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Expert Insights: Improving the Practice of IT Risk and Control Performance

Audit Board

JULY 7, 2023

What are the top priorities for executives as they work to improve the practice of IT risk and control performance? Building and operating your program to address those risks. How have you seen IT risk and control change over the past few years, and how do you see it continuing to evolve?

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Bigfoot? Motörhead? Sources of Learning for Internal Audit Are Everywhere

Internal Audit 360

MARCH 29, 2023

GUEST BLOG POST O ver recent years, I have found myself watching various specials on TV about the mythical Bigfoot creature. Concrete evidence always seems lacking, no matter the expert laboratory performing the analysis. Evidence of control performance, outcomes achieved, and management review is critical.

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How to Automate Monitoring and Reporting for IT General Controls

Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

What are the benefits when you automate monitoring and reporting for IT general controls? Leaders from Ernst & Young discuss the benefits of automated controls testing, what practical steps to take, and how to use AuditBoard to drive automation. What key IT processes impact automated controls testing?

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Challenges and changes within the audit industry

ThomsonReuters

JUNE 15, 2023

The introduction of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in November 2021 has set out to improve the comprehensiveness and quality of ESG reporting with four key objectives. What are some of the potential risks and opportunities that emerging technologies pose to the talent pool in the audit profession?

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Essentials of IT Risk Management: Protect Your Organization from Cyber Threats

Audit Board

AUGUST 1, 2023

The SEC recently adopted their proposed rules, including those regarding Cybersecurity Risk Management on July 26, 2023. The stakes and expectations of an organization’s IT Risk Management capabilities have never been higher – and as we all know, the dollar impacts are real.

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Understanding the Internal Audit Value Chain to Enhance Performance

Audit Board

JULY 13, 2023

As internal auditors, we are experts at analysing process design, policy implementation, and project execution. We readily grasp the big picture and identify potential improvements to organisational governance, risk management, and internal control. This is part of our journey of continuous improvement.

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The Case for Collaboration: Risk and Internal Audit Must Work Together to Navigate Geopolitical Uncertainty

Audit Board

APRIL 6, 2023

Geopolitical risks often lie outside the bounds of what businesses, and even the largest corporations, can control. Risk and internal audit professionals need to work closer together in order to navigate their organisations through the perfect storm. The principle is to tie geopolitical risk back to the organisation’s business.

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5 Strategies to Upskill Data Analytics in Your Audit Function

Audit Board

MARCH 20, 2023

Data analytics can enable internal audit teams to deliver faster assurance and more incisive insights for an organization’s leadership to act on — increasingly critical in today’s disruptive business environment. A data analytics-enabled internal audit function is only as effective as its people. Another option is to recruit.

Technology

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

Audit Board

AUGUST 31, 2023

They look at you like you’re an expert, but you don’t always feel like one. 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. We’re here to help.

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7 Steps to Prepare Your Financial Services Audit Team for an Agile Transformation

Audit Board

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A successful transition to agile auditing aids in overcoming these challenges and prepares the audit function for the rapidly evolving risk landscape of the future. Auditors in financial services face a broad spectrum of challenges as they tackle a dynamic and complex regulatory environment, rigid frameworks, and dated audit technology.

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The Connected Risk Journey: How to Discover Risk When and Where It Really Matters

Audit Board

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On your connected risk journey, careful planning and guidance from audit, risk management, and compliance professionals are essential for business success when facing risk challenges such as digital transformation, climate change, supply chain disruption, and economic uncertainty. This is the decade of uncertainty.

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Maturing ESG Program Management

Audit Board

MAY 5, 2023

ESG Maturity Landscape : best practices for growing your own organization’s ESG maturity. AuditBoard's Claire Feeney and Arsh Kaur share best practices for building an audit-ready ESG program. We can see that a vast majority of consumers really expect corporations to be actively shaping ESG best practices.

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Top accounting issues in 2023

ThomsonReuters

APRIL 18, 2023

Firms must have the ability to quickly and efficiently conduct tax research and improve tax reporting efficiencies to stay competitive in today’s complex regulatory environment. What are the current issues in accounting? Some of the issues vary by firm — depending on the size of the firm, the resources a firm currently has in place, etc. —

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The Big Shift: Positioning your firm to help clients evolve

ThomsonReuters

APRIL 15, 2021

Business needs are changing, requiring companies to seek new strategic capabilities. Tax and accounting firms are uniquely positioned to be strategic advisors and service providers for their clients—but CPA firms must evolve, too. Marketplaces are becoming tighter and competition fiercer. The workplace is becoming more technology-driven.

Accounting Firms

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App Valuation: How to Build, Value and Sell an App

FE International

MARCH 14, 2018

As the market-leading advisor for online business sales, the team at FE International answers questions every day about the best practices of selling an app business. Building Around Value. The Three App Types. Universal Apps. How to Value an App. How to Sell an App. Conclusion. Software development is a unique and ever-evolving industry.

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Expert Insights: Improving the Practice of IT Risk and Control Performance

Bigfoot? Motörhead? Sources of Learning for Internal Audit Are Everywhere

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How to Automate Monitoring and Reporting for IT General Controls

Challenges and changes within the audit industry

Essentials of IT Risk Management: Protect Your Organization from Cyber Threats

Understanding the Internal Audit Value Chain to Enhance Performance

The Case for Collaboration: Risk and Internal Audit Must Work Together to Navigate Geopolitical Uncertainty

5 Strategies to Upskill Data Analytics in Your Audit Function

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

7 Steps to Prepare Your Financial Services Audit Team for an Agile Transformation

The Connected Risk Journey: How to Discover Risk When and Where It Really Matters

Maturing ESG Program Management

Top accounting issues in 2023

The Big Shift: Positioning your firm to help clients evolve

App Valuation: How to Build, Value and Sell an App

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