Internal Of An Internal Communication Audit

The IT staffs were certain that the existing SAP software will provide all necessary computer support. They believed that even if the SAP would not fit their business processes precisely, it may be an investment that provides greater long-term flexibility and better solutions to the company’s problem.

Hefty Hardware Case Study has two main issues they were the communication gap between the business and IT departments. Due to this misunderstandings business department complained on IT department on taking long time on the project. After the analysis, there were two solutions provided to unwind the two problems. They are to inculcate unity in the teams in both departments by conducting training sessions which would help them to work together towards the goals of the organization. Other solution was to conduct effective communication sessions which would help the two departments in keeping pace with the current and past issues and helps them to understand what’s happening in the organization. In this way even the IT department can improve their

The objective of this study was to compare WestJet’s IT cost, resources, and budget to the industry standards. The observation was: WestJet’s IT was right on target regarding the total number of employees, but there were problems regarding the IT employees, firstly there were many IT employees who started their careers with WestJet and they only knew “The WestJet IT way”. Also, there was a mismatch in the number of employees within the skill sets as compared to other similar sized companies. System operations and procedure were somewhat matching to the industry standard but were not up to the mark. IT budget was the main concern, every month meetings were scheduled among the VPs of business unit and VP of IT regarding the negotiation of the priorities and resources, but business unit VPs were not able to prioritize the things which resulted in pressure on IT unit that eventually caused longer time in the execution of projects. The IT organization at WestJet was Structured as per the IT’s group’s conventional internal function of planning, Building, operating, maintaining and

The IT department of North American Federal Government, a real-estate and property management firm, submitted their proposal for data warehousing in their department. The proposal was sanctioned with an amount of $800,000 with duration of 8 months. In reality, the project exceeded the time of 8 months and lasted for two years. The reasons were business unit stretched the analysis time from one and half months to nine months. Another reason was business unit kept expanding he planned user base. Over a period of six months, the planned manpower increased from 200 to 2500. A formal approval for the use of technology from the Federal Government took a year. But the project was canceled by the IT director

You are the internal audit senior responsible for conducting an assurance engagement of the XYZ Company payroll process. This process has not been audited for three years and, as such, is due in the normal audit cycle. There have been no significant changes since the previous audit, that is, there were no system changes, no reorganization of personnel, and no substantive procedural changes. However, during the last assurance engagement, the internal audit function identified several observations, some of which were considered significant. The significant observations related to:

A company might decide to establish an internal audit department because an effective and independent internal audit department add values and improve effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes. It also helps prevent and detect the frauds.

The case presents that Vince Patton, the executive VP (IT department) of RR communications has been with the organization for a long time. It then shows the back story of IT circumstances it has been facing in past and to date. The first problem of RR communications was it did not have one central IT system; each division had their own system, databases and customer service center. Each division had full power to develop and implement new projects and make decisions without involving any other division members as well as the company head. Due to this decentralized system; RR communications was facing problems such as customers reporting having multiple receipts and would prefer one receipt for their all transactions. Having separate

Westjet is incapable of identifying the priority of the projects as well as the resources arrangement from monthly meetings, which results in a mismatch in the views of Vice Presidents of business units and the Vice President of IT department. For IT department, there are not enough resources for such many projects undertaken due to the inability of business VPs to prioritize the projects. The overburdening of IT department results in the delay of project delivery time. On the other hand, business VPs were disappointed that the IT department seldom meets the deadlines of projects undertaken. As Chan (2002) classified, it is a strategic business-IS misalignment, which concentrates on the fit of the priorities and activities.

The role played by the IT in the company to the rest of the organization is reactive to business conditions rather than a proactive approach. IT has been busy establishing several IT processes, policies, and projects in order to catch up with current demand from customers, and has been relying on the “diving catch” approach of finishing things at the very last minute.

The paper begins with the general discussion of the importance of internal communication in an organisation best practices and how it affects the organisation behaviour. It also explores the internal communication models and the theoretical models of the key factors for the Procter & Gamble.

This report was commissioned to examine the effectiveness of internal communication of a reputed consulting firm that has widespread reach on domains such as media intelligence, PR, consulting and training to undergraduate students. The research process included conducting in depth interviews with two of the department heads and also with a reporting subordinate. Other sources include organizational statements posted online and the behavioural aspects of employees as monitored before and during the interview process.

There are communication concerns between business and IT sectors. The relationship confidential the whole association does not work adequately, Hefty does not arise up with a composite way that initiatives both IT and commercial organization, hereafter ignoring to proposal a solid IT methodology.

The purpose of an audit is to enhance of confidence in the financial statements. An auditors opinion validates this purpose.

The company employees: Implemented a new system may create problem with employees such as resistance. In this case it seems that they didn’t adapt their way of working with the new It System. Part of this problem may be due to the complexity of the system itself but there is also a part due to a lock in their intention to really understand the new system. They were also too passive, they didn’t communicate about the problem they were facing. It should have been resolved faster. There was also a problem with the storage, they kept on ignoring the main storage rules and put a complete mess, which was a difficulty for the IT system.

The role of internal audit is to provide independent declaration that an organization’s threatadministration, governance and internal control processes are functioning effectively. Internal auditors deal with concerns that are essentially important to the existence and success of any organization. Unlike external auditors, they aspect beyond financial possibilities and statements to reflect wider problems such as the organization’s reputation, development, its power on the location and the approach it treats its organizations.In summary, internal accountantssupport organizations to thrive.