Global Internal Audit Standards Conformance Checklist

What it is

The Global Internal Audit Standards are organized in five domains: purpose of internal auditing, ethics and professionalism, governing the internal audit function, managing the internal audit function, and performing internal audit services. They include fifteen principles across the last four domains. This workbook turns that structure into a self-assessment.

Each principle has plain-language prompts, written for this template and not taken from the standards, with columns for evidence, a rating, the gap, the action, owner and date. A summary shows conformance by domain. Add rows for the specific requirements you assess from the published standards.

When to use it

• For the annual self-assessment under the quality assurance and improvement program.
• Before an external assessment.
• When moving the function from the earlier standards to the 2024 standards.

What’s inside

• Checklist by domain and principle with two prompts each and spare rows
• Evidence, rating, gap, action, owner and target date
• Summary by domain with percent conforming and checks on missing actions

Standard cited

This template follows IIA Global Internal Audit Standards (2024). It is written in our own words, except for phrases the standard requires the document to contain, with [bracketed placeholders] for client details, amounts in USD and dates as MM/DD/YYYY. Check it against the current standard and your firm’s methodology before use.

Questions

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Last updated 11/05/2026. All free templates.