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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, ...
Compliance: How to Position for Ultimate Effectiveness
Positioning Compliance for EffectivenessPositioning the compliance function for effectiveness is a matter of first defining the roles executive management and the...
What Are the Benefits and Risks Associated With Data Integrity?
Data integrity is the assurance that information can only be accessed or modified by those authorized to access the system. Measures taken to ensure integrity inc...
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...
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...
Electronic Discovery Risks, Challenges and Procedures
Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) refers to the process of searching, locating and securing electronic data for the purpose of using it as evidence in a legal cas...
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...
What You Need to Know About Robotic Process Automation
Are You Familiar With Robotic Process Automation?Robotic process automation (RPA) has been gaining traction as an efficient way to automate labor-intensive and re...
Developing Budgets: What You Need to Know
In a previous blog on Managing Mergers and Acquisitions KPIs, we discussed what exactly key performance indicators are:“KPIs are generally defined as quantifiable...
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...
