Critical thinking can be leveraged as a core approach for internal audit to establish itself as a strategic partner within the business, focused on achieving balance between risk management and business performance.
Embedding critical thinking in the audit process can produce the following results:
In an uncertain and challenging economy, organizations are seeking an approach to internal audit that goes beyond reviewing past activities. Instead, they want internal audits that are insightful, forward looking, and go beyond preserving value to creating value on a departmental, divisional, or organization-wide level.
To meet these expectations, internal audit leaders must strive to migrate to more advanced stages of maturity that evolve basic auditing processes and skills towards an approach to create value and insight to an organization. Many internal audit functions establish goals to achieve higher value; however, they fall short in one of two ways:
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