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Internal Audit

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Risk Advisory

Internal Audit

Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.

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Performed by professionals with an in-depth understanding of the business culture, systems, and processes, the internal audit activity provides assurance that internal controls in place are adequate to mitigate the risks, governance processes are effective and efficient, and organizational goals and objectives are met.

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Evaluating emerging technologies. Analyzing opportunities. Examining global issues. Assessing risks, controls, ethics, quality, economy, and efficiency. Assuring that controls in place are adequate to mitigate the risks. Communicating information and opinions with clarity and accuracy. Such diversity gives internal auditors a broad perspective on the organization. And that, in turn, makes internal auditors a valuable resource to executive management and boards of directors in accomplishing overall goals and objectives, as well as in strengthening internal controls and organizational governance.

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Depending on the scope and requirement of the management of a company that shall be agreed upon by the Coreinfo Consultancy, there are several types of Internal Audits:

  1. Financial Audit

  2. Operational Audits

  3.  Compliance Audit

  4. IT Audit/ Information Systems Audit

  5. Integrated Audit

  6. Risk-based Audit and

  7. Performance Audit
     

Seems like a lot to ask from one resource. Maybe for some, but for our internal auditors — it’s all in a day’s work.​

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Refer to our blogs for more information on Internal Audits and how they are useful for companies to advance.

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Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)

A GRC audit is an examination of an organization’s governance, risk management, and compliance procedures. This can also be an internal audit used on an ongoing basis to refine and improve policies.

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While GRC hadn’t been officially acknowledged as a solution with a name, it was in implementation on every level across every business. Any policy, government law, regulation, company code of conduct, and business risk fits into the umbrella of a GRC framework even if it was never referred to as such.  As technologies and the size of the market grew, the need to have GRC as a tool has been required, in the wake of multiple disasters that rocked the foundation of the world as we knew it.

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Governance
Governance is the process through which executive management directs and manages a large enterprise at scale using a combination of hierarchy and policies. Corporate governance is designed to ensure that senior management has the necessary and most current information to effectively make decisions and inform company strategy.

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Risk Management

Risk Management is the process of quantifying, evaluating, and prioritizing potential assessed risks to an organization based on their entire operation as a whole. Proper risk management practices require that an organization uses coordinated and fiscally responsible choices to utilize resources in a way that controls, monitors, and mitigates risks that can have negative consequences for a business day to day.

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Compliance

Compliance programs are the rules of the market, government, or industry in which the organization operates. 

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While these individual applications may have been sufficient to run a business in the past, it simply leaves too many gaps to supplement the operations of an organization in today’s landscape.

 

We at Coreinfo support organizations in the implementation and review of the GRC framework.

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