The great majority of chief audit executives acknowledge that the internal audit function at their organization needs to be improved, according to a new survey. The survey, by Ernst & Young, polled ...

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The Accounting Review, Vol. 86, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2011), pp. 2131-2154 (24 pages) This study examines how using the internal audit function (IAF) as a management training ground (MTG) affects external ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. This article is more than 3 years old. The internal audit (IA) ...

CAL FED’S INTERNAL AUDITORS MONITOR THE COMPANY’S risk profile and play a key role in identifying areas for risk management. Understanding the business operations can make the auditors a catalyst for ...

No matter what internal audit gets called to do, there will always be a cadre of misguided executives and board members who think internal audit is just an extension of the finance function.

The Case Western Reserve’s Board of Trustees and management place assets at risk to achieve established priorities and goals. A key function of the Office of Internal Audit Services is to understand, ...

Internal auditors love fraud: detecting it and investigating it. The majority of boards and top management expect internal auditors to dedicate a fair portion of their time to auditing for fraud and ...

Eighty per cent of organisations acknowledge that their internal audit function has room for improvement, an Ernst & Young report has found. With risk, control and compliance becoming increasingly ...

The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a proposed rule 1 requiring listed companies to establish and maintain an internal audit function.

MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is set to require trust entities to regularly conduct an internal audit to assess their respective operational management, risk management, ...