14. The internal audit activity must evaluate the effectiveness and contribute to the improvement of risk management processes. With respect to evaluating the adequacy of risk management processes, internal auditors most likely should
A. Recognize that organizations should use similar techniques for managing risk.
B. Determine that the key objectives of risk management processes are being met.
C. Determine the level of risks acceptable to the organization.
D. Treat the evaluation of risk management processes in the same manner as the risk analysis used to plan engagements.
Answer (B) is correct.
REQUIRED: The responsibility of internal auditors for assessing the adequacy of risk management processes.
DISCUSSION: Internal auditors need to obtain sufficient and appropriate evidence to determine that key objectives of the risk management processes are being met to form an opinion on the adequacy of risk management processes (PA 2120-1, para. 8).
Answer (A) is incorrect. Risk management processes vary with the size and complexity of an organization's business activities.
Answer (C) is incorrect. Management and the board determine the level of acceptable organizational risks.
Answer (D) is incorrect. Evaluating management's risk processes differs from the internal auditors' risk assessment used to plan an engagement, but information from a comprehensive risk management process is useful in such planning.