BENCHMARKING TOOL
Internal Audit Value Scorecards
This tool contains scorecards that provide various guidelines for managing and measuring the performance of an internal audit function.
MODEL
Business Continuity Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s business continuity management process and to assist its progress from the initial/ad-hoc state toward the optimized state.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Project Management Office (PMO) Questionnaire
The questions included in this tool can be used to evaluate your project management office (PMO) functionality and processes.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Chief Risk Officer Job Description
Organizations can use this sample job description as a starting point to fully define the responsibilities and qualifications for a chief risk officer role.
POLICIES
Collections Quality Assurance Policy
This sample policy is designed to help organizations standardize the collection process and identify additional training needs.
Virus Protection Policy
This tool contains four sample policies that define best-practice guidelines and procedures for protecting company computers from viruses and managing virus infestation.
IT Contingency Planning Policy
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that information system resources and business processes are protected against service interruptions by developing, implementing and testing a DR/BCM plan.
AUDIT PROGRAMS
Expenditure Cycle Audit Work Program
This document provides two sample audit work programs for reviewing the expenditure cycle, with one leveraging computer assisted auditing techniques (CAATs) in the audit process.
Capital Expenditure Audit Work Program
This tool includes two sample audit programs that provide steps organizations can take to conduct a capital expenditure audit.
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Human Resources (HR) Process and Compliance Audit Report
This sample human resources process and compliance internal audit report focuses on time reporting, payroll, recruiting, hiring and termination.
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Championing Digital Transformation
In this course, you’ll learn best practices for enabling and championing digital transformation in your organization. The completed course is worth 0.5 CPE credits and by the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
- Identify key contributions that champions make to help drive successful digital transformation
- Recognize the steps for establishing and supporting a digital transformation initiative in the organization
- Identify the key elements in a digital transformation road map
- Recognize the key metrics you should use to measure digital transformation progress in the organization
- Recognize best practices for overcoming common challenges to digital transformation initiatives
- Knowledge Check: Supporting Digital Transformation in your Organization
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Accounts Receivable
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Weekly Summary of Accounting, SEC and Auditing Developments
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- Government Entities – 2021-2022 Edition of Knowledge-Based Audits of Government Entities Published
- Audits of Single Financial Statements – New Edition of GAAS Update Published
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These were the most popular items on KnowledgeLeader last week:
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