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What needs to happen to prevent Internal Audit from dying?

May 2022 was Internal Audit Awareness Month: As it wraps up, I’d like to take this moment to talk about the future of auditing and the role of people in auditing. This article is intended as a suggestion for how we can use the Awareness Month May to discuss important issues and derive much-needed action […]

zapliance turns into zapliance – only better

In our lastest blog post, you could already read a lot about what was going on at zapliance last year: We reflected, repositioned and realigned ourselves. The outcome: we sharpened our big picture, got to the core of our values and adapted our brand to the new target image. In the future, it will continue […]

Hype, Ready, Attack – 2021 at Zapliance

Anyone who has watched the reality game show “7 vs. wild” on YouTube knows this introduction. For everyone who doesn’t know it, it’s about seven contestants who must each endure at a lake in Sweden’s wilderness alone for seven days using only their clothes and up to seven items of their own choosing. Our year […]

The corroborated indications –
or the story of the pink Maserati

Let me tell you a story: A few years ago, we prepared an audit review at a company with zap Audit. It worked – albeit with a solid case of fraud. A company car was purchased at list price and sold in several steps from company code to company code throughout the entire group, each […]

The first step towards success: failure.

In recent months, the topic of cryptocurrency has been on everyone’s lips – even small investors who actually have little idea about the subject are jumping on the bandwagon and investing. But while the hype around cryptocurrencies is still new for many, I have been dealing with the topic for years – just like with […]

Resistance pointless: how to implement innovations in your company

Nowadays, innovations are essential for companies to survive. If you don’t constantly develop and try to be better than your competition, you will be left behind. So, it is all the more surprising that I keep noticing how much force companies and their employees sometimes resist innovation. Some time ago, when personal meetings were still […]

AI or no AI – that is the question here

Some time ago, a zapliance customer approached Alex and me with the idea of starting an Artificial Intelligence compliance project together. The goal of the project: to develop a plan on how to evaluate AI use cases – a kind of best practice, so to speak, to classify whether a use case can be rated […]

The DIIR Digital Days: Why we should all be Head of Error Management

A couple of weeks ago, I took part in the digital days of the German Institute of Internal Auditing (original: Deutsches Institute für Interne Revision – DIIR). An exciting congress where there were not only presentations on many current topics, but also the opportunity to exchange ideas with other participants despite the digital setting – […]

Learning by traveling: 3 tips to build intercultural competences

The world is becoming more and more connected, nothing new, right? – and we at zapliance are noticing this too. Our products are now used in over 50 countries worldwide! But globalization does not only affect the flow of goods – we auditors are also traveling the world more and more. But of course, this […]