Leverage the Internet Synopsis The Internet is and will remain a cutting edge resource for internal auditing
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Leverage the Internet Synopsis The Internet is and will remain a cutting edge resource for internal auditing in the future.
‘Asking the right questions to the Internet can add to the knowledge of the internal auditor and value to all risk assessments, internal audit planning, programmes of work and final recommendations.’ Imagination is the key to successful use of the Internet in every internal audit engagement.
Contributed by Jim Kaplan, CIA, founder and Chief Executive Officer of AuditNet, 2007 recipient of The IIA’s Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award, and the author of Leverage the Internet, published in The IIA Internal Auditor (June 2007).
After Reading the Case Study Consider:
1. How familiar are you with ‘ available resources, a grasp of search strategies and language, and the ability to think critically about online content’?
2. Are you developing a catalogue of Internet websites that can be used by your internal auditing in the development of its cutting edge resources and practices?
3. How imaginative is your use of the Internet in the services you provide in your organization?
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