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Why choose The OSTERIO Group for your peer review?

Public accounting firms are not your peers. They are trying to outsource you. It is not in your best interests to engage a public accounting firm to do a peer review. It will not be, in any way, shape or form, an objective assessment of your performance.

• Our reviews are focused on the value you produce for the costs you incur.
• We are business people. We run businesses. We will do a peer review of your department from a business perspective.
• We provide great value for money since we do not have a huge administrative overhead we have to fund.
• We perform most of the peer review remotely to further reduce your travel costs and disruptions to your office.
• We have set up internal audit departments, run internal audit departments, trained auditors, have professional auditing qualifications. We know internal auditing. It is our core business!

What does a The OSTERIO Group Peer Review of your internal audit department consist of:

Level One Peer Review:

You send a selection of work papers, reports, department structure and cost information to our office for review:

Benefits:

• No travel and accommodation cost incurred
• No disruption to daily audit activities
• Perfect for a prior peer review status check
• Minimal cost
• Report and findings/recommendations stay within your department. No one outside your department knows about the review or the results.

Level One Peer Review is the most popular. Some General Auditors call on them yearly as input for their regular "check and adjust" sessions.

Level Two Peer Review

All of the Level One Peer Review plus we interview your audit staff, your audit management team, assess the staffing, recruiting, planning, communicating and follow up policies of your department.

Benefits

• Report and findings/recommendations stay within your department. No one outside your department knows about the review or the results.
• Focus continues to be on the value you create for the total audit budget you incur.
• Only marginally more expensive that Level One Peer Review with most of the review work still performed in our offices from your documentation.
• Identifies delivery deficiencies and skill deficiencies that take time to correct.

 Level Three Peer Review

All of Level Two peer review plus we interview key executives from the company. We perform a "view from without - view from within" analysis.

Benefits:

• Can provide you with the mandate for changes you are contemplating
• Will meet and surpass any professional critique
• Includes presentations for you to give to executives and the audit committee

Risk Based Integrated Auditing™ departments:

You have unique operating issues that are not understood by other review groups:

• Self directed work team structures
• Heuristic instead of algorithmic methodology
• Team Success Objectives and hypotheses formulation
• Evidence to the Standard of Proof
• Subject matter experts that know your company’s business

We created the concept of RBIA. We trained your people. We know the peer review issues you are dealing with. We have a vested interest in ensuring that you are very successful!

Call us first for your peer review requirements! Call (770) 536-2898

RBIA PEER REVIEW CONSORTIUM

RBIA audit departments utilize teamwork in unique ways to produce dramatic increases in value and productivity. The differences in the RBIA™ approach make it difficult for traditional audit review groups to understand and appropriately review RBIA™ departments.

The RBIA™ Peer Review Consortium is a peer review team of internal auditors who practice the RBIA™ approach. The Consortium team understands the unique, value generation features of RBIA™ and how it varies from traditional internal audit approaches. The OSTERIO Group is currently scheduling peer reviews. Please call (770) 536-2898 or e-mail questions to form to discuss Consortium details and date availability.

The Best of the Best for 2006

RBIA Gold Medal
Ms. Martha Mimica, Florida Power & Light

RBIA Silver Medal
Mr. Bill Egan, Scotts Company

RBIA Bronze Medal
Mr. Dan Ashley, Qwest Communications

Congratulations!
prior year winners

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Updated: February 2, 2007