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Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY How IA should approach providing assurance over AI
  • 10 Feb 2026
  • Paul Haley and Donna Littlechild - Littlechild & Haley
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future consideration for internal audit. Across the UK, AI is already embedded in everyday processes, from data analysis and forecasting to customer interaction and decision support.
Exclusive Gaining confidence in your supply chain and third-party management
  • 10 Feb 2026
  • Maxi Glas
For internal auditors, confidence in supply chains and third-party arrangements is no longer secondary. It is central to financial resilience, and organisational integrity.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Embedding the science of behaviour to improve controls
  • 09 Feb 2026
  • Steve Brown - Brave Within LLP
Many of us know the old trick of splitting purchase orders, and may even have done it ourselves. Keep each one below the next approval threshold and the system can’t tell they are part of a larger commitment.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY ERM is dead (as we know It): Why strategic resilience must lead in 2026
  • 05 Feb 2026
  • Emma Price - Brave Within LLP
Traditional Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is dead. A controversial statement perhaps.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Navigating a complex world: Reflecting on ICAEW’s annual conference for the Internal Audit Community
  • 05 Jan 2026
  • Carolyn Clarke - Internal Audit Community
In November we held our second annual conference.
Your membership: Network with your peers
  • 04 Dec 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Want to grow your network of like-minded accountants? ICAEW has faculties and communities that cover industry sectors, technical areas and career stages. Gain access to tailored events and resources.
Cyber security biggest risk as businesses reel from major attacks
  • 23 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Annual poll of Chief Internal Auditors highlights cyber security as the number one risk, with digital threats intensifying following attacks on European airports over the weekend and recent cyber breaches at M&S, the Co-op, Harrods, The North Face and Jaguar Land Rover.
Governance failings putting broadband sector at risk, body warns
  • 08 Aug 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors flags up a governance gap and a heightened risk of collapse in the broadband sector due to lack of internal audit across major suppliers.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY When the stakes are high rethinking third-party risk after Macondo
  • 13 Jun 2025
  • Steve Brown, Brave Within
Some risks only become clear when it's too late. I was working at BP during the Macondo disaster - an experience that deeply shaped how I think about third-party risk.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Current progress in responding to the new internal audit standards
  • 13 Jun 2025
  • Michael Lucas, Brave Within
When the 2024 Global Internal Audit Standards were issued, they promised evolution rather than revolution.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Navigating the complexities of diversity and inclusion in the workforce
  • 13 Jun 2025
  • Ololade Adesanya, Global Head of Asset Management and insurance Audit, HSBC
Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is currently the subject of intense debate. Does it still serve a purpose in today’s organisations?
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Delivering accountability over governance: A local authority lens
  • 12 Jun 2025
  • Diana Melville, CIPFA Governance Advisor
As the updated UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 (the Code) comes into force, it’s time to compare its enhanced requirements for risk management and internal controls reporting with those of UK local government.
Are audit committees in a better position now?
  • 24 Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Seven years of regulatory tightening and firms’ own restructuring has ensured the roles of audit committees and internal auditors are more important than ever.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Strengthening the three lines
  • 21 Mar 2025
  • Steven Brown
The 'three lines model' remains a cornerstone of effective organisational risk management. The first line responsibility for managing risk has to be at the heart of a strong risk management approach.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Getting the basics right: keeping the organisation safe when there are other priorities
  • 21 Mar 2025
  • Sarita Haggart
In today's fast-paced business environment, organisations often find themselves juggling multiple priorities, from driving innovation to meeting customer demands. However, amidst these competing priorities, it is crucial not to lose sight of the fundamental aspects that ensure the safety and compliance of the organisation.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY The Procurement Act: Signposting fairer procurement principles
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Carolyn Clarke: Internal Audit Community, Subject Matter Expert
The new Procurement Act went live on 24th February 2025, unifying existing regulation. All new arrangements within the public procurement system entered into after this date are subject to the new requirements.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Internal audit as a central driver of transformation success
  • 19 Mar 2025
  • Alison Hill
To remain competitive in today’s rapidly changing business landscape and regulatory environment many firms will pursue major transformation and cost reduction programmes.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Economic and Corporate Crime and Transparency Act (ECCTA) 2024
  • 07 Jan 2025
  • Carrie Stephenson, Brave Within LLP
While significant attention has been focused on the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024, the emergence of ECCTA has received less focus. And yet it applies to a much broader spectrum of organisations and carries consequences that are more specific and potentially more wide reaching.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Unpicking the three lines
  • 02 Jan 2025
  • Carolyn Clarke, Internal Audit Community Subject Matter Expert
What does Three Lines mean to you? I would imagine it’s a concept that most who work within, or are involved with, internal audit understand well.
Exclusive INTERNAL AUDIT COMMUNITY Integrating Regulatory Obligations within an Internal Audit Plan
  • 02 Jan 2025
  • Carolyn Clarke, Internal Audit Community Subject Matter Expert
Companies face heightened expectations from a range of stakeholders. The risk landscape is increasingly complex. All organisations face external and unpredictable challenges, including geopolitical and cyber-security risks, as well as the unprecedented development of new technologies, including AI.
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