Internal Audit

The latest edition of Audit Together's newsletter - An Internal Audit View - has been published.

As a cohort of eight internal audit partnerships, Audit Together maintains an extensive pool of knowledge and experience in internal audit. They represent the profession at both a national and international level.

Coronavirus has brought into sharp focus the importance of organisational resilience and preparedness for all organisations. Uncertainty about the scope and duration of the pandemic has underlined why it’s essential to have an effective cyber security incident response programme in place.

New guidance for academy schools on internal scrutiny

The new Academies Financial Handbook makes a number of changes to strengthen internal scrutiny within the sector.

May is Internal Audit Awareness Month, and we want to raise awareness by trying to explain what internal audit is and what it does. In this A-Z, we've listed a word or phrase for every letter of the alphabet from the world of internal audit. Hopefully this provides an insight into the profession, and explains some of the jargon commonly used!

It’s Internal Audit Awareness Month! Yes, they really do get a whole month. Normally, May would be the month of great relief for our internal auditors, as it means that ‘year end’ has finished. As we all know, this year things have been a little bit different. 

We’re aiming to raise awareness of internal audit through a series of posts exploring what audit is, where it came from and why it’s important. 

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Scarborough Borough Council is set to join the Veritau group. Veritau provides internal audit, counter fraud, information governance and risk management services to over 500 public sector clients.

Everyone is living in an increasingly digital world. For councils, schools and other organisations, this means:

As part of a series debunking internal audit terminology, we're looking at the three lines of defence. 

The third line of defence is defined by the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors as functions providing independent assurance - "above all internal audit". 

Examples of providers of independent assurance include:

As part of a series debunking internal audit terminology, we're looking at the three lines of defence.

The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors defines the second line of defence as functions overseeing, or specialising in, compliance and risk management.