Internal audit as a monitoring and advisory body

Internal auditing is an integral part of corporate governance and a key instrument for supporting company management in fulfilling its control and monitoring duties. 

Digital transformation calls for IT auditing

In recent years, IT auditing has increasingly developed into a risk- and process-orientated monitoring and advisory body that anticipates technological trends and makes them accessible for audit work on the one hand and provides assistance with regard to the use of new technologies and processes in the company on the other. In the course of the digital transformation, internal audit itself must utilise modern tools and technologies in order to be able to audit digital business processes effectively.

Various internal audit options possible

The increasing complexity of business models, for example due to internationalisation and digitalisation, reinforces the need to set up an internal audit function. There are several regulations that implicitly require the establishment of an internal audit function. For economic reasons, it also appears to make sense, especially for medium-sized companies, to have internal auditing carried out by external persons. This is the only way they can draw on the range of experts required for an effective internal audit (e.g. from the fields of forensics, compliance, IT auditing, process analysis and many more).

Our internal audit services

  • Establishment of an internal audit function
  • Orientation and strategic focussing of the audit function
  • Risk-orientated audit planning
  • Qualification and training of audit staff
  • Support in the performance of individual audits
  • Carrying out individual audits (process analyses, special investigations, etc.)
  • Complete fulfilment of all auditing activities
  • Benchmark analyses of governance structures with regard to the monitoring duties of management and supervisory bodies
  • Certification of internal audit

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