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Internal audit guidance and reports

Support, guidance, reports and thought leadership from the ICAEW on internal audit

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Governance of occupational pension schemes: assurance on internal controls
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Jul 2025
This guidance aims to help trustees understand how different sources of assurance can contribute to the assessment of controls designed to mitigate risk. In particular, it looks at how internal audit and the audit of financial statements can play a part in the governance of UK pension arrangements.
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY ICAEW KNOW HOW How to audit operational resilience
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Feb 2021
In this second paper on operational resilience, we will look at how to develop the audit approach.
Exclusive BUSINESS LAW BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY ICAEW KNOW HOW The Modern Slavery Act: Actions for internal audit
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Nov 2020
  • PDF (117kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 some organisations are required to prepare a section 54 Transparency in Supply Chains Statement. This guide explains the role of the organisation’s internal audit function, and where there is no such function, best practice for management to ensure all risks to the business have been assessed and the relevant controls are in place.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Improve your organisation's level of assurance
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Sep 2019
  • Internal Audit Panel
ICAEW’s Internal Audit Panel has identified eight risk areas where boards and audit committees should be asking themselves whether they are receiving the objective assurance they need amid increased public scrutiny.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY How to audit change
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Sep 2019
  • Audit and Assurance Faculty
Change is a feature of doing business, but managing it successfully can be complex. This guide outlines how internal audit can help project managers implement changes by adopting good practices throughout the project life cycle.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Setting priorities to establish and expand internal audit
  • Report
  • Jul 2019
  • Internal Audit Panel
This guide considers seven challenges commonly faced by smaller internal audit functions and provides recommendations to help heads of internal audit establish and grow an effective function that can meet its priorities.
Exclusive AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Setting priorities to establish and expand internal audit
  • Report
  • Jul 2019
  • PDF (133kb)
  • Audit and Assurance Faculty
This guide considers seven challenges commonly faced by smaller internal audit functions and provides recommendations to help heads of internal audit establish and grow an effective function that can meet its priorities.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY How to audit the cloud
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Nov 2018
  • Audit and Assurance Faculty
Cloud computing is transforming business IT services, but it also poses significant risks that need to be planned for. This practical guide for internal audits outlines how they should assess risk management.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Internal Audit related assurance maps
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Oct 2018
  • Audit and Assurance Faculty
In applying the principles of Assurance mapping it is often the case that, in practice, there is no individual within the organisation who has the relevant skills to start the process. It may also be the case that the Head of Internal Audit wants to help kick-start the process in order to showcase what can be achieved with assurance mapping.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY How do you audit a robot?
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Mar 2018
  • Internal Audit Panel
Guidance for internal auditors on how to provide assurance over the key risks involved in implementing robotic process automation (RPA).
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY How to audit culture
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Mar 2018
  • Audit & Assurance Faculty
This practical guide outlines the eight steps to follow to conduct a successful internal audit of culture.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Internal audit in the age of data analytics
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Jun 2017
  • Audit and assurance Faculty
How internal auditors should strengthen their governance frameworks to cover emerging data-analytics risks in the areas of quality, talent, independence and security.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Data Analytics Transforming Internal Audit
  • Report
  • Mar 2017
  • Stephen Magora
A paper from Credit Suisse entitled: Data Analytics Transforming Internal Audit – Pillars of Success, written by Stephen Magora, Director, Data Analytics at Credit Suisse.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY SPECIAL REPORT Special Report 20: Internal control from a risk-based perspective
  • Report
  • Mar 2008
  • PDF (390kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report, which looks at internal control from a risk-based perspective, could not have come at a more fitting time. Recent events at France’s Société Générale highlight how even the largest and most highly regulated businesses can be severely compromised by the apparent failure of internal controls.
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