The President of the IIA shares what he sees as the top seven attributes of an effective internal auditor, and in general I agree, with a few distinc­tions. The most important attribute is referred to as business acumen, but the description that accom­panies it has more to do with having an in-depth knowledge of the […]

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At the end of September the IIA and ISACA announced they had reached an agreement to “create a basis for cooper­ation and collab­o­ration” between the organi­za­tions. The agreement is formalized in a Memo of Under­standing that has been signed by both parties. The MoU lists a few areas where this agreement makes cooper­ation possible: Speaking […]

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Got an email last week about an update to the Decisions Matter ad campaign the CICA has been running for the desig­nation: The Decisions Matter ad campaign is aimed at shifting the tradi­tional perception of the CA desig­nation and promoting CAs as business leaders and key decision-makers in every organi­zation. The campaign is very different […]

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Earlier this week I watched a webinar put on by the Audit Director Round­table, a great resource for internal auditors, titled Enter­prise Risk Audit Planning. If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen this: @neilmcintyre: IT problems for Audit Director Round­table delay the start of the Enter­prise Risk Audit Planning webinar The problem was […]

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That’s the recom­men­dation from the Institute of Chartered Accoun­tants of India (ICAI), as reported by The India Express: “In the high-powered committee report on Satyam scam, we have proposed that internal audit should be outsourced and not be in house so that there is more indepen­dence. If the auditor is from the organ­i­sation, it is […]

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