A new survey of internal auditors finds that they are most concerned about improving their mastery of IT risks and global accounting standards, but seem to be less worried about their expertise in enterprise risk management.
So say the results of the 2010 “Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey,” conducted by consulting firm Protiviti, which polled more than 700 chief audit executives in the public, private, government, and non-profit sector. Respondents were asked to rate their competency on more than two dozen areas of technical knowledge. Topping their concerns were the Guide to Assessment of IT risk (which also topped the ...