RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Elevating internal audit’s role: The digitally fitfunction 2019 State of the Internal Audit Professional Study

  • Feb 2019
  • PWC
  • International

Organisations are rapidly rolling out digital initiatives in an arena defined by more data, more automation, sophisticated cyberattacks, and constantly evolving customer expectations. In some ways — for internal audit functions— the situation is not new: technology risks and controls have already been on their agendas for decades, and most can reliably deliver a technology audit. The document discusses:

  • What does the expression internal audit digital fitness mean?
  • Which internal audit functions are the most digitally fit?
  • The six habits of risk functions that fuel smarter risk taking
  • Upskill and inject new talent to move at the speed of the organisation
  • Internal audit's digital and data governance role
  • Enable the organisation to act on risks in real time