Successful Audit Planning Is a Critical First Step in the Audit Process
While it’s true that no internal audit will ever go exactly according to plan, it is also true that audit planning is a necessary and important part of the overal...
Building and Maintaining a Robust Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Platform
The many ongoing risks that businesses face daily extend well beyond organizational risk and market risk to include a much longer set of risks that can be derived...
Human Resources Best Practices: Tools to Help Meet the Challenge
The ChallengeHuman resources (HR) professionals have a real and ongoing responsibility to the employees of the companies they serve. To the utmost extent possible...
Must-Have Tools for Accounts Receivable Risk Management
Getting to the Core of Accounts ReceivableAccounts receivable (AR) refers to the proceeds or payments that a company will receive from its customers who have purc...
Five Keys to Managing Relations With the Board of Directors
For directors to make meaningful contributions in their oversight of management, they need to understand the business environment within which the company operate...
Five Components of the COSO Framework You Need to Know
WHAT DOES COSO STAND FOR?In 1992, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) developed a COSO Framework for evaluating ...
What Is Internal Audit’s Role in Cybersecurity?
Corporations are always thinking about how to protect assets. A few of the white-collar crimes companies must consider include hacking/intrusions (cyber vuln...
Six Successful Warehouse and Storage Strategies You Need to Know
There are two main goals that companies with leading practices strive to achieve in the warehousing process: to provide value-added services such as product custo...
Segregation of Duties: Key Facts You Need to Know
Segregation of duties (SoDs) is an important concept to internal control frameworks, financial reporting and regulatory compliance, including the Sarbanes-Oxley A...
What Is Internal Auditing?
What Is Internal Auditing?About Internal AuditThe internal audit profession, through The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), has continued to redefine itself as...
