Government and public sector internal audit

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides a full range of internal audit services and works with many Government and public sector bodies. We tailor our high quality services to your needs, supporting your risk management and internal audit teams and helping them to work in the most effective way possible for your organisation.

Potential issues

• Ensuring that the internal audit section operates effectively and has the right number and quality of staff
• Supplementing the in-house internal audit team with specialist skills and resources
• Obtaining assurance that the internal control environment is sufficiently robust
• Confirming that processes and controls reflect the organisation’s business risks
• Ensuring adequate arrangements for detecting and preventing fraud and other irregularities
• Reviewing the auccess of projects and change management programmes
• Ensuring that controls over data are robust, dealing quickly with data loss incidents
• Making sure that efficiency gains are reported correctly
• Reviewing existing governanace arrangements at organisation, department and project level

PwC services

• Internal audit resource solutions, including full outsourcing or partnership arrangements, where we supplement in-house functions with management or specialist staff
• Advising on and assisting in the development of internal audit and risk management methodologies, including assessing whether the internal audit function is delivering effectively to stakeholders
• Supporting the internal audit function with audit methodologies, designed to enhance their work, including Group Systems and Global Best Practices
• Developing training packages for internal auditor staff
• Risk management consulting and risk assurance services
• Forensic services
• IT audit services
• Project assurance services
• Reviewing the effectiveness of internal audit functions against best practice (including GIAS, IIA and CIPFA standards and commercial best practice in the private sector