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How to Run an Internal Self-Assessment of Your Audit Function (Step by Step)
The Standards require an internal audit function to assess itself, and most functions do it badly: a checklist completed by the person who wrote the methodology, a conformance…
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Standing Up Internal Audit After an IPO: The First 18 Months, Step by Step
The day a company lists, it acquires an audit committee with legal duties, a set of listing rules and SEC deadlines, an external auditor with new expectations, and…
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Internal Audit at Tech and SaaS Companies: The Complete Guide to a Function Built Fast
Technology companies build their internal audit functions late, fast and under a deadline that is usually an IPO, and the function that results looks different from any other…
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Co-Sourcing Rates and Pricing Models: What Internal Audit Help Actually Costs
Co-sourcing is the most common way internal audit buys skills and capacity it does not have, and the one purchase most functions make without a clear picture of…
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The Year-One Audit Plan: What to Audit First When Everything Is Unaudited
A new internal audit function faces a universe in which everything is unaudited and every executive has a view on what should be first. This guide gives the…
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The One-Person Internal Audit Shop: An Operating Manual for the Solo Auditor
A large share of internal audit functions are one person, and almost all the profession’s guidance is written for twenty. This manual is for the solo auditor: how…
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The Internal Audit Methodology Manual: What Goes in It, With a Full Outline Mapped to GIAS
Standard 9.3 requires the chief audit executive to establish methodologies to guide the function, and the manual is where they live. This guide explains what a methodology manual…
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TeamMate vs Onspring: Two FedRAMP-Authorized Options for Public-Sector Audit Teams
Why public-sector and higher-education teams weigh TeamMate against Onspring, what each vendor’s FedRAMP authorization actually covers, real prices from a two-user city quote to a Vendr median, the…
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Free Internal Audit Software: What Is Genuinely Free, What Is a Trial, What to Use Instead
This guide gives an honest account of what is genuinely free in internal audit software, from the 30-day ACL Analytics and Alteryx trials through free tiers in Power…
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Audit Software for Small Internal Audit Teams (1 to 5 Auditors): Options and Real Prices
What a function of one to five auditors actually needs from software, three stacks priced from a near-free Excel setup through TeamMate’s smallest edition and Onspring’s low end,…
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Audit Software vs Excel and SharePoint: When to Switch, and How Big You Need to Be
What Excel, SharePoint and Teams can do well for internal audit, the eight signs a function has outgrown them, a sizing table by team size and plan mix,…
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Pre-IPO SOX Readiness: An 18-Month Plan for the First Year as a Public Company
How a private company gets ready for Sarbanes-Oxley before its initial public offering: what applies at filing, at listing, with the first certification and with the second annual…
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Your First 90 Days as Chief Audit Executive: A Day-by-Day Plan
A plan for a new chief audit executive: what to read and negotiate before day one, a listening tour run as fieldwork, a health check of the function…
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20–30 minutes