2009 General Audit Management (GAM) Conference - The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)

2009 General Audit Management (GAM) Conference: Session Detail


CS3-4: MONDAY MARCH 16, 2009, 2:25-3:35 p.m.
The Role of Internal Audit and Corporate Governance...
Richard E. Cascarino, CIA, CFE, CISM Chief Executive Officer, Richard Cascarino & Associates, Colorado
The Role of Internal Audit and Corporate Governance - What Went Wrong in 2008? By 2008 appropriate governance structures were supposed to be in place and Internal Audit was supposed to assist in ensuring widespread failure could not be systemic. What went wrong? Review the lessons learned. Discuss the ways in which governance must change. Gain an understanding of the much harder role internal auditing must take to be relevant in the new dispensation.

*NASBA - AUDITING*

Presenter Biography: Richard E. Cascarino, CIA, CFE, CISM Richard Cascarino has 26 years of experience in internal audit consulting and training worldwide. He chaired the Audit Committee of Johannesburg and was a member of the Audit Committee of the Department of Public Enterprises in South Africa. Cascarino is a visiting lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. He authored the books Internal Auditing: An Integrated Approach and Auditor's Guide to Information Systems Auditing. Cascarino is past president of The IIA South Africa and Southern African regional director of The IIA.