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Six Best Practices When Preparing for Third-Party Audits

Audit Board

Depending on your business’s size, industry, and compliance needs, it will be subject to third-party audits. Businesses will typically choose to undergo a third-party audit with the goal of achieving or maintaining a security certification, such as SOC 2 (I and II), ISO, or PCI DSS.

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IPE and SOX Readiness Considerations: Building a Consistent Process

Audit Board

With the renewed focus on IPE, internal audit leaders Mukesh Arora and Lin Wang share examples and learnings about system considerations for IPE, their experiences in IPE testing, and the practice of building a consistent IPE process, including: What is IPE — and how to identify different types of IPE. What Is IPE? What is IPE?

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Conducting Cybersecurity Risk Assessments Guide: The Complete Introduction

Audit Board

This Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Guide provides specific guidance on how organizations may choose to build a cybersecurity risk management program that will ensure compliance with commonly-used cybersecurity frameworks. However, specific guidance on how to conduct these assessments is typically not included in framework requirements.

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Don’t despair: The Superfund Excise Tax is perfect for automation

ThomsonReuters

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sections 4661 and 4671 currently list 42 chemicals and 151 “hazardous substances” as taxable. And to do all of this, more personnel may even be required. What is the Superfund Excise Tax? Automation and the Superfund Excise Tax.

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SEC Chair Gensler Speaks on Enforcement

Reynolds Holding

On May 27, 1933, when he signed the first of the federal securities laws, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: “This law and its effective administration are steps in a program to restore some old-fashioned standards of rectitude.” [1]. Vale told the public that their dams were safe, all while they allegedly manipulated safety audits.

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Debunking the Myths: The Complementary but Distinct Practices of Internal and External Audit

Audit Board

In some respects, this is similar to how the role of internal audit can get misconstrued. And in fairness, internal auditors sometimes look like, walk like, and talk like “the [external] auditors.” And in fairness, internal auditors sometimes look like, walk like, and talk like “the [external] auditors.”

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Preparing for the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Proposed Rules: Key Steps and Questions

Audit Board

These steps are intended to help you evaluate whether your organization has the means to comply today, and where you may need to proactively build out capabilities. Before the proposed rules are adopted for compliance, your organization needs an internal definition of materiality. Identify and Document the Incident.