Through the Touchstone Insights for Internal Audit, we are dedicated to the continuous collection and update of our audit industry research.
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What is Touchstone Insights for Internal Audit?

Senior Product Management Director, Colleen Knuff, provides an overview of what the Touchstone Insights for Internal Audit is and how this groundbreaking study will impact the audit industry.

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Touchstone Maturity Model
for Internal Audit

Benchmark your audit team to gauge strengths and areas of focus. The Touchstone Maturity Model for Internal Audit uses 5 Levels of Maturity across 13 Operational Components common to most internal audit teams. With that, you can also see how your team's audit maturity compares to your peers across different industries and regions. No other benchmarking model is as comprehensive and relevant for internal audit practitioners, especially in these dynamic times.

 

Participating organizations receive a copy of the Maturity Map configured specifically for your business.

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Industry Insights

Through our Touchstone Insights research, we are developing fact-based insights that help the audit industry, as a whole, better understand the biggest challenges it’s facing in relation to current events and the advancement of technology in order to drive how we think about audit maturity – where we are, and where we’re going.

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Game-Changing Research

The Touchstone Insights for Internal Audit represents the largest and broadest audit research ever conducted with more than 1,000+ respondents across 120 countries and dozens of industries including financial services, manufacturing, travel, retail, etc.

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Building Better Solutions

By connecting with auditors in such a broad set of locations and situations, we are more connected with the true challenges today’s auditors are facing. These insights feed directly into our product and business plans to ensure we're doing everything we can to help audit teams deliver meaningful value to their organizations.

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Touchstone Insights: A look at the now and tomorrow of internal audit
This session reviews the study approach and scope, key initial findings, a look at benchmarking, and a preview of future insights. Find out what nearly 1,000 internal audit and controls professionals have to say about the current and future state of internal audit.
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Touchstone Research: Agile Audit, Dynamic Risk Assessment, Data-Driven Analytics
Touchstone Insights: Agile audit, Dynamic risk assessment, data-driven analytics
Internal Audit practices have been evolving over the last several years. The need for change has only increased as a result of the pandemic disruption at the individual, team, organizational, and market levels.
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Touchstone Research: Is There Too Much Compliance in your Audit Plan?
Touchstone Insights: Is there too much compliance in your audit plan?
Touchstone Insights for Internal Audit revealed a subtle but important insight: Audit Plans may be too heavily focused on compliance risk at the expense of an appropriate focus on IT risks. Join this session as we share the research data, what might be driving the focus, and what can be done about it.
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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.
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Podcasts
The Audit Podcast with Trent Russell E27: How to leapfrog up the audit analytics maturity model w/Colleen Knuff

Colleen Knuff from Wolters Kluwer TeamMate shares the evidence of how to move up the analytics maturity model through the results of the Touchstone Survey.

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Jamming with Jason E120: Ground-Breaking Insight into the Current and Future State of Internal Audit with Colleen Knuff

In this episode, Jason Mefford talks with Colleen Knuff from Wolters Kluwer TeamMate about the research collected and what insights it can tell us about the current and future state of internal audit and the direction you should be taking.

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Touchstone Insights Articles

Using data from Touchstone Insights for Internal Audit, Wolters Kluwer TeamMate has created informative industry articles to help your team stay up to date with the latest insights, trends, and best practices used around the globe.

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