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1 Strategically Setting Up Internal Audit to Add Value: Sawyer’s 7th Edition

Strategically Setting Up Internal Audit to Add Value · CH 6 - Building Relationships “Relationships with stakeholders can either contribute to the success of internal audit functions

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Strategically

Setting Up Internal

Audit to Add Value: Sawyer’s 7th Edition

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Polling Question 1Please open the conference app to participate

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Polling Question 1

What role do you play? a. Internal Audit Leader (CAE/Director)

b. Internal Audit Manager

c. Audit Staff

d. Technical Auditor (IT, Data Analytics, etc.)

e. Non-Auditor (2nd Line Support, Compliance, Info Sec, etc.)

f. Outside Service Provider

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The only guarantee is CHANGE…

Internal auditors produce information…how

much value does it deliver today?

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The only guarantee is CHANGE…

Internal auditors produce information…how

much value does it deliver today?

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The only guarantee is CHANGE…

Internal auditors produce information…how

much value does it deliver today?

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Where are we today?

If our services and audit reports were technology…

Which type of technology would they be?

1973

1992

2019

What role with audit info play in integrated risk

management systems of tomorrow?

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Polling Question 2Please open the conference app to participate

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Polling Question 2

What certifications do you hold?a. Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)

b. Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA)

c. Any Risk Management Certification

d. Certified in Investigations/Fraud (CFE, etc.)

e. Certified in Accounting (CPA)

e. Other Certification

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Strategic Internal Audit

Strategic Risks & Opportunities

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Objectives Today

• Review Internal Audit

Strategic Risks

• Overview of Sawyers 7th

Edition Tools & Support

• Taking the Next Step

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Internal Audit Strategic Risks

• Reputation – professionalism

• Competition – from 2nd line function growth

and outside service providers

• Collaboration – “enhance and protect

organizational value”

• Risk system consolidation – ERM

decision support

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Polling Question 3Please open the conference app to participate

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Polling Question 3

Which Strategic Risk is most significant to your

organization?a. Reputation – professionalism of internal audit

b. Competition – 2nd line of defense growth, InfoSec, Compliance, RM

c. Collaboration – Need to find new ways to add value, complexity

d. Risk System Consolidation – ERM involvement, role, politics

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Sawyers 7th Edition – Strategic Tools

• Challenge your perspective of value

• Know where you are today – services and

products

• Identify what has to change to do more

• Consider best practices

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Sawyers 7th Edition

“Enhancing and Protecting

Organizational Value”

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Sawyer’s 7th Edition – Setting Up the IA Shop

Chapter 1: Internal Audit Strategy

Chapter 2: Audit Products/Services

Chapter 3: Audit Operations/Capabilities

Chapter 4: Audit Team/Resourcing Model

Chapter 5: Audit Leaders/Staff

Chapter 6: Building Relationships

Chapter 7: Business Acumen

Chapter 8: Context within which Audit Works

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Chapter 1 - Challenge your perspective of value

Three Cornerstones of Internal Audit Strategy• Stakeholder Expectations

• IA Professional Expectations

• CAE Expectations

What is the Value Proposition?

What Drives Value?

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Chapter 2 - Know where you are today

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Type of Services & Products

Generation 5 – Objectives-Based Auditor

Generation 4 – Risk Management-Based

Auditor

Generation 3 – Risk-Based Auditor

Generation 2 – Internal Control Process

Auditor

Generation 1 – Internal/External Auditor

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Identify what has to change to do more

Chapter 3: Audit Operations/Capabilities

Chapter 4: Audit Team/Resourcing Model

Chapter 5: Audit Leaders/Staff

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Manage the environment for growth

CH 6 - Building Relationships

“Relationships with stakeholders can either contribute to the success of internal

audit functions or break it.”

CH 7 - Business Acumen

“In general business acumen means CAEs effectively align their own

perspective of value with the perspective of board and management

stakeholders”

CH – 8 Understanding the Context for IA

“It is more important than ever for internal audit to partner with SME’s and the

second line of defense functions…and define IA effectiveness”

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Sawyer’s 7th Edition – Delivering IA Services

Chapter 9: The Internal Audit Mission and Its Risks

Chapter 10: Risk Assessment and Audit Planning

Chapter 11: Planning the Audit Engagement

Chapter 12: Assessing Internal Control

Chapter 13: Audit Communication (Reporting and Follow-up)

Chapter 14: Assembling and Supervising the Internal Audit Team

Chapter 15: Specialty Skill Areas

Chapter 16: Advisory Services

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Chapter10 Risk Assessment and Audit Planning

Risk Assessing – defined by service/product expectation

Generation 5 – Integrated risk assessment, 2nd line, risk mgmt., and audit

Generation 4 – Top-down risk assessments, strategic risk, risk mgmt.

Generation 3 – What could go wrong… risk assessments

Generation 2 – Transaction, efficiency and hazard risks audited

Generation 1 – Compliance or financial reporting risks audited

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Polling Question 4Please open the conference app to participate

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Polling Question 4

What generation reflects your risk assessment

efforts? a. Generation 5 – Integrated risk assessment, 2nd line, risk mgmt.,

and audit

b. Generation 4 – Top-down risk assessments, strategic risk, risk

mgmt.

c. Generation 3 – What could go wrong… risk assessments

d. Generation 2 – Transaction, efficiency and hazard risks audited

e. Generation 1 – Compliance or financial reporting risks audited

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Chapter 11 Planning the Audit Engagement

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Planning Considerations – defined by service/product

Generation 5 – business objectives at risk, sub objectives, strength of

oversight and operations, 2nd line assessments and actions

Generation 4 – strategic/operational priorities, risk mgmt. practices, culture

Generation 3 – scope implied by risk, further investigate, define

Generation 2 – add…flowcharting, key performance indicators

Generation 1 – standards, regulations, systems, policies

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Chapter 12 Internal Control

Risk and Control Implications – defined by types of engagement

Generation 5 – Risk – simply the effect of uncertainty on objectives

Control – actions align with mgmt. process for oversight,

operations alignment of people, process, and technology

Generation 4 – Risk – Risk Mgmt. is a management job, they structure

Control – expands to include good mgmt./governance

Generation 3 – Risk – mgmt. perspective of what could go wrong

Control – less tangible definitions, stop bad events

Generation 2 – Risk – expands to inefficiency and ineffectiveness

Control – expands to process documentation, analytics

Generation 1 – Risk – noncompliance with standards and regulations

Control – transactional accuracy, completeness

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Sawyer’s 7th Edition – Delivering IA Services

Chapter 9: The Internal Audit Mission and Its Risks

Chapter 10: Risk Assessment and Audit Planning

Chapter 11: Planning the Audit Engagement

Chapter 12: Assessing Internal Control

Chapter 13: Audit Communication (Reporting and Follow-up)

Chapter 14: Assembling and Supervising the Internal Audit Team

Chapter 15: Specialty Skill Areas

Chapter 16: Advisory Services

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Conclusion

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Next Steps

• Understand your internal audit strategic risks

• Know expectations/needs of organization, and

plan to exceed them, lead change

• Get clinical about the value that you deliver

with services and products

• Define a few initiatives to begin mitigating your

strategic risk and elevating the value delivered

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Thank You

The Institute of Internal Auditors

Dan Clayton, CPA, CIA, CKM

Independent Management Consultant - ISC

[email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-clayton-cia-

cpa-ckm-52b2227

Paul J. Sobel, CIA, QIAL, CRMA

COSO Chairman

[email protected]

www.coso.org

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