Internal Audit Leadership

Elevating the Internal Audit Function to Accelerate Value

Patricia Kaim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000956610
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Auditing
• Index: Business

With an emphasis on value creation and leadership, this book will help organizations around the globe to build stronger internal audit functions, highlighting the latest risks including COVID-19 and the most cutting-edge tools to assess them.

As environmental risks grow in number and complexity, and organizational resources become more constrained, the need to maximize both efficiency and effectiveness in internal auditing (IA) has never been greater. International IA expert Patricia Kaim leverages nearly 30 years' experience to offer real-world solutions to a range of IA issues, including how to:

• audit key major areas, such as organizational culture, diversity and inclusion, fraud, blockchain, and cyber risk
• design first-class continuous monitoring
• improve stakeholder management and add value to a range of auditing activities
• increase audit speed without compromising on quality
• develop high-performing IA teams with high agility, emotional intelligence, and morale

Auditors, audit executives, and quality assurance professionals in business and government will gain a new understanding of how to add value to their organizations, and a toolkit of best practices in IA design, management, analytics, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Effective Internal Audit Engagement
• 2 Understanding the Three Lines of Defence Model
• 3 How to Add Value to the Organization
• 4 Conducting Effective Audits: Opportunities for Enhancement
• 5 The Business Monitoring Approach: Taking a Value Approach
• 6 Risk Assessment Approach: Taking a Value Approach
• 7 Defining the Audit Plan: Taking a Value Approach
• 8 Audit Plan Capacity and Allocation of Resources
• 9 Issue Validation Activities: Taking a Value Approach
• 10 Audit Working Papers and Detailed Review
• 11 How to Manage the Stakeholder Relationship?
• 12 Tips for Planning a Smart Audit
• 13 Data Analytics Tools and Continuous Auditing
• 14 How to Complete Audits in 90 Days?
• 15 First-Class Internal Audit Team
• 16 Audit Team Training and Development
• 17 Tips to Manage and Motivate the Audit Team
• 18 How to Recognize a World-Class Internal Audit Function?
• 19 Top Internal Audit Risks and Hot Topics
• 20 Internal Audit Role in Fraud Assessments
• 21 Internal Audit Role in Auditing Culture
• 22 Internal Audit Role in Auditing Blockchain
• 23 Chief Audit Executive’s Role
• Bibliography
• Index