I have provided below clips from the Internal Audit Foundation 2022 Premier Global Research paper pertaining to how internal audit primarily functions and reports from an overview perspective. This is a time of opportunity for internal audit to provide help and value to boards and board committees including audit and governance committees, management, and internal operations. One key is to identify, educate and connect internal audit with the people and functions within the organization that could benefit from internal audit’s involvement, and to also identify the areas, issues, tasks, and problems in which internal audit can help. Typical areas, issues, tasks or problems include compliance, internal controls and monitoring, fraud, cybersecurity, governance, investigations, environmental, ESG, workplace, FCPA, legal and compliance issues, and any number of issues that might become known during the independent audit including the areas in which the outside independent auditor is required to communicate with the audit committee or those in charge of governance including, for example, about CAMs and the new NOCLAR requirements, and the list goes on. On March 1, 2023, new proposed internal audit professional standards will be circulated for a period of comment – I have not yet seen the proposed new standards; however, it is my understanding that the standards are being modernized and presented in a more unified, simplified manner.
Below are the clips from the Internal Audit Foundation 2022 Premier Global Research paper pertaining to how internal audit primarily functions and reports from an overview perspective – however, as we move through 2023 and thereafter I do expect that future surveys will show changes, increased utilization, and increasing opportunities.
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David Tate, Esq. (and inactive CPA)
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