Discovery Risk Management: Why Chief Audit Executives Need to Ensure Management and the Board Care

Sponsored By Protiviti

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Compliance & Governance > Board Memberships

Finance & Risk Management

Professional Services > Auditing

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Abstract:

As internal auditors take a fresh look at the complete landscape of risk for their companies, they are finding a new concern has surfaced: electronic discovery, or "e-discovery." With general counsel and top-level executives beginning to pay attention to the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which establish guidelines for e-discovery in civil suits brought to U.S. federal courts, the time is ripe for chief audit executives (CAEs) to also play a role in discovery risk management. With its systematic, disciplined approach to assessing the risks, effectiveness and efficiency of a company's operations, internal audit is in a strong position for assuming such a role.

Protiviti’s whitepaper outlines key issues for CAEs to consider in light of the amended FRCP and how they can raise awareness of e-discovery risks and ensure that management and the board consider them as part of the organization’s risk assessment and internal audit plan.

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Sponsored by: Protiviti

Released: June 18, 2008

Length: 7 pages

Format: PDF (231 kb)

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