What makes Audit Reporting so Difficult? Making sense of your organisation's data can be challenging. It's even more daunting when you need to...
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How to Improve the Audit Committee and Internal Audit Relationship
The audit committee and internal audit relationship has become a hot topic at leadership conferences, and with regulations growing daily, it's easy...
Achieving Operational Efficiency with Internal Audit: A Helpful Guide
How To Achieve Efficiency with Internal Audit? In today's business world, many companies encounter a variety of compliance challenges that can be...
Insights on Embracing Technology for Audit
Technology for audit: what does this mean in today’s age? In a conference held by Diligent with over 600 GRC professionals and leaders of worldwide...
Audit Infrastructure: How to Get Ahead of Internal Audit’s Expanding Scope
How to Boost Your Audit Infrastructure in 5 Proven Steps Audit teams are facing mounting challenges and mismatched expectations. On the one hand,...
Four powerful benefits of AI for compliance, audit, and risk
Keeping up with regulations, risks, and mountains of data is no easy task for audit, risk, and compliance teams. Spreadsheets and old-school tools...
What is the Role of Audit in ESG?
Over the past several years, there has been growing pressure on companies to demonstrate not only their progress on environmental, social, and...
Healthcare Data Made Simple: UnitingCare Case Study
The UnitingCare risk and assurance team uses the Diligent platform to connect to and uncover insights into massive healthcare data. One of...
How to Modernise Your Internal Audit Infrastructure: A Checklist
A checklist for optimising efficiency and impact in internal audit. Running an internal audit department today isn’t easy. Regulations and business...
How to Save $2 Million with Diligent Audit: A Case Study
Your audit team is under increasing pressure to accomplish more with less. So how do you stay ahead of evolving responsibilities — without having to...
Diligent Named a Leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance Software in Q4 2023 Report by Independent Research Firm
Diligent received top possible scores in 14 criteria including audit management, regulatory change management and user experience New York, December...
The Best GRC Platform: The Forrester Wave Exclusive Report
Nearly every organisation is under pressure to enhance their GRC reporting capabilities and find the best GRC platform. But the challenge of...
Audit Technology Security: A Checklist For Protecting Your Organisation
Whether you are a small, medium or large organisation, a breach due to poor audit technology security can be catastrophic. The right audit software...
How To Elevate Audit With Strategic Technology: Navigating Transformation
As the third line of defence, offer unique insights on intangibles like ESG, DEI, human capital, and cyber resiliency. Utilising a new way to audit...
Hear How ABSA Is Creating the Audit Function Of the Future
Internal audit teams across the globe are looking to reinvent themselves to better serve current and future risks. But how do they effectively plan...
Continuous Monitoring: Guaranteed Efficiency Using an “Always On” Approach
Internal audit teams must evolve, adopting agility and broadening their scope to serve as trusted advisors and demonstrate business value....
Using Robotics To Do More With Less: A CAE’s Helpful Guide
If it feels like your audit team, led by the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) using robotics, is "drinking from a firehose," you're not alone. Demands on...
“Hiring” a Robot: 4 Tips for Data Analytics Automation in Internal Audit
For internal audit teams, data analytics automation for internal audit is a touted superpower speeding up calculations, improving accuracy, and...
Audit Analytics Tool: 6 Important Considerations Before Buying
As more and more organisations rely on data to make strategic decisions, an audit analytics tool has become essential for internal and external...
Internal Audit Software: 7 Methods For Successful Integration
In the early 2000s, internal audit teams primarily conducted cyclical audits, often disconnected from organisational objectives. Today, with a focus...
The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide to Audit Management Software
Why the need for a guide to audit management software? The answer is simple: for today’s internal audit teams, the audits themselves are only one...
5 Steps For Introducing Audit Software Into Your Organisation
In addition to performing traditional cyclical audits, today’s internal audit teams are advisors to every aspect of their organisation’s operations....
How To Use Data Analytics To Improve Your Internal Audit Function
More and more auditors are using data analytics in audit to improve their internal audit programs and processes as well as deliver a more...
What Do Boards Want From Audit? 6 Powerful Ways Auditors Can Guide Business Strategy
Considering the “third line of defence,” it’s the job of the audit team to remain independent from the rest of the organisation while they...
Sprinting Ahead With Agile Auditing: How to Keep Pace
Audit teams are now continuously striving to do everything quicker and more efficiently, usually without enough resources. In fact, 27% of CAEs cite...
Internal Controls Testing: Can Automation Help Accomplish Your Goals?
Your internal controls provide the confidence you need that your processes will ensure compliance with regulations, legislation and best practices....
Continuous Audit: A Powerful Approach for Controls and Risk
Continuous audit is emerging as an effective strategy for managing and minimising organisational risk. A few years ago, the Journal of...
Audit Planning: Why Is It Important and What Are the Best Practices for Success In South Africa?
Audit planning stands as the crucial inaugural step in the audit process, forming the bedrock of a successful audit. Effective planning ensures a...
Audit Efficiency: 3 Advantages in Delegating Control Assessments
Amidst escalating responsibilities in governance, risk management, and compliance, internal auditors aim to enhance their value by delivering...
How to Get Ready for the Boardroom: A Chief Audit Executive’s Checklist
As financial and compliance activities increasingly demand oversight from audit committees, a comprehensive Chief Audit Executive checklist is...
8 Features Of the Best Audit Management Software
In recent years, the audit community embraced electronic working papers for collaboration, but this led to the challenge of dark data. To address...
Future-Proofing Internal Audit: A Helpful Guide for Audit Teams
Discover how internal audit can evolve from compliance-focused roles to strategic advisors, leveraging AI, machine learning, RPA, and data analytics...
Using Tech-Aware Audit Function To Ensure Compliance and Accuracy
How do companies build a more agile, tech-aware audit function? What new audit technologies are necessary? How will these technologies change audit...
5 Best Practices For Auditors: Enhancing Collaboration and Strategic Value
Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), internal auditors play a crucial role, ensuring effective risk management, governance, and internal control...
7 Strategies For Effective Government Internal Audit Management
Internal audit is critical for monitoring government departments’ governance, risk management, and compliance processes. It helps keep all public entities on the right path and is key to delivering the “checks and balances” and monitoring the organisation to avoid emerging risks.
5 Secrets to Meet the Needs of the Audit Committee
Discover how CAEs can navigate the evolving corporate landscape, address ESG concerns, and become trusted advisers to audit committees.
The Benefits Of RPA For Auditing and Financial Control: A New Era Of Efficiency and Accuracy
The buzz surrounding robotics and robotic process automation (RPA) is hard to ignore in finance and accounting. EY has highlighted that adopting RPA...
6 Challenges Of Bringing Analytics Into Audit and How To Overcome Them
As auditors take on an increasingly expanded role as strategic advisors, powerful tools like data analytics can help them stay ahead of evolving...
The Right Time Is Now To Transition To Agile Auditing
We often hear the word “agile” from aligning remote and dispersed teams to managing cyber security risk. Internal audit work, under increased...
The Success of the Diligent Audit Analytic Capability Model
Find out how to get from basic data analysis to continuous monitoring with the Diligent Audit Analytic Capability Model. To provide executives with...
How to Foster Strategic Internal Audit Leadership: 4 Executive Approaches
Strategic internal audit leadership and change is the new status quo. With rapid shifts on all fronts, organisations need accurate data to make the...
4 Ways Risk Management & Compliance Can Get a Seat At the Table
Regarding risk management and compliance, most organisations operate on a 3 Lines of Defense (3LOD) model, in which operational management,...
How CAEs Can Transform Into Innovative Audit Leaders
Chief Audit Executives need to create a dynamic, technology-forward audit function to help attract and retain talent, provide a top-down culture of...
7 Reasons to Transform Audits for Maximum Efficiency
Auditing practices are constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of businesses and their customers. Modernising audit processes is...