With more organizations exploring the concept of Combined Assurance, there have been many questions about how this relates to GRC. In this presentation, we will explore both concepts and discuss the differences between Combined Assurance and GRC so that you can consider and explore options that are most suited to the needs of your audit department and your organization as a whole. Learning Objectives: Understand the concepts behind Combined Assurance and GRC Discuss pros and cons for both Combined Assurance and GRC

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GRC and Combined Assurance:
What’s the Difference?
Toby DeRoche
MBA, CIA, CCSA, CRMA, CICA, CFE
Senior Market Development Consultant
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Speaker Bio
 Toby DeRoche MBA, CIA, CCSA, CRMA, CICA, CFE
 Internal Audit with a Fortune 100 corporation for 4 years
 Audit consultant for Wolters Kluwer for 7 years
 Works with organizations that are looking for solutions to address their audit and compliance needs.
 Assisted several hundred internal audit departments create, perform, and supervise financial, operational, and
compliance audits to evaluate control frameworks, financial systems, and operating procedures.
GRC vs Combined Assurance
Presentation Overview
With more organizations exploring the concept of
Combined Assurance, there have been many questions
about how this relates to GRC.
In this presentation, we will explore both concepts and
discuss the differences between Combined Assurance and
GRC.
GRC vs Combined Assurance

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Agenda
Understand the concepts behind
Combined Assurance and GRC
Discuss pros and cons for both
Combined Assurance and GRC
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POLLING QUESTION

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Assurance Providers
Assurance
Audit
ERM
SOX
InfoSec
EHS
Legal
Numerous departments within
an organization contribute to
governance
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Understanding Combined Assurance

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Combined Assurance
 Prevent management from being overwhelmed by information
and reports and succumbing to “audit fatigue”
 Provide better organizational governance
 Benefits:
 One voice and taxonomy across all governance bodies and functions in the
organization
 Efficiency in collecting and reporting information
 Common view of risks and issues across the organization
 More effective governance, risk, and control oversight
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Coordination and Reliance
IIA Standard 2050:
 The chief audit executive should share
information, coordinate activities, and consider
relying upon the work of other internal and
external assurance and consulting service
providers to ensure proper coverage and
minimize duplication of efforts.
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Coordination Approaches
 Integrated planning
 A comprehensive audit risk assessment process should consider:
 Current work planned by other assurance providers that can be
relied upon for audit coverage
 Past results from work completed by other assurance providers
 Integrated reporting
 Reporting on risk coverage and audit coverage
 Reporting on the control environment and issues found
 Comprehensive issue trending by multiple categorizations
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Overlapping Activities
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Audit planning
Risk
based
projects
Issue
categorization
Board
reporting

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Coordination Approaches
 Integrated planning
 A comprehensive audit risk assessment should consider:
 EHS risks
 InfoSec risks
 Legal risks
 Work planned by the other assurance providers can be relied
upon for audit coverage for these areas
 May need to use tools like a Risk Coverage Map
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Coordination Approaches
 Integrated planning
 CAE and other assurance groups should submit summaries of their
respective planned audit activities, staffing plan, and budget to senior
management and the board
 Combining this presentation helps stakeholders better understand the
scope of the work and planned audit coverage
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Coordination Approaches
 Integrated reporting
 Co-presenting internal audit and other audit results will enable
management to focus and set priorities for the organization.
Reduces “audit fatigue”
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Coordination Approaches
 Audit activity alignment
 Align the structure of risk and control assessment
 Align documentation standards
 Align project and board reporting structure
 Align issue categorization
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POLLING QUESTION
Leverage Technology
 Look for systems to integrate the audit effort
 Shared risk assessment tools
 Shared control monitoring tools
 Shared analytics tools
 Shared documentation tools
 Shared reporting tools for aggregation
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Understanding GRC
What is GRC?
GRC is the process of integrating governance efforts, risk
management, and control implementation an organization puts in place
to ensure success.
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What GRC is NOT?
 GRC is not software
 GRC solutions are not a magic bullet that creates governance
 Good GRC software should open communication lines across
departments
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GRC Goals
 Reduced costs
 Reduced redundant activities
 Streamline operations
 Capture better data more
efficiently
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GRC Challenges
 Hard to define
 Hard to achieve integration
 Hard to maintain consistency
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Leverage Technology
 Look for systems to integrate the functions
 Shared strategic objectives
 Shared risk assessment tools
 Shared control monitoring tools
 Shared reporting tools for aggregation
 Shared data for analytics
 Allow integrated individuality
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POLLING QUESTION
What’s the difference?
 GRC is an alignment of
business and risk functions
 GRC is typically a
management function
 GRC should include internal
audit
 Combined Assurance is an
alignment of audit functions
 Combined Assurance is an audit
function
 Combined Assurance is lead by
internal audit

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