TeamMate Audit Industry Reports

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.

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

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?

Financial services is a complex and ever-evolving industry. In this report, we outline some emerging risks that can spring up and catch organizations off guard.

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.

Interviews require face-to-face meetings, testing often involves reviewing confidential information, and documentation could require us to be on our organization’s network. With these challenges, how can we effectively conduct our audits remotely?

Working from home has become a gateway to cyber threats as employees can sometimes be a weak link in corporate IT security systems. There are several things remote workers can do to reduce their own contribution to an organization’s IT risk.

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.

The world we live in is rapidly changing. As these changes occur, risks are also emerging at an incredible pace. 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.

As the world's leading audit and assurance expert's solution, TeamMate+ helps you conform to the IIA standards just by using it.

In addition to implementing the right audit analytics solution, there are several steps you can take to advance the use of data analytics within your internal audit team.

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?