Internal Audit Staffing and Audit Plan Report

This sample report can be customized and distributed to communicate an internal audit department's current staffing levels and audit plan progress. It includes information on areas of focus; audit hot spots; corporate governance training; public company audit procedures; and summaries for the internal audit plan, internal audit staffing, internal controls; and an internal audit report summary focused on a shared service center.

This report was prepared for a publicly traded company driving the internal audit department to focus on the following:

• Robust SOX testing, including entity-level controls
• Internal audit charter meeting standards outlined by The Institute of Internal Auditors
• Risk assessments (fraud, SOX, operational, IT, etc.)
• Core financial audits and operational/IT control reviews
• Ethics and accounting fraud response capabilities