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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Second Line of Defense: What Needs to Be Present
What is the Second Line of Defense?Essential to effective risk management, the lines-of-defense model is implicit in COSO’s internal control framework through the...
Audit Committee Reporting: Important Practices and Examples You Need to Know
Chief audit executives may be comfortable that their approach to audit committee reporting has followed the same unwavering path for the past decade. But are they...
Customer Service: Business Risks You Need to Know
The focus on customer relationship management (CRM), also known as customer care or customer service, has been growing steadily for the last few years. Companies ...
