Audit & Analytics

The audit committee and internal audit relationship has become a hot topic at leadership conferences, and with regulations growing daily, it's easy...

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...

Diligent received top possible scores in 14 criteria including audit management, regulatory change management and user experience New York, December...

Internal audit teams must evolve, adopting agility and broadening their scope to serve as trusted advisors and demonstrate business value....

For internal audit teams, data analytics automation for internal audit is a touted superpower speeding up calculations, improving accuracy, and...

As more and more organisations rely on data to make strategic decisions, an audit analytics tool has become essential for internal and external...

In the early 2000s, internal audit teams primarily conducted cyclical audits, often disconnected from organisational objectives. Today, with a focus...

More and more auditors are using data analytics in audit to improve their internal audit programs and processes as well as deliver a more...

Your internal controls provide the confidence you need that your processes will ensure compliance with regulations, legislation and best practices....

Continuous audit is emerging as an effective strategy for managing and minimising organisational risk. A few years ago, the Journal of...

Audit planning stands as the crucial inaugural step in the audit process, forming the bedrock of a successful audit. Effective planning ensures a...

Amidst escalating responsibilities in governance, risk management, and compliance, internal auditors aim to enhance their value by delivering...

In recent years, the audit community embraced electronic working papers for collaboration, but this led to the challenge of dark data. To address...

How do companies build a more agile, tech-aware audit function? What new audit technologies are necessary? How will these technologies change audit...

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), internal auditors play a crucial role, ensuring effective risk management, governance, and internal control...

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.

Discover how CAEs can navigate the evolving corporate landscape, address ESG concerns, and become trusted advisers to audit committees.

The buzz surrounding robotics and robotic process automation (RPA) is hard to ignore in finance and accounting. EY has highlighted that adopting RPA...

We often hear the word “agile” from aligning remote and dispersed teams to managing cyber security risk. Internal audit work, under increased...

Strategic internal audit leadership and change is the new status quo. With rapid shifts on all fronts, organisations need accurate data to make the...

Auditing practices are constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of businesses and their customers. Modernising audit processes is...