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  Global Management Challenges for Internal Auditors

  ECIIA Yearbook of Internal Audit 2010/11
  

  978-3-503-12977-5

  European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA), Neil Baker, Philipp Friebe, Adrián Garrido, u.a.

  …internal audit teams will be crucial. The experts of the ECIIA offer you insights and their knowledge about Internal Audit Standards & Professional Practice… …Framework, Corporate Governance & Risk Management, Internal Audit Practices and the future of Internal Auditing. An excellent overview about recent…
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  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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  A Practice Aid for Auditors: Fraud Interviews – An Inquiry Guide

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …. These cases were well beyond the scope of a traditional audit. Nevertheless, auditors have to be more aggressive in order to detect fraud. They have to… …plan and perform every audit with an increased focus on professional scepticism in gathering and evaluat- ing audit evidence. All members of the audit… …team have to be motivated to think about how and where fraud might occur. They have to conduct the audit with a mindset that recognizes the possibility… …that fraud could be present, regardless of any past experience with the audit client and regardless of the belief about manage- ment’s honesty and… …practice aid designed to help the audit team to plan and tailor these fraud interviews as required by the international auditing standards. It in- cludes… …– As you are probably aware, CPAs today are required to assess the risk of fraud in the audit of every company, not just yours. Therefore, we need to… …report to? – Has management reported to the audit committee on the process for identify- ing and responding to the risk of fraud? Has management reported… …the Audit Committee – How does the audit committee communicate with management its views about business practices and ethical behaviour? How would… …such instances to the board? If so, what was the response? – Does the audit committee have knowledge of any actual fraud or suspected fraud… …, analysts, regulators, suppliers or others? Appendix: Practice Aids 300 – Do employees have a direct channel to the audit committee? Are such chan-…

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  Performance Measurement and Controlling of Internal Audit – More Than Just a Measurement Problem

  Dr. Andreas Langer, Andreas Herzig, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Pedell

  …107 Performance Measurement and Controlling of Internal Audit – More Than Just a Measurement Problem By Dr. Andreas Langer, Andreas Herzig… …, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Pedell72 Internal audit must face the challenge of measuring, documenting and communicat- ing its added value. For this purpose… …, the customers and functions of internal audit must first be identified. Significant deficits still exist with performance measure- ment on this basis… …added value of internal audit. Therefore, clear and transparent criteria should be used as a basis for the selection of indicators; relevance, reactivity… …, controllability and output orientation are suitable as basic criteria. The further development of the performance measurement and controlling of internal audit… …internal audit, it is well advised – as well as any other corporate department – to provide evidence that the resources, which it utilises, and the results… …internal processes in inter- nal audit has tended to take place in Anglo-Saxon literature. The question regarding which contribution is provided by internal… …audit to enterprise value and how this can be measured has also been frequently asked, but has not yet been answered very concretely. The debate… …surrounding this issue and relevant application-oriented ap- proaches has lagged behind the importance of this subject until now. In fact, inter- nal audit can… …division in Germany and heads up the Internal Audit and Controls Assurance divisions; Prof. Dr. Burkhard Pedell is a Full Professor of Management Accounting…

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  Internal Auditor – Generalist or Specialist

  Dr. Heinrich Schmelter

  …123 Internal Auditor – Generalist or Specialist By Dr. Heinrich Schmelter73 The work of internal audit is subject to a constant change… …Engineer- ing), young auditors can advance from audit assistant, to auditor and senior auditor. Other career options are chief auditor and ultimately… …, internal audit manager. The auditors working in industrial companies can accordingly be roughly classified into 5 career status levels: – audit… …assistant – auditor – senior auditor – chief auditor or decentralised audit manager – internal audit manager For some of the internal auditors, the… …aim could be to move to the specialist de- partments – e.g. after 5 years at the earliest. Conversely, internal audit departments sometimes also… …audit employees – with long-term experience – and 50 % employees moving into or out of the department, with only a temporary audit activity74… …. ___________________ 73 Dr. Heinrich Schmelter has been working in management functions for 30 years (audit, con- trolling and IT), in the automobile industry. 74… …Specialist department Auditor (min. 3 years) Audit assistant (min. 2 years) Move from specialist department UAS/ university degree Audit as “springboard”… …for career and move to specialist department Decentralised (foreign) internal audit manager (min. 3 years) Internal audit manager Chief (min. 2… …years)Auditor(min. 3 years) Audit assistant (min. 2 years) “Career” in audit Senior auditor min. 2 years 0 2 5 7 8 10 years Chief (min. 2 years) Senior Auditor…

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  Grenzen und Probleme des Innovationsaudits

  Prof. Dr. Martin Kaschny, Nadine Hürth

  …möglicher- weise stark beeinträchtigt und kann das Audit Ergebnis verfälschen. Hier wird gezeigt, welche Probleme bei einem Audit auftreten können und wo… …wird bei den Grenzen und Problemen zwischen einem internen und externen Audit unterschieden. 8.1 Interner Auditor Die nachfolgenden Hindernisse… …Audit stößt gerade bei den Abteilungsleitern oftmals auf offene Ohren, da sie großes Interesse haben, die Engpässe in ihrer Abteilung und bei ihren… …ein kritisches Licht rücken könnten. Gleichwohl sind seine Daten und Informationen unverzicht- bar und für das Audit von großer Bedeutung… …ausreichend unterstützt; für das Audit wichtige Informationen werden zu- rückgehalten. Kritisierender Auditor: Kritisiert ein externer Berater… …wichtige Faktoren bei der Befragung übersehen werden und bei der Analy- se der Daten nicht einfließen. Die mit einem Audit verbundenen Schwierigkeiten… …speziell auf das Unternehmen ausgerichtetes Audit durchzuführen. Die Herausforderung ist dabei, die richtigen Faktoren und Parameter so zu integrieren… …Deutlichkeit zu vermitteln. – Der Auditor verfolgt mit dem Audit auch eigene Interessen. Er verschweigt negative Ergebnisse, weil er sich Folgeaufträge (z. B… …beschafft als bei einem Selbstaudit. Der interne Auditor muss das Audit möglicherweise mit unvollständigen Informationen durch- führen. Durch die… …standardisierten Audit können Kosten gespart werden, der Preis ist je- doch, dass möglicherweise nicht alle wichtigen Fakten in die Analyse mit einbezo- gen werden…

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  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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  Umsetzung der Ergebnisse des Innovationsaudits

  Prof. Dr. Martin Kaschny, Nadine Hürth

  …103 6. Umsetzung der Ergebnisse des Innovationsaudits Das vorhergehende Kapitel hat die Audit Werkzeuge betrachtet und beschrieben, auf… …werden im Folgenden insbesondere die letzten beiden Audit Phasen (vgl. Abbildung 48). In diesen Phasen sind die Ergebnisse dem Unternehmen be- reits… …Bevor es um die Handlungsempfehlungen und Maßnahmen geht, zunächst ein Blick auf den das Audit auswertenden Abschlussbericht. 6.1 Ergebnis und… …Abschlussbericht Unabhängig davon, ob es sich um ein Selbstaudit oder geführtes Audit handelt, wertet der Abschlussbericht das Audit aus. Im Idealfall nimmt er… …Neutralität mangelt und eine gehörige Portion Selbsttäuschung in das Audit einfließt. Bei selbstkritischer Durchführung kann je- doch auch ein Selbstaudit zu… …gültigen Ergebnissen kommen. Die Mischform aus geführtem Audit und Selbstaudit hat den Vorteil, dass nach der Befragung auf Expertenwissen zurückgegriffen… …, München Abbildung 51: Kombination von Selbstaudit und geführtem Audit Quelle: Herstatt u.a.: Impulsreferat zum Workshop „Hamburger Innovationsaudit“, März… …Audit und seine Ergebnisse von den Mitarbeitern und der Führungs- ebene akzeptiert werden und sich keine Widerstände bilden, können die erforderli- chen… …langfristig und dauerhaft miteinander in Einklang gebracht werden. Der Begriff kann auf das Innovations- audit übertragen werden. Denn hier geht es nicht nur… …Innovationsfähigkeit zum Bestandteil des Unternehmensleitbilds macht. Ein konkreter Ausdruck dieses Leitbilds kann sein, dass das Audit in regelmäßigen Ab- ständen…

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  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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  Doing More with Less

  Neil Baker

  …resources? Geoffrey Storms is philosophical about the impact of the economic downturn on his internal audit function. His current employer recruited him… …four years ago to build an audit function from scratch. His team has been working hard to educate man- agement and the board about what internal audit… …against the budget cuts. He told senior management at the mining company where he is the head of internal audit that pruning audit resources in a downturn… …ing to persuade people who hold the corporate purse strings that now would be the worst time to cut audit resources. Naturally, the heads of other… …piece of a shrinking budget pie. So does internal audit really deserve special protection? And if it does have to take a share of the pain – which seems… …to be the case for most audit functions – how can heads of internal audit rework their plans so they continue to deliver assurance and value with… …less money? 1 Budget Crunch Storms met his budget cut by losing two front-line audit posts. His internal audit team has three managers, each with his… …or her own audit staff – there were 15 peo- ple in total, nine of whom actually worked on audits. That number has fallen to seven. Baker 100… …“We examined the audit plan for 2009 and considered how we would accomplish our objectives with two fewer staff members,” Storms says. They eventually… …with his audit committee. When he joined the company four years ago, the committee gave him a mandate to identify and risk-rate its audit universe, and…

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