Internal Audit Consulting

Elevate internal audit to your strategic partner.

Whether you want to initiate a world-class internal audit function or make changes that increase the value of your current function, it can be difficult to know where to start. Very often, like Newton’s first law of motion, it’s easier to remain with current practices than determine what’s needed to institute meaningful and lasting change.

Knowing where you want to go

A significant obstacle to launching or enhancing an internal audit function is developing a clear picture of internal audit’s strategic role within your company. Many companies have concluded that today’s complex business environment demands that internal audit expand its activities. This often requires the internal audit department to elevate its role to strategic partner in all activities surrounding governance, risk and compliance, with the objective of improving risk identification, leveraging organization-wide synergies and rapidly identifying new threats.

Internal audit departments are not a one-size fits all solution. Our experienced professionals will work with your internal audit stakeholders to gain consensus on the desired mission for internal audit within your organization so that an effective model can be developed and deployed to achieve these well-defined objectives.

Institute value-added changes more quickly

Having great vision is important, but in order to derive any value, the vision needs to be effectively implemented. Our objective advice and guidance can make it easier to arrive at your final destination more quickly. Using best practices developed over hundreds of engagements and a risk-based, methodology based on the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission framework, our consultants will provide your internal audit transformation effort with the confidence of success and implementation efficiencies gained only through experience.

Contact us so we can help you get where you want and need to be.