Internal Audit Critical Capabilities

Look inside the Kanban:

Make sure the group manager is responsible for presenting and obtaining approval of the internal audit plan to the respective audit committees of the entity boards and serves as a liaison with external auditors to coordinate scheduling and partnered resourcing.    

Benefits of the Internal Audit Kanban 

2237 Ready to use prioritized Internal Audit requirements:

• Where does responsibility for strategic fraud risk management lie within your organization, and what role does internal audit have in the prevention, detection, and investigation of fraud? 
• Does your organization have adequate and effective measures to monitor internal control in case it has no internal audit function? 
• Does internal audit have a consistent and effective audit and compliance program set forth and completed over the financial risk management functions of your organization? 
• Does the head of internal audit have a process in place to ensure that work is allocated to auditors who have the appropriate skills, experience, and competence? 
• Does your organization have a comprehensive internal audit plan for your organization's cybersecurity program? 
• Is the internal audit department in your organization expected to provide independent assurance regarding the activities of risk management, compliance, and other assurance functions? 
• Does the internal audit activity evaluate and contribute to the improvement of your organization's governance, risk management, and internal control processes? 
• Do internal auditors have sufficient knowledge of key information technology risks and controls and available technology-based audit techniques to perform the assigned work? 
• Does the internal audit function have a recognized role within your organization as an ethical sounding board? 
• Are your internal audit and risk management departments prepared to navigate your organization on the cloud journey?   

Summary

The Art of Service has identified and prioritized 2237 Internal Audit critical capabilities and use cases to assess and use. Leaders can select those results that best align with their business needs before implementing a solution.

The Art of Service's Critical Capabilities evaluates and prioritizes hundreds of results to help with the outcome selection process.

This Critical Capabilities Kanban will enable leaders to shortlist hundreds of relevant results fast because they are uniquely ready-to-use prioritized, starting with the 'Must Have' category; the most urgent and critical priorities.

This Kanban will help you plan and manage your Internal Audit roadmap.

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As seen in the Kanban above, the complete 2237 Internal Audit critical capabilities and use cases, their prioritization, workflows, tagging, and questions. 

The download is available as an easy-to-re-use Excel format, which you can use as is, or import into any management tool of your choice, like Monday.com, Atlassian, Smartsheet, Power BI, Asana, Airtable, etc. 

Also included is the Internal Audit critical capabilities Book in PDF format covering all the criteria including ideas for (potential) roles to assign the requirements to.

Table of contents:

About The Art of Service 

Internal Audit Critical Capabilities, Meaningful Metrics, And Their Prioritization 

Background 

Prioritization Of Requirements 

The Prioritization Categories Are: 

• Must Have 
• Should Have 
• Ought to Have 
• Might Have 
• Could Have 

Use In New Product/Service/Process Development  

Benefits 

The Critical Internal Audit Capabilities And Their Priorities: 

• Priority - Must Have # 
• Priority - Should Have #
• Priority - Ought to Have # 
• Priority - Might Have # 
• Priority - Could Have #