Internal audit publications

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 2009 State of the internal audit profession study: Business upheaval: Internal audit weighs its role amid the recession and evolving enterprise risks
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ fifth annual state of the internal audit profession study reveals an internal audit profession in flux, making rapid adjustments to a world that seems at once expanding, contracting, and changing…always changing.
 
An opportunity for transformation: How internal audit helps contribute to shareholder value
Rapidly accelerating pressures fuel the need for internal audit to transform its thinking from financial-controls centric to shareholder-value centric – and to drive efficiency into traditional internal audit processes.
 
Internal audit 2012
A study examining the future of internal auditing and the potential decline of a controls-centric approach.
 
2008 State of the internal audit profession study: Targeting key threats and changing expectations to deliver greater value
Study results indicate that rapid, pervasive change is quickly transforming the practice of internal audit, raising significant issues for audit leaders and their chief stakeholders. There is a clear gap between the current focus of many internal audit functions and where internal auditors need to set their sights in order to deliver greater value to their stakeholders. View current publication.
Audit committee effectiveness: What works best, 3rd edition
This monograph provides numerous examples of how leading audit committees are not just coping, but are succeeding in discharging their evolving and substantial responsibilities. Face-to-face input from 40 of the most experienced, knowledgeable audit committee chairs and thought leaders went into its development.