Beyond the Lines™

    Free 17-page planning paper

    Cover of the planning paper: Before You Sign Off Your 2027 Internal Audit Plan

    Before You Sign Off Your 2027 Internal Audit Plan

    Bring a wider view to your draft plan. Use BTL's questions and audit ideas to spot gaps, challenge assumptions and focus time where it can make the biggest difference.

    For everyone involved in planning: internal audit practitioners, managers and CAEs, plus colleagues in risk, controls and finance.

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    A useful final check on your draft plan

    • Questions to help you test the plan, with evidence to look for and clear business ownership.
    • Illustrative audit titles and scopes you can adapt, from AI and cyber to people, controls, data and change.
    • A way to choose what deserves a formal audit, advisory engagement, project assurance or time to build your team's skills.
    Tim Buckley

    I brought together themes from BTL content, client work, Leadership Signals and conversations with practitioners and leaders, including at conferences. The paper adds selected standards, official guidance and industry research to that BTL view. By Tim Buckley, Beyond the Lines.

    Read it beside your draft plan. Pick the ideas that fit your organisation. Discuss what to add, deepen, combine, defer or stop. You do not need a separate audit for every topic.

    For educational purposes, not formal advice. This is BTL's perspective, not an exhaustive risk list, a planning methodology or confirmation of compliance. Apply your own approved planning methodology and obligations.