Risk and Control: Ideas for a better tomorrow
A contrarian view on Risk and Control to make tinkle curiosity leading to creative and critical thinking.
Recently I had the honor of moderating a session on “Internal Audit: The first line of defense”. The panel consisted of: A head of internal audit/ CRO A CRO A risk professional and A Risk advisory partner from a big 4. Some of the insights from the session are: Internal Audit is the Third line […]
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IIA has revised standards on internal auditing. The revised standards become effective from January 2017. One of the new year resolution of Internal auditor should be to update their internal audit practices and procedures, including internal audit charter to reflect the changes done in in the IPPF. See here 1130.A3 – The internal audit activity may […]
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IIA Inc has revised standards on internal auditing. The revised standards become effective from January 2017. One of the new year resolution of Internal auditor should be to update their internal audit practices and procedures, including internal audit charter to reflect the changes done in in the IPPF. Revised IPPF can be downloaded from IIA. One […]
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Companies are required to create internal control framework to ensure that things are working. Company while creating internal control framework want to have number of control as less as possible to ensure that they don’t get red flagged in reviews. Auditors are required to certify that internal controls are working. Auditors while reviewing controls want to have […]
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Note: This is an extract from another article to focus on eCommerce Companies. Indian companies act 2013 has mandated that CEO and CFO to certify that “internal financial Controls are adequate and operating effectively”. This is also required to be confirmed by external auditors. In my opinion this is what companies / auditors should do: […]
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Background: I got the opportunity to attend a meeting organised by ISACA and ICAI. The meeting was for launching “Guidance note on Corporate Governance, ERM and Assurance for COBIT 5”. Indian companies act 2013 has mandated that CEO and CFO to certify that “internal financial Controls are adequate and operating effectively”. This is also required to be confirmed […]
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I had an interesting debate recently with another CAE over recommendation. In his organization, they do not give recommendations in Internal Audit Report. I was insisting on giving recommendation as it is suggested by IPPF. He had challenged me to provide IPPF reference specifying that in an assurance assignment recommendation has to be given. I […]
Continue ReadingThis is a work of fiction. If you find any similarities with a real life situation or a person then you should ignore real life situation/ person. As author of this work has limited the scope of this work to fiction. A fictional dialogue between Management and Internal Audit. Management: I need you to look […]
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