Internal auditors and chief compliance officers appear to have differing opinions about the internal audit department’s ability to assess risk and compliance functions.
That’s according to the findings of a recent poll conducted by the Open Compliance and Ethics Group, which surveyed more than 500 enterprises in the public, private, government, and non-profit sectors. In the poll, roughly 65 percent of internal auditors say they are capable of assessing an organization’s risk and compliance functions—but less than 40 percent of everyone else agreed.
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“Everyone else” in the poll is a mix of various governance, risk, and compliance executives, OCEG President ...