The widespread use of information technology (IT) can introduce various risks that affect financial reporting and the audit process. To assist auditors in identifying and addressing these risks, the ...

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission released a new paper Wednesday on uniting COSO’s enterprise risk management framework with “agile” practices in internal auditing ...

The AICPA Auditing Standards Board’s (ASB’s) plans to finalize a new risk assessment standard at its August meeting should be welcome news for many practitioners. Risk assessment is a fundamental ...

The annual risk assessment is a is a collaborative undertaking by UW Internal Audit and UW Risk Management and serves as an important piece of the Enterprise Risk Management framework. It provides ...

Cyber incidents, such as IT outages, data breaches or ransomware attacks, are considered the greatest risk facing organizations globally in 2023, according to the European Confederation of Institutes ...

Join experts from KPMG, Cisco, and Workiva as they explore how audit, accounting, and finance professionals can leverage a technology mix of data analytics, gen AI, and other tools to ramp up ...

The annual audit plan is typically out-of-date even before it is approved by the audit committee. It’s quite a few years since I first started talking about “auditing at the speed of risk” (since at ...

What do skydiving, investing in the stock market, and telling someone you love them for the first time have in common? They all involve risk. It’s easy to think of high-stakes scenarios like these ...

Can you assess risk management without considering related internal controls? I don’t think so. The relationship between risk (what might happen to affect the achievement of objectives) and internal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. This article is more than 3 years old. The internal audit (IA) ...