Risk & Compliance Services

Over the last few years, the need to manage risks has become recognised as an essential part of good corporate governance. This has put organisations under increasing pressure to identify all the business risks they face and to explain how they manage them. In fact, the activities involved in managing risks have been recognised as playing a central and essential role in maintaining a sound system of internal control. While the responsibility for identifying and managing risks belongs to management, one of the key roles of internal audit is to provide assurance that those risks have been properly managed. We believe that a professional internal audit activity can best achieve its mission as a cornerstone of governance by positioning its work in the context of the organisation's own risk management framework.



Deficiency

Our compliance audit also uncovers intentional or unintentional weaknesses or deficiencies in a compliance program. The many and ever-changing standards and regulations with which the business must comply can sometimes cause compliance programs to be weak or unintentionally deficient. Less ethical business owners, however, may simply choose not to comply, opting instead to hope the audit doesn’t catch the deficiency. The audit process typically includes a review of compliance policies and practices, random transaction sampling and direct observation, and it is highly effective in identifying weaknesses and deficiencies and determining the business’s intent.