CIPFA Audit Viewpoint

In this issue: CRC compliance and the role for internal audit; panel news; training and events.

In this issue: driving leadership performance; the fourth line of defence – internal audit culture; CIPFA audit update 2011.

In this issue: internal auditing during a period of austerity; how long is the ideal 'arms length'; lean auditing.

In this issue: coverage of the annual CIPFA Audit Conference, including extracts from the event and the latest news from the Audit Panel.

In this issue: Audit Viewpoint from the archives; Panel biographies; How has working in the field of Internal Audit changed both professionally and personally for me since 1995?; Systems Based Auditing - fifteen years on; Your opportunity to influence public sector audit policy.

In this issue: Do we need specialist contract auditors; A 'top-down' approach to procurement and contract audit; Obituary of Pat Costello; information on CIPFA training courses for audit of procurement and contracts.

In this issue: the Internal Audit Transformation Project: Reshaping internal audit across government; an update on the CIPFA Statement on the Role of the Head of Internal Audit; Review of the year.

In this issue: how internal audit should respond as a profession to the challenges ahead; CIPFA Better Governance Forum and Effective Internal Audit; differences in public services between the UK and France and where the future lies for internal audit in the nouvel regime.

In this issue: the case for shared services internal audit provision; how audit should respond to personal budgets; an update on the CIPFA Statement on the Role of the Head of Internal Audit in Public Service Organisations.

In this issue: coverage of the annual CIPFA Audit Conference, including extracts from the event and the latest news from the Audit Panel.

In this issue: internal audit's role in information handling and protection; increasing the use of SBA to mitigate enterprise risk; an update on the CIPFA Statement on the Role of the Head of Internal Audit in Public Service Organisations.

In this issue: the rising demand on internal audit services as a result of the changing economic environment; Whole of Government Accounts update; CIPFA's Statement on the role of the Head of Internal Audit in public service organisations.