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

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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. 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.

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Audit Committee Toolkit: Maximizing Value From Internal Audit

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Audit committee members have oversight of internal audit, but time together is often limited to just four meetings each year. 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.

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Should you consider an automated indirect tax system? 9 key questions to ask

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Every company’s tax technology journey is different, and it’s not always clear when and how tax automation should be incorporated or what the benefits will be. Agility, flexibility, and efficiency are qualities that most companies want, but aging systems and antiquated processes are often holding them back.

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Navigating the maze of audit compliance

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In today’s rapidly changing business environment, firms need to stay on top of their audit compliance. In this blog post, we’ll provide some tips on how to ensure your firm is audit compliant and up to date with the latest industry changes. How do you ensure audit compliance? compatible.

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Moving Internal Audits from Mundane to What Matters

Internal Audit 360

I t’s easy for internal audit to get stuck in a rut. We approach the year with plans to revise last year’s internal audit plan, but in the end, we don’t change that much. We move to the comfort zone and put the audits we know how to do and the ones that seem important on the audit plan.

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Five Project Management Best Practices for More Effective Audits

Audit Board

Is your audit team being held back by a fundamental disconnect in how you’re approaching projects? Every audit is a project and successful projects require management, but internal audit managers are rarely trained in the principles of project management. How Can Internal Audit Benefit from Project Management Best Practices?

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Planning for Uncertainty: The Rise of the Flexible Audit Plan

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Would it surprise you that the IPPF does not require an annual audit plan? There are another 25 mentions in Implementation Guidance, but only two about audit plans that “typically are prepared annually” — but may also be multi-year — and “may be assessed annually.”. Letting go of this mistaken memory, what else should follow?