Assurance mapping is a way of looking at risks and objectives for an organisation and mapping out how different organisational activities help (or don’t) to keep the risk or objective on track. In this episode, James Paterson explains how to undertake assurance mapping and the benefits of doing so – improved risk management, better resource deployment, less governance fatigue and more joined up reporting. Doing assurance mapping in a disciplined and structured way will provide you with a holistic perspective of what is going on in your organisation.

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No one likes writing audit reports and no one likes reading audit reports, but there are ways to reduce the pain and increase the gain. In this episode, Annabel Faulkner of EY and Sara I James of Getting Words to Work discuss how understanding and using plain language will increase the effectiveness of your report and reduce the risk of misunderstanding.

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In this episode, James Paterson – author of the book “Beyond the Five Whys” – talks about looking for underlying casual factors for why something happened with the aim of coming up with remedial actions, and also the need to take great care when analysing the facts and circumstances of a particular issue, or a near miss or a risk exposure that’s out of the agreed tolerance.

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Risk culture is about protecting and growing organisational value and ultimately helping your organisation to achieve its strategic objectives. However your risk culture is only as good as your organisational culture. In this episode, Annabel Faulkner of EY and Calene Van Zyl talk about the equation of process plus people and their behaviours equals the right business outcome, how you can build a risk culture in an organisation, and a real life client example bringing it all to life.

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As cyber threat actors continually evolve their attacks, an organisation can be considered to be doing well these days if it is only two steps behind bad actors. In the second of a two-part podcast, Lee Glover of Validera and Mike Hughes of Prism RA talk about recent developments in cyber risk including the evolution of the approach of threat actors from attacking individual organisations to attacking software companies that then distribute their bad code across the globe. Risk management is only possible if the controls implemented work as intended, so Internal Audit’s periodic assurance work on controls is vital, as is its involvement in IT projects from the outset.

ACCA’s report on Cyber and the CFO is a useful resource that you can download at https://bit.ly/cyberandthecfo. ISACA and Aston University have produced a briefing for the C-Suite on what the Board of Directors need to know to build business resilience. This briefing accompanies ACCA’s report and on page 6 of the document you’ll find eight key questions that company directors need to ask to ensure they are at least doing the fundamentals – you can access the ISACA briefing at https://bit.ly/isacabriefingcsuite.

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All organisations regardless of size have a digital presence that opens them up to risks. Those risks are continually increasing with advancements in technology and connectivity, and the emergence of cyber threat actors. In the first of a two-part podcast, Lee Glover of Validera and Mike Hughes of Prism RA talk about cyber risks – what they are and why they are a significant concern for organisations today.

ACCA’s report on Cyber and the CFO is a useful resource that you can download at https://bit.ly/cyberandthecfo. ISACA and Aston University have produced a briefing for the C-Suite on what the Board of Directors need to know to build business resilience. This briefing accompanies ACCA’s report and on page 6 of the document you’ll find eight key questions that company directors need to ask to ensure they are at least doing the fundamentals – you can access the ISACA briefing at https://bit.ly/isacabriefingcsuite.

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During the podcast, John mentions a webinar that he presented for ACCA about being a courageous internal auditor. You can register for listen to this free webinar on demand at https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3718600/86C1A837386FBB249E1AD2881E6F3BF5.

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The future of AI in business is exciting. To recruit and retain talent going forward, businesses will need to embrace AI. In the second part of a two-part podcast Si Mathavan, Darren Mascarenhas and Ewan Bolt of Johnston Carmichael look at how a business can move forward with AI once it is embedded in the business, including regularly monitoring and evaluating the performance of AI, and conducting regular bias audits.

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In the first of a two-part podcast Si Mathavan, Darren Mascarenhas and Ewan Bolt of Johnston Carmichael look at how you can set up AI in a business.

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