Companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations use auditing practices to manage compliance with internal controls. For example, an auditor looks for inconsistencies in financial records.

Can you prove your team’s performance? How do you know for certain that nothing is being missed? The answer is simple; you perform an internal audit. We know how difficult it can be to keep track of ...

An internal audit helps a company ensure it has the proper controls, governance and risk management processes in place, according to the Institute of Internal Auditors. By nature, it's an independent ...

NYSE-LISTED COMPANIES MUST HAVE INTERNAL audit departments in place in advance of an October 31 deadline. Internal auditors also are evaluating the scope of work their departments should take on to ...

Internal auditing is an independent appraisal function that is performed in a wide variety of companies, institutions, and governments. What distinguishes internal auditors from governmental auditors ...

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) ...

Internal pressure is a pervasive threat to the objectivity inherent in internal audit, according to new research. More than half of North American chief audit executives (CAEs) said they had been ...