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Internal Audit: Helping Organizations Manage Risk

INTERNAL AUDIT: HELPING ORGANIZATIONS MANAGE RISK

Cost Free
Presentation Length 1.0 hour

Recorded DateApril 29, 2021
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Subject AreaAuditing
Course LevelBasic
Course Description

What is an internal audit, and why is it necessary for your organization? These questions and more will be answered during our advisory risk briefing, where experts from our Advisory Services team will explain the advantages of having an internal audit function, review types of audits and services, and give you a look into the future of internal audits. 

Learning Objectives:


  • Define the function of an internal audit 

  • Determine how to leverage the internal audit resources, skill sets, and technology capabilities within your organization

  • Identify the current and future role of the internal audit function in assisting in the management of organizational risks

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Amy Ribick

Brown Smith Wallace
Partner, Advisory Services
aribick@bswllc.com
(314) 983-1387

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Amy is a Partner in the Brown Smith Wallace Advisory Services practice, where she provides internal audit services, including compliance and control documentation and testing for clients. Amy also assists clients with strategic planning initiatives, including enterprise risk management and overall efficiency and effectiveness reviews.

Amy specializes in serving clients in the financial services industry, including compliance, internal and operational audit engagements. Amy consults on internal and external client business processes and accounting procedures to facilitate process improvements and compliance with laws and regulations.

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Keenan T. McKinney, CIA, CCA

Brown Smith Wallace
Manager, Advisory Services
kmckinney@bswllc.com
(314) 983-1316

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Keenan is a Manager in the Brown Smith Wallace Advisory Services practice. His primary area of expertise is assessing and testing internal controls systems, evaluating processes, and working with management to develop recommendations for improvement. Keenan has worked with Brown Smith Wallace for over six years. 

Keenan has more than 25 years of internal auditing and project management experience. He has more than ten years of government auditing experience, including serving as an internal audit manager for two years; working for accounting/professional services firms for six years; and working for a pipeline rehabilitation company for three years, where he served just over a year as an internal audit manager.

Keenan’s work experience includes internal audits, process improvement reviews, construction audits, SOX reviews, and internal audit Quality Assessment Reviews for various clients in multiple industries. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Construction Auditor (CCA).

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Christine Pedroli

Brown Smith Wallace
Manager, Advisory Services
cpedroli@bswllc.com
(314) 983-1261

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Christine Pedroli is a Manager in Advisory at Brown Smith Wallace. Her experience centers around data analysis, internal audit, financial statement and benefit plan audits, self-funded health plan and TPA audits, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering monitoring, and process improvement. She is a member of the St. Louis Galvanize User Group and the Institute of Internal Auditors. Christine is also an ACL Certified Data Analyst.       

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Alan DeVaughan

Brown Smith Wallace
Manager, Advisory Services
adevaughan@bswllc.com
(314) 824-5278

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Alan is an IT Audit Manager in the Brown Smith Wallace Advisory Services practice. With a background in IT audit and network administration, Alan provides IT audit services and a wide range of skills to the firm’s clients. He serves many industries, including manufacturing & distribution, technology, financial services, education, health care, and non-profit.

About Our Presenter

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Brown Smith Wallace – an independent member firm of Moore Stephens North America – is a nationally recognized, top 100, full-service CPA and business advisory firm in Missouri with more than 300 employees. The firm serves its long-term base of family owned, private companies with audit, accounting and tax services as well as a wide variety of business consulting services.

We provide many of the St. Louis area’s largest companies with value-added consulting services such as business performance consulting; business valuations; data analysis; cybersecurity; employee benefit plan audits; independent insurance consulting; internal audit, IT audit and other related risk services; litigation support; transaction advisory services; and specialty tax services such as family wealth planning, state and local taxes (including sales and use tax consulting), credits and incentives, property tax and international tax services.

Brown Smith Wallace serves a wide variety of industries with particular expertise in broker-dealers, captive insurance companies, construction, financial institutions, health care, high-net-worth families and individuals, insurance companies, manufacturing and distribution, not-for-profit organizations, private equity firms, public sector, real estate, retail and startups.