TeamMate Audit Industry Reports

Data analytics play a pivotal role in guiding audits and helping to uncover insights. Download this report to learn how the technique of root cause analysis can help internal auditors unravel the narrative behind the numbers.

The consequences of cyberattacks are increasingly severe and more complex. A cybersecurity framework prioritizes a flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective approach to cybersecurity preparedness, promoting the protection of your organization.

Successful auditing of culture requires a holistic approach across the internal audit function covering the development of internal auditor skills, adjustment to audit methodology, and buy-in from the business.

Internal auditors will have a pivotal role to play as mandatory ESG reporting gains momentum and organizations face increasing pressure on the reliability of their non-financial reporting.

Using data visualization when presenting your audit findings can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your audit report.

Learn more about what auditors can do to identify issues, provide solutions, and influence management where action is needed.

Learn more about the fast-changing landscape of the public sector and how government agencies are mitigating risk efficiently and effectively.

Download this report to better understand the measures every auditor can take to help mitigate the impact of organizational risk.

Achieving greater audit efficiency should be a constant ambition for every internal audit team. Learn about an effective framework to improve audit efficiency.

Esta guía pretende ayudar a los departamentos de auditoría a entender, preparar y realizar la compra de un sistema de gestión de auditorías.

This guide is intended to help audit departments prepare for audit management software vendor discussions and is a supplement to the buyer’s guide.

Download this report to better understand how the skills of an internal auditor can be leveraged to support an organization’s ESG strategy.

Download this report to better understand how UK SOX is a regulatory framework designed to increase transparency, accountability, and investor trust in UK public companies.

This report considers the role of internal audit and how it can help public sector organizations move forward responsibly with their ESG implementation.

This report explores how agile audit is the catalyst for achieving audit modernization.

This report explores how data that’s extracted from your audit processes enables greater results.

Internal audit teams can provide assurances over IT practices and controls and play a supportive role in combating ransomware risks.

ESG factors are used to evaluate a company’s commitment to sustainable operations.

Learn about the importance of clearly defining, establishing, and managing internal audit risks.

Want to learn more about risk management? Detection and mitigation are essential to continued business operations.

Data analytics provide assurance and insight. Learn more about the internal audit function and their role as trusted advisors.

Internal audit teams broadly agree on their mission, but each internal audit department makes individual decisions about priorities.

How can we move forward with improving digital skills, given how important they’re becoming? Complete a digital skills assessment, identifying gaps between the digital skills we have and our objective, and creating a plan to address those gaps.

TeamMate Audit Benchmark highlighted three key findings for internal auditors. First, internal audit teams need to revamp their methodologies to be more adaptive and responsive.

Learn about the 4 characteristics of internal audit functions successfully rely on to achieve continual and strategically aligned change.

According to the TeamMate Audit Benchmark, 36 percent of the respondents indicate they are planning a significant methodology change by the end of 2022.

Auditors are moving toward an agile and adaptive mindset. Discover real-world advice around agile adoption and the practical steps to get you started.

Curious about the benefits of data analytics in audit? Add value to your organization by embedding data analytics into your audit testing.

TeamMate Audit Benchmark is an ongoing assessment of the trends in methodology and work practices of global internal audit teams.

TeamMate Audit Benchmark is an ongoing assessment of the trends in methodology and work practices of global internal audit teams within the financial services industry.

Take an agile approach to your agile audit process. You must learn to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. Think evolution, not revolution.

Find out what 3 steps are necessary to audit ambitiously and move your internal audit function to the next level, and how to take them.

In this article, we take a close look at the practicalities of using an agile team-level framework to work in sprints to deliver audits more effectively and efficiently.

With a recent focus on issues such as diversity and climate change, it has become increasingly urgent for organizations to understand and manage Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks.

“Value” is often used somewhat loosely in internal audit without adequately understanding how auditors actually add value. Do you add value just by showing up to conduct an internal audit?

Servicios financieros es una industria compleja y en constante evolución. En nuestro informe describimos algunos riesgos emergentes que pueden surgir y tomar a muchas organizaciones por sorpresa.

Data analytics is changing the way many organizations detect fraud. As fraud schemes become more sophisticated and the amount of data organizations produce continues to grow, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to uncover fraud.

Trabajar desde casa se ha convertido en una puerta de entrada a las amenazas cibernéticas, ya que los empleados a veces pueden ser un eslabón débil en los sistemas de seguridad de TI corporativos.

Being agile-minded requires you to rethink how internal audit teams perform their work and add value to stakeholders.

I’d like to introduce the concept of enabling constraints as a way of changing the system. Better than that, change and behaviours that will stick and have longevity – and avoid “rubber band syndrome.”

Artificial intelligence, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), and machine learning—all new technologies that are evolving quickly. But how much do you really know about them? Internal Auditors will soon be tasked with using this technology.

With so much happening all around us, how can internal auditors manage risk and environmental changes to deliver timely insights that matter most to the business?

Internal auditors with a background in IT or data analytics are in high demand these days. But finding internal auditors with this type of skill set is hard, and retaining them is even more challenging.

Although auditors often associate data analytics with fraud testing, financial audits, or continuous monitoring, the fact is that data analytics can be used for much more than common numerical analytical procedure testing.

Mindset is the foundation of success and is created through the combination of education, training, and experience. We should therefore consider mindset in an internal audit team’s performance.

Is auditing culture just another risk factor in a governance audit, or could it be seen as the basis for the entire audit plan?