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CAE Toolkit: Designing Effective Audit Committee Meetings

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This article and downloadable PDF will provide advice and a checklist the CAE can use as a participant in audit committee meetings to make sure they focus on areas of risk and governance involving internal audit that matter to the organization. Presenting “audit issues” sounds much like simplistic compliance checklist auditing.

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ESG Audit Checklist & Best Practices for 2022

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Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) is a framework for assessing risks to a company’s operations related to large-scale, long-term environmental, social, and governance issues. An ESG audit will also substantiate the accuracy of any ESG-related data your organization discloses to employees, stakeholders, and regulatory entities.

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Audit Committee Toolkit: Maximizing Value From Internal Audit

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Read on and download the PDF below for a checklist of questions for audit committee members to ask the CAE to set expectations, drive meaningful communication, and dig deeper into organizational risks. So much of the traditional internal audit function is a review of past events based on an assessment of past risks. Risk Trending.

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ESG Controls Essentials: Complying With New Requirements

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These topics can be identified through the use of a materiality assessment, either with internal stakeholders or with key investors or customers. Entity-level controls can also include activities like completing a periodic ESG risk assessment or materiality assessment.

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Compliance Audit Basics: Definition, Types, and What to Expect

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Compliance audits are formal evaluations or assessments of an organization’s adherence to frameworks and/or regulatory requirements. Results in some kind of final deliverable, like a report, an assessment, or an audit opinion. Let’s take the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act as an example. What Is a Compliance Audit?

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Streamline Your SOX Certifications: Two Checklists to Boost Efficiency

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For SOX practitioners seeking to create efficiency in their testing programs , control certifications are a prime area for automation. Using a SOX technology solution to automate certification workflows can greatly streamline the process of quarterly certifications and return valuable time back to the SOX group and control owners.

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ESG Regulations Guide: Decoding the US, UK, and EU Climate Rules

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With the rise of each new question or headline about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and regulatory requirements, your organization expects you to have answers. Applicability Which ESG regulations apply to your organization? Materiality How do the disclosure rules assess materiality?