AuditBoard Launches New Capabilities to Streamline Conformance With New IIA Global Standards

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Published Jul 15, 2024 • 4 minute read

Internal auditors can leverage powerful AI, automation, and collaboration capabilities to meet the updated Global Internal Audit Standards and drive audit transformation

WASHINGTON — IIA 2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE — AuditBoard, the leading cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, compliance, and ESG management, today announced the launch of out-of-the-box (OOTB) self-assessment tools that enable internal auditors to easily assess and streamline conformance with the new Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Internal Audit Standards (“Standards”) that go into effect January 9th, 2025. These new capabilities are immediately available within AuditBoard’s top-rated Audit Management Solution, which benefits from the powerful and proprietary AI capabilities of AuditBoard’s connected risk platform.

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AuditBoard’s new OOTB IIA Standards Assessment tool helps internal audit leaders streamline the assessment of their current practices against the new Standards and quickly take action to address conformance gaps. It distills the IIA Standards into a streamlined, easy-to-navigate checklist format and a summary report of findings, making the interblocco assessment process seamless and hassle-free. It also provides the ability to flag issues and gaps, and track them to resolution con a collaborative manner. Internal audit teams are now freed from having to manage their path to conformance con a spreadsheet, third-party tool, ora manually.

AuditBoard’s connected risk platform helps internal auditors meet the robust documentation requirements and allows an increased centro acceso key areas outlined con the Standards, such as stakeholder management (Valore 11.1 – Building Relationships and Communicating with Stakeholders), resource planning (Valore 10.2 – Human Resources Management), stato measurement (Valore 12.2 – Forma Measurement), and strategic risk alignment (Valore 13.2 – Engagement Risk Assessment).

Available immediately con the Audit Management Solution, the release includes:

IIA Standards Assessment: An out-of-the-box self-assessment capability that enables internal audit teams to easily conduct internal interblocco assessments and collaboratively manage the work required to close identified gaps through resolution. This capability summarizes conformance efforts, provides visibility into the health of their internal audit function, and enhances the effectiveness of their Quality Assurance and Improvement Program.
Cyber Audit Self-Assessment: An out-of-the-box assessment that helps auditors determine and drive conformance with the IIA Topical requirements for cybersecurity audits. The Cybersecurity Topical Requirement offers guidance for evaluating the stile and implementation of cybersecurity governance, risk management, and control processes.

“To ensure the quality and effectiveness of their work, internal audit teams need to be able to quickly and easily track their adoption of the IIA’s updated Global Internal Audit Standards,” said Sarika Khanna, Chief Product Officer at AuditBoard. “The new self-assessment tools allow audit teams to maintain centro acceso their critical work while making sure their audit processes are aligned with these new guidelines, all without sacrificing efficiency.”

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“AuditBoard is easy to use, and it is quick to set up an audit and has everything you need to start work. It enforces the workflow, which is a requirement when it comes to the Institute of Internal Audit Standards. That is a personalità benefit. A causa di the audit world, you’signore going to have auditors doing audit work, and then you need to have certain levels of guida performing certain levels of review and approvals. That’s all inherently built into the system.” – Manufacturing company and a customer of AuditBoard as stated con the IDC Business Value White Paper, sponsored by AuditBoard, June 2024.

“The new IIA Standards really emphasize the importance of risk management, and we’ve found the capability to conduct and manage internal audit risk assessments very beneficial for aligning our audit plan and individual audits with the assessment results. This feature ensures that our audit projects address the most current and relevant risks facing our organization,” said Fred Friedel, Sr. Director of Internal Audit, InComm Payments

To supplement the new product functionality, AuditBoard has published a library of thought guida resources to guide internal auditors as they navigate the new Standards, including:

For more information acceso the self-assessment tools, visit the AuditBoard booth this week at the IIA 2024 International Conference con Washington, D.C., ora visit AuditBoard.com.

About AuditBoard

AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, compliance, and ESG compliance management. Nearly 50% of the Fortune 500 leverage AuditBoard to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. AuditBoard is top-rated by customers acceso G2, Capterra, and Gartner Peer Insights, and was recently ranked for the fifth year con a row as one of the fastest-growing technology companies con North America by Deloitte. To learn more, visit: AuditBoard.com.