Kaya Kwinana: 6 books

Internal audit plans and audit plans are nowadays incorrectly viewed as being equivalent. This book helps internal auditors and organisations to develop internal audit plans conforming to the mandatory International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) elements. An appropriate internal audit plan...

The Risk Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) has been so debased, at the highest level in the profession, that it is now perceived as the same thing as Risk Based Auditing (RBA). This book shows that an internal audit engagement conducted in accordance with the mandatory IPPF guidance constitutes RBIA. The lid is lifted on the implicit, and yet most relevant, risks addressed by such engagements.

Everybody appears to agree on what risk appetite is. Even so, this is a concept which, despite that agreement, is one of the main causes of the failure of internal control in the private and public sector. This book shows (a) how to develop the risk appetite (b) when - [i.e. at what stage of the internal control process], and (c) the benefits of implementing the concept properly.

There is something wrong when internal audit plans are in effect "audit plans". Such "audit plans" result in fatally flawed internal auditing in organisations. This book introduces new methods of developing internal audit plans to efficiently and effectively determining appropriate...

It is to the shame of the internal audit profession that one finds so many differences in an understanding of internal auditing and so contrary views to the mandatory International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) elements. Everyone in every organisation needs to understand internal auditing...

The external audit engagement planning methodology is the worst thing that can happen to an internal audit engagement. This book shows (a) what issues to address in opening meetings, how to develop (b) engagement objectives, (c) engagement scopes and (d) engagement work programs and how to allocate...