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Equity and Transition into Broader Key highlights:
Leadership Roles • Mr. Anirban Dasgupta emphasized the
• How can an internal auditor build professional importance of understanding business and
equity and transition beyond audit into delivering meaningful insights, highlighting that
broader leadership roles? strong communication can help auditors build
professional equity.
Tech Takeover – Is Internal Audit Ready?
• Is automation truly making internal audit • Mr. Burzin Dubash compared the auditor’s role
more effective, and is the profession in line to that of a coach in football — fair, firm, and
to achieve the promise of automation and strategically involved in driving performance.
analytics in auditing? He also suggested using an “Internal Audit
ChatGPT” tool for audit planning, which could
• If an AI tool audited a company today, what generate audit scope, risks, procedures, and data
would it find that humans often miss? requirements.
Risk, Uncertainty & The Unexpected • Collaboration with management and
• What’s the biggest blind spot that internal stakeholders was identified as key to rebranding
audit has today that could lead to a corporate IA and changing its perception from a watchdog
disaster? to a value partner.
Bridging the Trust Gap • Mr. Pankaj Kumar, CAE – CEAT Tyres Ltd.,
spoke about using technology to move from
• How do you balance being the “watchdog” sampling audits to 100% reviews and leveraging
and the “trusted advisor” without becoming AI to automate concurrent audit areas. He
the “corporate villain”? stressed the importance of skill development for
using AI effectively in audits.
• Have audit reports evolved over the last two
decades, or are we still highlighting the same • Mr. Vivek Shukla, CAE – KEC International Ltd.,
types of issues? If internal auditors could only shared that interrogation during whistleblower
measure impact in business terms (revenue, investigations is the most challenging part and
efficiency, etc.), how would their reports requires strong evidence and coordination
change? among IA, forensic, and legal teams
ESG About the RPG Group
• As businesses face increasing pressure to walk
the talk on ESG, is internal audit merely a RPG Enterprises, established in 1979, is one of India’s
spectator or the referee ensuring real impact? fastest growing business groups with a turnover
How can IA go beyond compliance to provide of US$ 4.8 billion. The group has diverse business
meaningful assurance on ESG commitments? interests in the areas of Infrastructure, Tyres, Pharma,
IT and Specialty as well as in emerging innovation
Whistle Blowing led technology businesses.
• Which of the processes in the WB investigation
is the most critical and challenging one? The Assurance and Internal Audit department
at RPG Enterprises is headed by Mr. Mr. Suresh
The Talent Conundrum Mathew, Executive Director – Chairman’s Office.
• Why do so few business leaders want their Mr. Anirban Dasgupta, Group Head - Assurance &
best people to rotate into internal audit, and Internal Audit, manages all the activities relating to
how do we change that? Assurance & Internal audit through a team of CAEs
of various group companies and reports into Mr.
• Are we seeing a thinning talent pipeline in Mathew.
the profession? What can the profession do to
attract top talent?
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