1st Edition

Risk-Based Auditing

By Phil Griffiths Copyright 2005
232 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

The role of internal audit is changing. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in the US and the Combined Code for Corporate Governance in the UK focused on the need to demonstrate the active management of risks and report on this subject to shareholders. Boards of Directors are therefore increasingly requiring their Internal Audit functions to provide a much higher level of assurance in this regard. Phil... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 What is Risk-based Audit?; Chapter 2 The Need to Understand Risk; Chapter 3 Refocusing the Audit Role to Embrace Risk; Chapter 4 Risk-based Audit Planning; Chapter 5 Undertaking a Risk-based Audit; Chapter 6 Risk-based Audit Reporting; Chapter 7 Measuring Success and Marketing Risk-based Audit; Chapter 8 Corporate Assurance and the Internal Audit Role; Chapter 9 The Future;

Biography

Phil Griffiths is founder and Managing Director of Business Risk Management Ltd. A Chartered Accountant, he has over 25 years' experience in internal audit and risk management as a practitioner, advisor and lecturer. Phil specializes in helping Internal Audit functions to implement world-class standards and practices, and in assisting senior management to identify, manage and exploit business risks. He is internationally recognized as an accomplished and charasmatic facilitator and trainer, and as a pioneer of risk-based audit.