EVENTS

***Booking now***

CIPFA’s NW Region Audit, Risk and Governance Group is holding its annual CPD weekend event on 23rd & 24th March 2012 at the Marriot Hotel, Preston. This exciting event will provide you with a range of views, practical advice, tips and guidance which can be used to enhance your working practices and to raise the value and reputation of your services during, potentially, the most challenging and turbulent working times most of us are likely to experience.

Whatever your current position or experience, you should not miss this opportunity to join fellow professionals and expert practitioners in exploring how to address some of the key issues and emerging challenges. The programme has been designed to assist internal auditors, risk managers and fraud investigators across the public sector in their CPD.

To download the programme and for booking information, please visit http://www.cipfa.org.uk/regions/nw/audit_group.cfm

Audit Conference- Nottingham 23rd & 24th of May 2012 &45; Save the date

NEWS

Cliff Nicholson Award 2012

The Cliff Nicholson Award for Innovation and Excellence is an annual award that is presented for outstanding work in the field of audit. The closing date for this year is 9 March 2012. For more details and a nomination form click here.

UPDATE: UK Public Sector Internal Audit Standards Advisory Board Application Process

A pleasing number of high quality applications have been received for the positions of Independent Chair of the IASAB as well as for practitioner member vacancies. Shortlisting will occur this week and successful applicants who have been selected for interview shall be informed by the end of January. (Interviews will take place in the first two weeks of February.)

For further information on the work and governance of the proposed IASAB, please contact keeley.lund@cipfa.org.uk

CIPFA Audit Panel Meeting 2 November 2011
The CIPFA Audit Panel met on 2 November 2011. Please click here to download a note of the proceedings.

Audit Panel Points of Interest

At the November Panel meeting, it was agreed that the main points of interest arising would be shared on the Panel website. This will help members and other public sector audit practitioners keep up to date with current discussions and areas of important or concern.

Please click here to view the 11 topics. For further questions, please contact Keeley Lund or Matthew Allen.

CIPFA Statement on the role of the Head of Internal Audit in public service organisations

The pan-public services Statement on the Role of the HIA follows our Statement on the role of the CFO. We issued a draft Statement for consultation in May 2010 and received a wide range of responses. The final Statement (from December 2010) is available to download here:

Please note that there will not be any sector-specific versions of the Statement and the above version is applicable to all sectors.

Procurement and Contract Audit Forum
CIPFA’s Procurement and Contract Audit Forum (PACAF) was established in 2008 to facilitate the identification, development and widespread adoption of best practice in procurement and contract audit. The objectives of the Forum include promoting the required audit skills through training and development opportunities, sharing of knowledge through the PACAF network, and the identification and discussion of relevant topical issues.

The work of the Forum is steered by an executive of 15 members who each represent a sector or region within the UK. The executive meets three times a year and is supported by a growing network of ‘interested parties’ who are kept up to date with the Forum’s work.

The current work of the Forum includes the establishment of a training package (consisting of seven independent but interlocking two-day modules), the publication of a range of standard high-level audit programmes (which will be available free to download), running an annual conference, and publications on the subjects of collaborative procurement, and the review of PFI agreements.

For more information on the work of the Panel, please contact Keeley Lund at keeley.lund@cipfa.org.uk or Ken Odgers at ken@cal.org.uk

Audit Viewpoint is now online
CIPFA’s magazine for the audit practitioner, Audit Viewpoint, communicates expert, practical advice on a wide range of audit issues. Each edition discusses topical issues, introducing new concepts and disseminating good practice. It is also used to update readers on the activities of CIPFA's Audit Panel. 

In response to your feedback seeking a more user friendly, accessible, and environmentally sustainable format, Audit Viewpoint is now an online resource, visit www.cipfa.org.uk/auditviewpoint to find out more.

(Posted 9 February 2010)

Guidance on Reviewing the System of Internal Audit
As part of its programme of work to support audit professionals, CIPFA's Audit Panel is publishing Guidance on Reviewing the System of Internal Audit. We are well aware that this has taken a long time to publish but we have been concerned to consult widely on this key issue. Our consultations have led to significant debate on the issue and CIPFA is grateful to all consultees and other contributors for the thoughtful input. There will, no doubt, continue to be debate around what should be included in the System and the Audit Panel would be pleased to receive any further views that practitioners have on the subject. In the first instance, these should be addressed to the secretary to the Audit Panel matthew.allen@cipfa.org