Assurance Without Limits: Rethinking QAIP - 7 October
Rethinking QAIP
What if QAIP wasn’t something you prepared for — but something you could prove continuously?
Why now
Internal Audit is asked to provide confidence where risks change overnight, assurance comes from multiple providers, and AI is accelerating business decisions.
A plan agreed in Q1 can be out of date by Q2. Assurance has to re-prioritise at the pace risk shifts.
Three lines plus external providers. Reliance has to be visible and defensible.
Decisions accelerate. Governance and assurance must keep pace without losing control.
The shift
The five questions
Practitioners from Internal Audit, Risk, Assurance and the Board perspective on what needs to change.
Can you demonstrate Internal Audit quality and conformance continuously — or do you rebuild the evidence when an assessment approaches?
When a major risk changes, can your assurance plan change fast enough?
Can you clearly see who provides assurance over every major risk — and where the gaps are?
If the Audit Committee challenges your reliance on another assurance provider, can you show why that reliance was justified?
As AI accelerates business decisions, can governance and assurance keep pace without losing control?
The conversation
Panellists are revealed over the coming weeks. Watch this space.
Moderator
Strategic Adviser, Risk & Internal Audit, SustainGRC · Former Chief Executive, SWAP Internal Audit Services
“Boards are not short of reports. They are short of reasons to trust the numbers in them.”
Panellist · Internal Audit
QAIP in practice, from the Chief Audit Executive’s chair.
Panellist · Risk & Assurance
Combined assurance and reliance, from the second line.
Panellist · Board
What an Audit Committee needs to see — and challenge.
Running order
Why periodic QAIP is under strain.
The five questions, practitioner by practitioner.
Live Q&A from the LinkedIn audience.
What to change in your function next.
Wed 7 October · 10:00 BST · LinkedIn Live