Audit & Risk

Essential to success

The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) recently published an amended version of “Essential to Success”, the booklet that reviews the IIA’s strategy and achievements over the last financial year.

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In 2010, the IIA set out its vision for the internal audit profession, developing a three-year strategy to deliver this vision and publishing “Essential to Success” to report on its progress.

The IIA’s vision – to ensure that its value is properly recognised as essential to an organisation’s success – focuses on:

  • Developing the profession
  • Communicating the value of the profession
  • Empowering the leaders of the profession
  • Growing membership and improving member satisfaction
  • Focussing on customers
  • Sharpening our commercial focus
  • Raising our effectiveness.

Click here to download your copy of “Essential to Success”.
 
A copy of the publication has also been sent out to each member with the September/October 2012 print edition of Audit & Risk magazine. 

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