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What Is a Risk Assessment Matrix? And Why Is It Important?

Audit Board

MAY 15, 2023

In today’s modern threat landscape, compliance risk, cybersecurity risk, fraud risk, and even climate change risk can have a significant impact on your company’s reputation and bottom line. While you’ll never be able to eliminate business risk entirely, prevention is the best insurance against loss.

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M&A Due Diligence: Navigating the Path to a Successful Merger

Sun Acquisitions

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of M&A due diligence , shedding light on the best practices for conducting a comprehensive evaluation of potential targets. The primary goal is to uncover hidden risks, identify growth opportunities, and ensure that the merger aligns with the acquiring company’s objectives.

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IT Risk Assessment Fundamentals and Best Practices

Audit Board

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

IT risk assessments can be a great way to gain insight into your organization’s IT environment, risks, and controls. Not only do IT risk assessments provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s security risk posture, but they also offer insights into the identification and prioritization of evolving threats.

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Risk Management 101: Process, Examples, Strategies

Audit Board

AUGUST 16, 2023

Effective risk management takes a proactive and preventative stance to risk, aiming to identify and then determine the appropriate response to the business and facilitate better decision-making. This article will walk you through the fundamentals of risk management and offer some thoughts on how you can apply it to your organization.

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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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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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Five Major Auditing Challenges in Cloud Computing and How to Overcome Them

Audit Board

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This article originally appeared on the ISACA Blog. So, with an understanding of how the cloud differs from traditional IT and an appreciation of the threat landscape, what are the top auditing challenges facing organizations? What type of information do users access, store, and transmit in the cloud?

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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Fundamentals

Audit Board

AUGUST 8, 2023

Enterprise risk management is a methodology of risk management, taking a top-down approach to the risk management process, and taking into account the organization and senior management’s business objectives and strategic objectives. The practice of risk management has a long history, with origins dating back to the 1920s.

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Optimizing Testing and Evidence Collection With Technology

Audit Board

JUNE 2, 2023

AuditBoard’s InfoSec Survival Guide: Achieving Continuous Compliance , explores what compliance professionals should consider when approaching automation. A clearly organized controls inventory should provide traceability to your frameworks, requirements, and assets, allowing you to scope your assessments with ease.

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A Comprehensive Look at the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Audit Board

JUNE 15, 2023

In the field of cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance, there are a collection of acronyms that you’ll hear often enough. Each of these organizations plays a role in the shifting tectonics of security, compliance, and risk. This article will discuss NIST in detail, focusing on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework , or NIST CSF.

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What Does Your Approach to M&A Integration Strategy Look Like?

M&A Leadership Council

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Noted in a recent blog article and based on extensive M&A Leadership Council research with approximately 150 skilled acquirers, this one integration best practice is proven to be the #1 correlated best practice with MANY essential business result outcomes. What is an Integration Strategy Framework? Our answer?

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What Does Your Approach to M&A Integration Strategy Look Like?

M&A Leadership Council

JUNE 8, 2023

Noted in a recent blog article and based on extensive M&A Leadership Council research with approximately 150 skilled acquirers, this one integration best practice is proven to be the #1 correlated best practice with MANY essential business result outcomes. What is an Integration Strategy Framework ? Our answer?

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What Does Your Approach to M&A Integration Strategy Look Like?

M&A Leadership Council

JANUARY 3, 2022

Noted in a recent blog article and based on extensive M&A Leadership Council research with approximately 150 skilled acquirers, this one integration best practice is proven to be the #1 correlated best practice with MANY essential business result outcomes. What is an Integration Strategy Framework ? Our answer?

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Top accounting issues in 2023

ThomsonReuters

APRIL 18, 2023

What are the current issues in accounting? The accounting profession has faced a profound shift in recent years: from significant regulatory changes to an influx of innovative technologies, to reimagined business models, to an increase in client expectations. but there are several common hurdles that often run industry wide.

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Value Creation: Risk Management

Value Scout

APRIL 10, 2023

Recall from a prior blog post, Earnings, Growth, and Risk , the three fundamental pillars of valuation. The focus of this article will be a risk, and in particular, risk mitigation. Risks can be internal or external. Risks can be internal or external.

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SOC 2 Framework Guide: The Complete Introduction

Audit Board

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Definitions, resources, and examples for the key steps in the SOC 2 process : scoping and framework application, framework execution, internal and external assessments against the framework, and maintaining ongoing compliance. . What Is the SOC 2 Framework? SOC 2 Framework at a Glance. Uses industry best-practices to define criteria.

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Use of Discounted Cash Flow Approaches in US GAAP Accounting

ThomsonReuters

MAY 6, 2021

Discounted cash flow approaches are a helpful tool used in US GAAP accounting for valuation and impairment assessments. A discounted cash flow approach involves projecting a stream of cash flows for an item and then applying a discount rate to those cash flows to calculate a single value or a range of values for that item. Discount Rate.

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Affiliate Website Valuation: What’s Your Affiliate Site Worth?

FE International

JUNE 28, 2021

series, in which we provide you with information on what makes your particular business model unique when it comes to valuation. Blogs and content websites are popular among online business owners, and for good reason. This article is part of our? Valuation by Business Model ?series, To get a valuation from our expert team,?

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