Most respondents also indicated that the
implementation resulted in more interaction with the
CIO. This result is not surprising as internal auditors’
most relevant source of knowledge of their
company’s ERP system would likely be the CIO or
the CIO’s staff. Alternatively, this increase in
interaction could have been driven by job
requirements that put internal auditors together with
the CIO in planning meetings. The internal auditor’s
responsibility for insuring that certain control
modules are set up properly and the need to
continually test these functions could also have led to
more interaction with the CIO.