Inventory and Materials Management Best Practices
Defining InventoryWhen one thinks of inventory, the physical items in storage or warehouse facilities may come to mind. Yet the term is much broader. Inventory co...
Enterprise Resilience — the Delicate Balance of Growth and Risk
Risk at the Speed of LightThere has never been a time when succeeding in business didn’t involve facing monumental challenges and taking great risks. It’s silly t...
How to Produce a High-Quality Audit Report
Responsible companies need to maintain the critical attributes of accountability, consistency and transparency to uphold the confidence of investors, regulators, ...
Building a Robust Disaster Recovery Policy
Disaster recovery is the process of rapidly recovering business operations in the event of a business interruption. The disaster recovery team of an organization ...
Mastering the Credit and Collections Process
Credit and Collections DefinedWhen defining credit and collections, it's best to begin with an understanding of accounts receivables, which is money owed to an en...
How Quality IT Audit Controls Can Protect Your IT Investments
A Substantial InvestmentThe modern business enterprise can’t exist without the benefit of up-to-date information technology (IT), at least not as a competitive co...
Making the Most of Your Internal Audit Practice
IntroductionIf you are reading this article, you are likely in the internal audit (IA) profession or looking to refine your internal audit practice. Or perhaps yo...
How IT Controls Enhance the Value of IT Assets
It is impossible to overstate the value of information technology (IT) to the world of businesses and industries today. IT facilitates and enhances communication ...
The Benefits of Agile Auditing
Agile DefinedAgile is a methodology that focuses on maintaining flexibility and staying in touch with clients. It recognizes that the linear approach taken in tra...
Entity-Level Controls: The Importance of Setting the Tone
An effective organization of consequence, whether public or private, attempts to strike a balance between its mission (usually but not always profit) and its resp...
