, working closely with the director of Internal Audit. In both the Post-Implementation and the Inventory Management...
- Case studies
- Internal Audit Outsourcing and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for National Drug Store Chain
- The Protiviti engagement team was able to provide the company, one of the most recognized retail drug store chains on the West Coast with an outsourced internal audit function delivered by professionals with relevant industry experience. Through consistency in personnel and responsiveness, the engagement team has been able to assist...
- Case studies
- David Landau & Associates, LLC Broadens Its Management Team with the New Hire of Former Grant Thornton Partner RoAnna Pascher, CPA to Director of the Internal Audit & Accounting Advisory Group
- FAIRFIELD, N.J. -- DLA is proud to announce that RoAnna Pascher, CPA, has joined the Firm as Director of the firm's Internal Audit & Accounting Advisory Group. RoAnna brings with her a deep knowledge of Accounting and SEC policy, rules and regulations,, and Financial Reporting. Her hands-on approach, insight to...
- Research articles 2008-04-24
- Henderson braced for critical internal report.
- Byline: Alistair Graham Senior executives at Henderson Global Investors, part of Australian insurance giant AMP, are braced this week for the final results of a critical internal report that has identified compliance failures at the fund management firm.The report follows last week's leaked initial...
- Research articles 2003-08-11
- The Internal Auditor
- The internal auditor role is normally staffed by a number of experienced employees from throughout the organization. The purpose of the internal audit is to confirm that the company's documentation meets requirements (e.g. ISO9001, OSHA, etc.) and that day-to-day operations follow the documentation. This article explains various factors taken in...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Bencmarking Against
- THE ALLSTATE INTERNAL AUDIT TEAM TACKLED A REAL HEAVYWEIGHT -- CFIA -- AND WON. THEIR RECENT BENCHMARKING INITIATIVE LED TO INSIGHTS, IMPROVEMENTS, AND PROVOCATIVE QUESTIONS. AT FIRST GLANCE, THE COMPETENCY Framework for Internal Auditing CFIA may seem intimidating. Its sheer size--six volumes and almost 1,000 pages of text--has apparently...
- Research articles 2000-08-01
- Bad timing of AMP's latest setback piles on the pressure.
- Aug 07, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Reports regarding a leaked internal management report from AMP "spooked the market" on 7 August 2003. The news suggested there had been compliance breaches at AMP's Henderson Global Investors operation in the UK. In its...
- Research articles 2003-08-07
- Staying in Control
- A customized database system enhances auditings ability to manage internal controls. One of the most common problems associated with SAP implementations is the elimination of traditional controls without replacing them with new measures. Failure to consider this issue early on may lead to expensive retrofitting, requiring key controls to...
- Research articles 1999-08-01
- Allstate's risk assessment approach to selecting operational audit topics - includes related article
- Allstate's internal auditing team is maximizing productivity through a seven-step risk assessment process.
- Research articles 1994-04-01
- OpenPages and PricewaterhouseCoopers Team Up to Reduce the Costs of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Audits
- OpenPages, the leading provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management GRCM solutions, and PricewaterhouseCoopers today unveiled new capabilities to further reduce the time and resource costs of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance through interoperability between OpenPages SOX Express and PricewaterhouseCoopers TeamMate. Interoperability between SOX Express and PwC TeamMate enables companies to leverage...
- Research articles 2005-08-15
- Will history repeat itself? Sweeping reforms passed in 2002 altered business practices worldwide. But have things really changed? Could the floodwaters of fraud precipitate another corporate meltdown?
- THE MASSIVE FRAUDS AT ENRON AND WORLDCOM are forever etched into the memories of most Americans, and burned into the pocketbooks of millions of innocent investors who saw their savings vanish. Lives have been ruined. Reputations have been destroyed. Faith in the U.S. stock market has been shaken to its...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Turning tragic story into one of hope and encouragement
- Nearly three years ago, Cynthia Cooper was in the eye of the storm of the world's largest accounting fraud when she led the internal audit team that uncovered the $11-billion corporate fraud at WorldCom. For her role in detecting and reporting the situation at the nation's second-largest long-distance phone company,...
- Research articles 2005-01-24
- Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower.(bookshelf)(Book review)
- Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. By Cynthia Cooper. John Wiley & Sons, 402 pages. $27.95. By now, the outlines of Cynthia Cooper's story are well-known. In 2002, as head of the internal audit team at telecom giant WorldCom Inc., she...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Outlook: AMP/Henderson
- WHEN CONFRONTED with an awkward story, the oldest trick in the book is to deny something that was never asserted in the first place. The statement issued yesterday to the Australian Stock Exchange by AMP in response to our revelations about lax standards in its London fund management...
- Research articles 2003-08-08
- IRS to focus on Section 527 compliance. (Headlines).(Brief Article)
- The Internal Revenue Service says it intends to establish an audit team to focus on organizations subject to Section 527 regulations, and ensure compliance with requirements by early next year. The audit team is part of the fiscal year 2003 IRS Exemp The Internal Revenue Service...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Corporate Audit Committees: An Approach to Continuous Improvement
- Audit committees today are faced with the sizable task of overseeing both the auditing and financial reporting processes. The final rules of the SEC, national stock exchanges, and the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board cover corporate governance of audit committees, including independence, qualifications, charters, external auditor involvement, and reports. It remains...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- A-Power Energy Fires CFO, Will It Matter in the Long Run?
- Trader Mark submits: Ok, finally we have the fire behind the smoke. Tuesday morning a press release about the termination of the CFO at A-Power Energy APWR - now the first reaction when I see the CFO leaving is abject fright since it usually means a litany of bad news...
- External links 2008-10-07
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