Like many organizations today, colleges and universities are striving to improve transparency into their services, operations and finances for stakeholders and the public. There also is growing interest among institutions of higher education to enhance risk management through better controls over their many systems, processes and procedures, and to promote the importance of accountability among all professionals. Within these organizations, internal audit is playing a key and often leading role in working with administrators, management and boards to establish stronger corporate governance and internal controls and derive the many resulting benefits in terms of organizational performance and cost efficiencies.

Protiviti has compiled profiles of top internal audit performers in higher education to detail the policies and practices they are employing to realize the benefits of strong governance and controls. This resource guide looks at the issues and challenges they are addressing and the value internal audit provides in addressing them. The academic institutions profiled in this publication include Duke University, Harvard University and Stanford University, among others. These profiles will be of interest to university leadership and boards, as well as to internal audit professionals inside and outside of higher education who are interested in learning how “best in class” internal audit departments operate.

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