Internal Audit Reminder: Opportunity to Comment on the New Professional Standards Ends April 30
Thanks, again, to everyone who tuned in to the live stream of our What’s on the Internal Audit Horizon webinar on March 31. For those of you who missed it, we had a packed agenda covering a wide variety of topics. I’ll hit the highlights, but you’re going to need to watch the archived version […]
Top Risks 2016 Webinar Follow-Up: Jim DeLoach on Changes in Risk, Technology and Culture Challenges
A few weeks ago, Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Initiative published Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2016, the results of an annual survey. Regulatory changes topped the list of executives’ and directors’ concerns for the fourth consecutive year, followed by economic concerns and worries about cyber threats. Operational risks […]
Ten Cybersecurity Action Items for CAEs and Internal Audit Departments
Since the release of our 2016 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey last month, I’ve been going back and looking at the results, which also include some insightful 10-year trends. We will get back to these in another post; instead, I prefer to focus here on one aspect of the results – the growing need […]
Guide to Public Company Transformation Answers What You Always Wanted to Know About the IPO and Beyond
If you’re preparing to take your company public, you surely know you have a lot of new reporting and legal requirements to meet, and that your organization will require a number of changes. You may also know that you will need help in this process, or at least some good guidance. The latest edition of […]
The Company You Keep: A Case for Supplier Codes of Conduct
Las Vegas tourism promoters used to promise, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” It’s much harder to make such a claim these days, when even the most benign shenanigans are only a smartphone video away from global critique. Corporations are being held accountable, as well – not only by regulators, but by citizen journalists, […]
IT Audit Benchmarking Webinar: David Brand and Robert Kress Answer Your Questions
It has been a few months since the release of Protiviti’s 5th Annual IT Audit Benchmarking Survey (conducted jointly with ISACA) – documenting the top tech challenges of executives and IT professionals around the world. We covered the highlights in a webinar and a blog post back in December. We’ve said a lot on the topic, online […]
