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Secure your place and an early bird discount a ECIIA’s European Conference on Governance, Risk and Control 2016 – Navigating in rough waters.
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The European Commission is striking a healthy balance between flexibility and hard rules in its reforms to the region’s corporate governance regime, according a report compiled by the ECIIA, The future of European governance: key views from key people.
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Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organisation’s operations. It helps an organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.
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The ECIIA's mission is to enhance corporate governance through the promotion of the professional practice of internal auditing. Be the voice of the profession at a European level and promote the profession in economically emerging countries.
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Internal audit has a central role to play in the future of corporate reporting as an adviser on, and a builder and consolidator of the reporting process itself, according to the ECIIA’s response to a consultation on the issue by the Federation of European Accountants (FEE). “Internal audit...
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Internal auditors can provide boards with help and assurance that the European Union’s new rules on tax reporting have been properly implemented in their enterprises, according to speakers at a recent co-hosted ECIIA event at the European Parliament on the issue. “As the third line of defence in...
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Audit committees must balance their ability to be independent with the right level of competence if they are to effectively challenge management, according to attendees at a recent event organised by European Confederation of Directors Associations (Ecoda) and Pwc. “Too much independence for audit committee members could come...
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Internal audit is now officially on a “blacklist” of services that accountancy firms are forbidden from providing to their statutory audit clients. The EU’s revised Statutory Audit Directive and its Regulation include measures aimed at strengthening auditor independence, compulsory auditor rotation, a broader role for the audit committee and...
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The combined effectiveness of the various regulatory reforms made in the financial sector following the crisis of 2007-8 are unknown, according to respondents to the EU’s recent review of the issue. Some attendees at a meeting in May, following the EU’s Call for Evidence on EU regulatory framework...
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The European Union has published the final draft of its long-awaited Directive on General Data Protection and the General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR) that enforces it – giving internal auditors two years to help organisations prepare. “The publication of these documents is the starting gun for companies to...
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Regulators should require regular, structured and ongoing dialogue between the competent authorities supervising insurers and the internal auditors working in them, the ECIIA has said in response to recent consultation by EIOPA (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority). That is because internal audit is well-placed to provide an...
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Internal audit can contribute most effectively to the successful implementation of the European Commission’s (EC) directive on non-financial reporting in organisations that have adopted the three lines of defence model of corporate governance, the ECIIA has told the EC. Independent internal audit departments can help organisations transform their...
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Internal auditors can help companies obtain a holistic and accurate view of their activities by helping to properly implement the European Commission’s new non-financial reporting Directive, said ECIIA Vice President Farid Aractingi at a recent conference organised by ECIIA, ACCA and Ecoda. “Internal auditors partner with external assurance...
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Europe’s current legislation on cybersecurity does not include robust corporate governance processes to help businesses manage cyber risks across their operations, ECIIA says. ECIIA calls on the European Commission (EC) to develop legislation and guidance frameworks to promote integrated, cross-departmental approaches to manage cyber risks, in its response...
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