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All Things Internal Audit: Generative AI Uses for Internal Audit
In this episode, Grant Ostler, Industry Principal at Workiva, and Sue King, Partner and SOX Solutions Lead at KPMG, delve into the practical applications of generative AI in the workplace and its impact on internal auditors.

This conversation covers:

-AI compliance challenges
-Preparing for AI integration
-Emerging trends and technologies
-Governance in AI implementation
-Maximizing AI technology
-Future directions of AI in audit

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All Things Internal Audit: The Data Dilemma
 
In this episode, Jim Pelletier, Senior Product Manager at Wolters Kluwer TeamMate, discusses how internal auditors can position themselves to provide assurance on all aspects of data within their organizations, particularly as new technologies and regulations will increasingly rely on data. Key to sound data governance is ensuring that data is accurate, complete, reliable, and relevant.

This conversation covers:
 
-Critical importance of data quality in internal audit
-Challenges to maintaining data quality
-Internal audit's role in assessing and validating data quality
-Risk assessment processes integration
-Strategies for audit leaders to engage with stakeholders
-Data governance issues
-Artificial intelligence and ESG reporting on data quality

This episode brought to listeners from The IIA and Wolters Kluwer.  


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Workiva's VP of Global ESG and CSO, Mandi McReynolds, discusses the evolving regulatory landscape for sustainability. With an emphasis on the necessity for collaboration among various teams within companies, including finance, risk, and ESG, to effectively navigate these new regulations.

This conversation covers:
 
-Compliance challenges
-Preparing for new sustainability regulations
-Governance
-Leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence
- The future direction and impact of sustainability reporting requirements and regulations
-Internal audit’s role

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Lexica AI CFO Jannies Burlingame discusses her upcoming presentation at the IIA's Analytics, Automation and AI Virtual Conference with Senior Manager of Content Strategy and Development Robert Pérez. The conversation covers:
Understanding data bias and misinterpretation Leveraging the benefits of Explainable AI (XAI) More!

Harold Silverman, IIA Senior Director of CAE and Corporate Governance Engagement, and Warren Hersh, IIA Director of Quality Services, discuss the importance of having a strategy for quality assessments in 2024 as it relates to the new Global Internal Audit Standards. The two former chief audit executives delve into new performance requirements under the updated Standards as well as options for scheduling quality assessments under the existing Standards (2017) or the new Standards.

In the latest podcast, loose adherence to policies on bids and tenders and a tip from a concerned employee lead internal auditors to uncover a bid rigging scheme at a renewable energy developer. Listen to “Tenders in the Wind.”