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Audit Planning Tool (hardware)

Tuesday Dec 29, 2009

So, New Year comes - New Audit comes. You can easily imagine, that upcoming week will bring your accounting and reporting team a lot of fun, while you (internal auditor) will be relaxing somewhere in quiet and peaceful corner of your office checking 2009 controls. However, let’s go to today’s topic - planning of engagement by external auditor.

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Code of ethics and other blah-blah-blah…

Saturday Dec 9, 2006

Probably, everybody knows, that Code of Ethics (Code of Conduct if you want) is a really useless document, on which Internal Audit insists for compliance reasons and used only twice – when deleted from mailbox and when requested to sign-off.

And it’s true. But there is also other true: It will remain useless until you do not use it. “Simple and stupid” – you’d say and again will be right.

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