Focusing on unexpected successes and areas of strategic importance — and sometimes ignoring the customer — can help organisations survive competitive risks.
Reforms adopted worldwide in the past 12 years have reduced regulatory constraints on small and midsize businesses, especially in emerging economies. Find out where the regulatory improvements have made the biggest difference.
The daily headlines are filled with stories of companies that were damaged when culture went awry. Here’s how internal audit can deliver value by providing a clear focus on organizational culture.
Public company audit committees are increasing disclosures related to their oversight of external auditors, a Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) study shows.
Keeping enterprise risk management top of mind with board members, senior executives and midlevel managers can be challenging, says Lynn Fountain, a management consultant and former chief audit executive. These steps can help companies manage different types of risks and drive performance.
More corporate boards are asked to balance the short-term demands of activist investors and the long-term strategic planning that technological innovation demands.
The International Business Compass ranks 174 countries by economic, regulatory, and labour force conditions to allow small and midsize enterprises interested in expanding their export business or their overseas production a first look at new markets.
Pay for a typical outside director of a US public company hit $250,000, according to research by Towers Watson of proxy statements filed before June 30th.
Despite efforts to do a better job handling cyber-threats, financial institutions worldwide are still outdone by nimble cyber-criminals. Here are tips for how financial institutions can become more resilient.
A constantly expanding set of technological tools presents rapidly increasing opportunities for internal auditors to provide value to their organisations.
Although measuring culture is a difficult task, internal auditors are well-placed to provide boards with useful insight into the cultural health of their organisation by examining the cultural aspects that influence and affect the criteria that are being audited.
To increase SMEs’ options, especially as heightened regulatory scrutiny has raised banks’ risk aversion in the wake of the global financial crisis, the International Organization of Securities Commissions offers seven recommendations to ease SMEs’ access to capital markets.
Internal audit is playing an important role in helping businesses succeed in an environment where technological innovation and global interconnectedness present rapidly moving challenges and opportunities.
