THE inCOMPREHENSIBLE ART OF RECONCILIATION

Indeed, anyone could be fooled into believing that reconciliation is a straightforward concept even with the auditor’s perspective in mind, but is it really understood the way it’s believed? In my experience, it is a classic case of being easier said than done,...

DON’T WRITE IT OFF JUST YET!

What does it take for a business to thrive? Well, if thriving is what the business intends to! And it doesn’t matter what thriving means to it; could be anything depending on its purpose. No, if you thought I was to write internal audit, it being my passion, you were...

NO CHEATING IS INSIGNIFICANT, DIFFERENT

A lot many times, we the internal auditors come across a “Not a Biggie” reaction even to findings representing ethical violations. Not that this reaction is something new we experience because managements ought to be reactionary to every internal audit creation since...

INTERNAL AUDIT……WHY?

Indeed, that’s the most pertinent question entities need to ask at the time they’re fancying with the mere idea of having an internal audit. It’s correct that regulatory requirements and seeing other entities can give us an idea of a reason for investment in internal...

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: LET INTERNAL AUDIT DO IT

Call it an intrusion in what’s classically the Human Resources domain or an extrusion of the typical Internal Audit scope but to me it’s about improvement and value addition because that’s what internal audit does and there’s nothing “typical” about Internal Auditing!...