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Preparing to Choose Your SOX Operating Model: Three Key Steps

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Your organization’s SOX operating model is the core of your SOX program. Accordingly, your choice of operating model has a massive impact on your ability to plan and execute an efficient, effective, high-quality SOX program. Understand the Four SOX Operating Models.

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Who Owns ESG Today? Second Line Evolution and the Integrated Reporting Imperative

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Who owns environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in your organization? Many have responded by creating an ESG Program Manager and/or ESG Controller role, raising a compelling question: Is ESG creating a new “second line of defense” function, adding a fresh layer to the Institute of Internal Auditors’ (IIA’s) Three Lines Model ?

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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Fundamentals

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Other outgrowths of risk management include operational risk management (ORM), IT risk management (ITRM), project risk management (PRM), and supply chain risk management (SCRM), which can all be consolidated into an enterprise risk management program. The practice of risk management has a long history, with origins dating back to the 1920s.

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Your Top SOX Readiness Questions Answered

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Choosing a SOX program operating model for your business is not a decision you’ll make only once. That’s why, over time, most businesses will employ a range of SOX operating models. Five Top SOX Readiness Questions. There is no one-size-fits-all SOX operating model.

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Auditing a System Implementation: Potential Questions, Risks, and Audit Areas of Focus

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Considerations When Planning Your Audit At the beginning of the implementation, there were several key decisions we had to make to set the stage for our involvement. With constant improvements and technological advances, organizations regularly add new applications, consolidate functions, and move systems to the cloud.

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How Would You Pitch Internal Audit to Elon Musk?

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It is your first week at the social media heavyweight. You are walking through the company’s San Francisco headquarters on your way to an orientation group for new hires that you are supposed to join that morning. As you try to find your way, you hop in an elevator, hoping it will put you on the right path to the meeting.