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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Global Management Challenges for Internal Auditors

  Audit Marketing

  Dr. Hannes Schuh

  …139 Audit Marketing By Dr. Hannes Schuh89 The esteem in which a company holds its Internal Audit department can be in- creased by… …targeted marketing measures. It is worth considering audit marketing beyond the numerous, mainly process-oriented measures available in the literature and… …applying the logic of marketing. 1 Audit Marketing as a Part of General Marketing As part of the general marketing concept, which refers to the company as… …, the company’s own depart- ments91, audit marketing focuses on Internal Audit Unit’s exchange relationships in the overall organization. Accordingly… …, the key issue for audit marketing is: With which marketing tools can the acceptance and impact of Internal Audit Units be improved in the overall… …organization? On the one hand audit marketing focuses on the position of Internal Audit Unit in the company, while on the other it is also associated with… …marketing activities is not “The Internal Audit Unit is a (very) good department in the company”, but that “The Internal Audit Unit actively adds value to… …the company with high-quality measures!” The audit of the efficiency and to a certain extent the effectiveness of the company's marketing is also a… …part of the audit universe, but this will not be discussed further here. ___________________ 89 Dr. Hannes Schuh is an audit manager in an Austrian… …(Introduction to marketing), p. 3 Schuh 140 2 Examples of the Current Status of Audit Marketing According to the IIA Austria, audit marketing includes92…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Common Body of Knowledge in Internal Auditing

  Internal Audit Function

  European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing

  …37 3 Internal Audit Function In the third section of the questionnaire, all respondents were asked to indicate whether their existed an internal… …audit function in their organization and in case their existed one, the age of this function. Moreover, all respondents were asked to indicate whether a… …specific list of corporate governance and internal audit docu- ments existed in their organization. Finally, all respondents had to indicate their agreement… …with a list of statements related to their internal audit function. Besides, CAEs had to reply to questions regarding their appointment and performance… …eval- uation, their relationship with the audit committee (if there existed an audit com- mittee), how the added value of their internal audit function is… …measured and how the internal audit plan is developed and updated. 3.1. Existence of an Internal Audit Function The Internal Audit Function (IAF) has… …been set up in nearly all the respondents’ companies (overall average: 96%). Table 13: Existence of an Internal Audit Function (%) Country Total… …Spain 256 95.7 Sweden 67 97.0 Switzerland 33 100.0 Turkey 72 91.7 UK & Ireland 281 97.2 Overall Average 2,547 95.8 3 Internal Audit Function 38 When… …comparing all the 21 countries, we notice: • the highest presence of internal audit functions in Germany, Greece, Poland and Switzerland; • the lowest… …presence of internal audit function in Bulgaria, Norway and Turkey. According to Table 14 the largest numbers of respondents work for IAFs that have been in…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Common Body of Knowledge in Internal Auditing

  Internal Audit Activities

  European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing

  …91 6 Internal Audit Activities In the sixth section of the questionnaire, all respondents had to indicate the activi- ties performed by their… …internal audit function followed by the evolution in internal audit activities. Next, all respondents were asked to indicate when major differences around… …audit issues are resolved as well as who has primary responsibility for re- porting to senior management and monitoring corrective action. 6.1. Internal… …Audit Activities According to Table 45, the four most common internal audit activities are: • Operational audits (80%) • Internal control testing and… …external audit assistance in Austria, Estonia, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland; • a high percentage of health, safety and environment audits in Cyprus… …, Cyprus, Netherlands, Switzerland and UK & Ireland; 6 Internal Audit Activities 92 • a high percentage of investigations of fraud and irregularities in… …Internal Audit Activities 93 Ta bl e 45 : A ct iv iti es P er fo rm ed b y th e In te rn al A ud it Fu nc tio n (% ) C ou nt ry… …Requirements Control Framework Monitoring and Development Corporate Takeovers / Mergers Enterprise Risk Management Ethics Audits External Audit… ….3 40 .4 52 .4 62 .1 9. 5 38 .0 43 .1 40 .9 18 .9 57 .0 49 .8 6 Internal Audit Activities 94 C ou nt ry Information Technology… …Performance Management Effectiveness Audit Operational Audits Quality / ISO Audits Resource Management and Controls Security Issues Social and…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Interne Revision aktuell

  Das „Audit Universe“

  Wolfgang Günther

  …291 4 Die Interne Revision im Mittelstand 4.1 Das „Audit Universe“ Ein branchenübergreifendes Planungstool für die risikoorientierte Prüfungs-… …planung im Mittelstand 4.1.1 Vorwort Das Audit Universe als branchenübergreifendes Prüfungsplanungstool wurde von der Fachgruppe „Risikoorientierte… …verfolgt, dass ein bestehendes Bauchgefühl objektiviert wird. 4.1.4 Das „Audit Universe“ als Basis für die Zielerreichung Definition „Audit Universe“… …„Das Audit Universe ist ein branchenübergreifendes Prüfungsplanungstool, das potentiell zu prüfende Unternehmensprozesse und Prüfungsthemen vor-… …schlägt“. Das Audit Universe beinhaltet die verschiedensten Prozesse und Prüfungs- themen aus den unterschiedlichsten Unternehmen des Mittelstandes und… …dient als Grundidee einer möglichen Prüfungsplanung in dem jeweiligen Unternehmen. Ziele eines „Audit Universe“ Das Ziel des Audit Universe ist die… …analysiert werden. DIIR_Forum_7.indd 292 22.07.2008 10:42:17 Uhr 293 Das „Audit Universe“ Das Audit Universe ist nicht das alleinige Instrument der… …Prüfungsplanung. Zum einen sind selbstverständlich in Ergänzung zum Audit Universe Pflicht- prüfungen, Sonderprüfungen für die Unternehmensleitung und vieles mehr… …zu berücksichtigen. Zum anderen macht das Audit Universe lediglich Prü- fungsvorschläge, die bewertet werden, allerdings nicht zwingend in die Prü-… …fungsplanung einlaufen müssen. Vorteile des „Audit Universe“ Für das Audit Universe ist keine aufwendige Datenbanktechnologie erfor- derlich. Das Audit…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Common Body of Knowledge in Internal Auditing

  Internal Audit Staffing

  European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing

  …57 4 Internal Audit Staffing In the fourth section of the questionnaire, all respondents were asked to indicate the number of staff members working… …in their internal audit function (per hierarchical level) as well as their average number of training hours over the last 36 months. Be- sides, CAEs… …has to indicate which special incentives they use to hire internal audit professionals, the methods they use to make up for staff vacancies, how they… …com- pensate missing skill sets, the percentage of internal audit activities as well as the specific activities currently outsourced / co-sourced… …7.6 18.8 5.8 41.5 4 Internal Audit Staffing 58 Table 26 shows that the responding internal audit functions have, on average, 42 FTE. Staff members… …(juniors) represent the largest proportion, followed by con- tract audit staff (outsourcing or co-sourcing) and supervisors (seniors). When comparing the… …(13%); • Relocation expenses (10%); • Vehicle provided by organization (10%). Table 27: Special Incentives to Hire Internal Audit Professionals (%)… …of coverage (29%); • Co-sourcing from internal audit service providers (25%); • Borrowing staff from other departments (14%). Norway 12 25.0 8.3 8.3… …Audit Professionals (%) Country To ta l N um be r of R es po nd en ts R el oc at io n ex pe ns es Si gn in g bo nu s St oc… …O th er 4 Internal Audit Staffing 60 A comparison between all 21 European countries reveals (excluding those countries with the number of…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Global Management Challenges for Internal Auditors

  Internal Audit Standards: Everything for Everybody

  Inta Ozolina

  …15 Internal Audit Standards: Everything for Everybody? By Inta Ozolina, Internal auditor (ACCA, CIA) The applicability and scope of IAI… …to the same extent. Namely, whether smaller companies with smaller size internal audit teams should comply with the same scope of Standards and how… …they should do it. We all know that the Standards are extensive, cover most key areas of internal audit profession and work. Even more – the… …least once in five years. And this is where the smaller internal audit teams may face serious challenges or even struggle. There are companies… …where audit teams are significant in size, fully equipped with all the necessary specialists to cover all areas of company business; even more so – many… …bigger teams are divided in compliance and operational auditors. But there are even more companies where internal audit teams are very small in size. The… …the management and owners? I do not think so. Does it make the compliance for smaller audit teams very hard if not impossible to obtain? Yes, it does… …... Even more so, in many companies the management and owners do not appreciate and simply cannot afford huge internal audit teams; the financial crisis has… …also hit many companies all over the world. Also, in many cases of smaller companies and audit teams respectively, the review of overall control… …reduce the amounts of working papers to improve efficiency and effectiveness; often the IA managers (and CAE’s) get their hands dirty during audit…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch The Role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance in Europe

  State of the art Internal Audit

  European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA)

  …23 3 State of the art Internal Audit In this chapter we intend to summarise some important aspects of a “state of the art” Internal Audit… …practice. This is helpful to understand the propos- als we make in chapter 4. A properly organised and working Internal Audit Function can and must play an… …enhanced role in Corporate Governance as the survey showed that the current role of Internal Audit is still quite minor in comparison with other parties… …. The most important aspects centre around the organisation of the Internal Audit Function within companies as well as its relationship with other stake-… …regarded as a common denominator of Corporate Governance content (see chapter 2.1.1). 3.1 Position of Internal Audit in a Corporate Organisation Internal… …Audit’s place in a corporate organisation should ensure an extended degree of independence. Internal Audit should represent an institution with a detached… …perspective on business processes. This detached position quali- fies Internal Audit to provide reasonable and unbiased advice and assurance with regards to… …the board’s liability and responsibility has recently been emphasized by legislation it is advisable to have Internal Audit assigned and directly… …unrestricted access to information for Internal Audit can also be ensured. 3.1.1 Organisation of Internal Audit Function The decision as to what extent the… …Internal Audit Function should be organ- ised centrally or should adopt a federated structure is generally dependent on the nature of the corporate…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Global Management Challenges for Internal Auditors

  Contribution by Internal Audit to IT Compliance

  Thomas Lohre

  …61 Contribution by Internal Audit to IT Compliance By Thomas Lohre, MBA29 The constant increase in laws, ordinances, norms, standards… …objective of corporate compliance and in IT specifically, IT compliance. Internal audit can make a valuable contribution to this, as it can ob- jectively… …Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 34 See DCGK (2007). For the effects of the German Corporate Governance Code on the finan- cial statement audit… …Internal Audit to IT Compliance 63 suggestions. Nevertheless listed companies must comply with this code. With the “declaration of compliance”… …organisational, tech- nical and personnel measures. Internal audit should be regarded as part of the bun- dle of measures. 2 Elements and Regulations of IT… …implementation Does a correct licensing policy and licence management exist? Contribution by Internal Audit to IT Compliance 65 Four groups of legal… …description of the four success factors listed below. Contribution by Internal Audit to IT Compliance 67 With this, the preconditions are created for… …sector and to the area of IT. Contribution by Internal Audit to IT Compliance 69 usually led to legal consequences, however, it must also be… …and ensure creditworthiness. 5 Promotion of IT Compliance by Internal Audit When viewed in isolation, the fact that a company has an internal audit… …compliance.48 However in order to show that the internal audit department provides a valuable contribution to IT com- pliance, it will be discussed below, how…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Interne Revision aktuell

  Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN)

  Arno Boenner, Georg Herde

  …349 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) 5.3 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) 5.3.1… …der Konzern-Revision der Bayer AG das Projekt Standard Audit Analysis (STAAN) vorgestellt. Das Projekt soll die Konzern-Revision bei der globalen… …Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) Business Intelligence/Competive Intelligence „Unter Business Intelligence (BI) wird ein… …353 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN)  Keine Vorabaggregation der Daten über bestimmte Merkmalsausprägun- gen  100… …22.07.2008 10:42:26 Uhr 355 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) Bei guter Planung gibt es hier vielfältige Synergieeffekte… …Deutschen Institut für Interne Revision e.V. DIIR_Forum_7.indd 356 22.07.2008 10:42:26 Uhr 357 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit… …359 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) Unabhängigkeit von operativen Systemen Prüfer sollten möglichst unabhängig sein… …: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) Ein Hauptaugenmerk liegt aber auch klar in der Abgrenzung zwischen den informationstechnologischen Möglichkeiten und den… …der Analysesoftware Audit Command Language (ACL) zu programmieren, konnten die Problemfelder Massendaten-Download und die Erstellung einer… …22.07.2008 10:42:27 Uhr 363 Digitale Prüfungsunterstützung: STandard Audit ANalysis (STAAN) Abb. 1 Indikator „Anteil Manuelle Zahlungen“ in den Jahren…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Leitfaden zur Prüfung von Projekten

  Audit Universe im Überblick

  DIIR – Deutsches Institut für Interne Revision e. V., Robert Düsterwald, Susanne Fries-Palm, Michael Peis, u.a.

  …27 3 Audit Universe im Überblick 3.1 Prüfgebiete, Prüffelder und Prüfgegenstände Bereits im DIIR Standard Nr. 4 werden die Begriffe „Prüfgebiet“… ….: Systematische Entwicklung eines risikoorientierten Prüfpro- gramms durch die Nutzung der MOPTIC-Methode, ZIR 5/2009. 28 Audit Universe im Überblick stellung… …Projektrevision Das Audit Universe beschreibt die Prüfgebiete und Prüffelder der Projektre- vision. Dabei können auch die Projektphasen berücksichtigt werden… …. Managing Successful Pro- jects with PRINCE2, 2009, S. 307 und 313. 30 Audit Universe im Überblick tenprodukte werden durch das Projektteam nach… …bei einer erstmaligen Prüfung möglichst auch in der aktuellen Phase 32 Audit Universe im Überblick zu prüfen (z. B. Pläne). Wurden sie bereits… …Audit (Prüfung der fachlichen Anforderungen) zugeord- net. Die Prüfung von Projektprodukten unterliegt nicht den Empfehlungen für die Prüfung des… …Prototyp Zwischen- produkte Endprodukt 34 Audit Universe im Überblick 3.3 Unterschiede in den Produktkategorien aus prüferischer Sicht 3.3.1 Prüfung… …notwendig wird. Daher wird empfohlen die fachlichen An- 36 Audit Universe im Überblick forderungen und ihre Umsetzung im Rahmen einer sog… …„Project Audit Universe“ (vgl. Abbildung 4: Matrixmodell des Project Audit Universe).9 Die Struktur des „Project Audit Universe“ ist an die… …modifiziert. Abbildung 4: Matrixmodell des Project Audit Universe 10 Prüfgebiete und Projekt- phasen PROJEKT PHASE I Findung PROJEKT PHASE II Planung…

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