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Settlement Risk: Using Key Performance Indicators to Mitigate Exposure
Settlement risk, in its simplest form, is the risk that one party won’t hold up their end in a transaction. There are several reasons this can occur, includi...
Important Factors of Data Analytics You Need to Know
Auditors can use data analytics to avoid the massive waste spending that often goes hand-in-hand with hiring outside vendors and contractors. This technique doesn...
Guide to the State of Data Analytics
What is Data Analytics?Data analytics is the practice of embedding insight into operations to drive business strategy and performance.What Does this Mean?With the...
How To Minimize Customer Fraud Risk
Fraud is the intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right. In the business community, ...
How Important is Due Diligence to the M&A Process?
There are several key phases of the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process:Growth/Portfolio strategyDue diligenceIntegration planningIntegration executionProj...
How Does Opportunity Risk Apply to Financial Business Processes?
Opportunity risk occurs whenever there’s a possibility that a better opportunity may become available after having committed to an irreversible decision.We all ex...
Is Your Financial Close and Reporting Process Too Manual?
Most organizations continue to invest a significant number of hours every month in a particular set of activities related to calculating, manipulating and validating critical financial reporting data us...
Self-Assessment: Launching Here and Soaring Beyond
First Step: Use Self-Assessment Within the Internal Audit DepartmentThe first and simplest way to use the self-assessment process is to use it in determining your...
How to Keep Your Organization’s Policies Up to Date
Defined policies and procedures play an integral role in efficient and effective company operations. They are also key to the company’s internal control environme...
How to Conduct an Up-to-Date Information Security Audit
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