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IIA Research Aligns with 10 Significant Challenges Facing Internal Auditors

During the August 24 – 26, 2009 Internal Audit Solutions for Tough Times Conference (including Fraud and Technology) in San Diego, CA, IIA President and CEO Richard F. Chambers, CIA, CGAP, CCSA, discussed 10 of the significant challenges that he believes internal auditors will face during the coming year.

To show you how closely aligned IIA Research Foundation projects are to those challenges, here is a list of the “Top 10 Challenges for Auditors in 2010” and recently released research (or research in progress) that directly corresponds to those challenges.

Top 10 Challenges for Auditors in 2010	Recently Released and Upcoming Research
1. Aligning internal audit coverage to meet new expectations.	Performance Auditing: A Measurement Approach - 2nd Edition
2. Realigning skills to address new requirements.	Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL): What's in it for Internal Auditors (Downloadable Report) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): What Internal Auditors Need to Know (Downloadable Report)
3. Addressing internal auditing’s role in assessing risk management.	Why Enterprise Risk Management is Vital: Learning from Company Experiences with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Compliance (Downloadable Report)
4. Leveraging technology to achieve greater efficiencies.	Auditing Information Technology--A Guide to Planning, Performing and Presenting IT Audits (In Progress)
5. Coping with diminished resources	Effective Sizing of Internal Audit Activities: A Conceptual Model Beyond Benchmarking (In Progress)
6. Demonstrating value and adding to the bottom line.	Quality Assessment Manual, 6th Edition
7. Maintaining stature with the audit committee.	Audit Committee Reporting: A Guide for Internal Auditing
8. Developing a continuous focus on risks.	Threat! Managing Risk in a Hostile World
9. Maintaining a focus to prevent and detect fraud.	Using Expert Knowledge Structures to Design Fraud Risk Decision Aids (Downloadable Report)
10. Implementing the new International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF).	Implementing the International Professional Practices Framework, 3rd Edition

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