Audit Board

JULY 13, 2022

For SOX practitioners seeking to create efficiency in their testing programs , control certifications are a prime area for automation. Best practice indicates control owners should be certifying their controls on a quarterly basis. Quarterly Control Certifications Checklist. 302 Certifications Checklist.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They feel an increasing urgency to get in place the people, processes, controls, and technologies needed to support reliable, up-to-date, accessible, and auditable ESG reporting. Who owns environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in your organization? Who should own it? Every company wants to know how other companies are handling ESG.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Internal control over financial reporting, shortened to ICFR, consists of those controls that support and enforce the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of a company’s financial statements. What Does Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICFR) Mean? ICFR’s importance rose with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the U.S.,

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Audit Board

JUNE 15, 2023

In our Spotlight on Success series, Alex Byrne, Director of Internal Audit of Watts Water , shares how he realized his vision for a holistic solution that would eliminate version control issues and bring all his PBCs, testing, and reporting together in a single source of truth. The challenge that we had was ownership and version control.

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Audit Board

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Over 60% of SOX compliance programs use an audit management solution or GRC platform to enable compliance, and three out of four organizations are seeking opportunities to further enable automation in their program (Protiviti’s 2023 SOX Compliance Survey Report ).

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Audit Board

MARCH 31, 2022

Controls management is the way in which a company approaches their day-to-day business activities and protocols in order to reduce organizational risk, increase business resilience, and meet organizational goals. In volatile times, it’s more important than ever to build a strong and effective controls management system for your business.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 10, 2023

The “G” in ESG involves governance, and has to do with how well an organization’s internal controls are functioning; a business’s ESG strategy; and how the company handles ESG risks. ESG disclosures have taken the spotlight in recent years as part of a trend of increased scrutiny around risk, compliance, and cybersecurity.

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