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Internal Audit

Gaps in controls rarely announce themselves. Aprio’s internal audit teams help you find them early by strengthening compliance, streamlining processes, and freeing budget for the work that moves your strategy forward.

Governance. Risk. Compliance.

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Effective internal audits do more than demonstrate compliance. They also provide insights that help you manage risk, strengthen controls, and drive continuous improvement.

As your internal audit partner, Aprio gives you the depth of a national firm without the overhead of one. We leverage proven processes and technology-enabled tools to create tailored audit solutions that strengthen your operations and governance. Our specialists will work with your team to address strategic audit goals and verify that your risk management and control processes are all operating effectively. Whether you need to fill a gap on your team, stand up an internal audit function from scratch, or rethink one that has stopped adding value, we build the solution around your risk profile, not a template.

Our Focus Areas

Aprio’s internal audit solutions cover a full spectrum of services designed to strengthen controls, manage risk, and support your governance objectives, including:

  • Internal Audit Co-Sourcing

    Add specialized skills to your team exactly where you need them — IT, cyber, analytics, regulatory — without adding headcount. You keep ownership of the function; we bring the depth and the outside perspective.

  • Internal Audit Outsourcing

    We serve as your internal audit department end to end: risk assessment, audit plan, fieldwork, and board-ready reporting, with the independent guidance your audit committee can rely on.

  • Audit Committee Advisory Services

    Sharper risk reporting, clearer escalation, and governance practices that give your committee confidence they are seeing the whole picture, not just the parts that are easy to measure.

  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance

    Readiness assessments through steady state testing, with automation and analytics applied to reduce the cost and disruption of your control environment year over year.

  • Technology Enabled Audit & Continuous Monitoring

    We apply data analytics and automation to test full populations instead of samples, monitor key controls continuously, and surface exceptions while there is still time to act.

  • Quality Assurance & IIA Standards Conformance

    External quality assessments, independent validation of self-assessments, and peer review to keep your function aligned with the IIA’s Global Internal Audit Standards.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the three types of internal audits?

The most common internal audit types include:

  • Compliance Audit: A compliance audit is an assessment or examination to assess whether the organization’s processes, policies, controls and/or systems are in conformity and adherence to regulatory, industry or contractual requirements.
  • Operational Audit: An operational audit is a review that focuses primarily on the internal controls of key processes, procedures, or systems. The main objective of operational audits is to improve efficiency, effectiveness, accuracy and productivity of the operation.
  • Financial Audit: A financial internal audit is an objective examination and evaluation of an organization’s financial reporting process to confirm controls are in place to ensure financial records are a fair and accurate representation of the transactions they claim to represent.
What is assurance in internal audit

According to the Institute of Internal Auditors, the accepted definition of “assurance” is an objective examination of evidence for the purpose of providing an independent assessment on governance, risk management and control processes for an organization.

What is the difference between internal audit assurance and consulting services?

Internal audit assurance services are designed to provide assurance that the organization’s internal controls are operating effectively and that consulting services focus on providing advice to help the organization solve business problems, improve operations and achieve defined strategic goals.

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