Audit & Advisory Services publishes AIM, a periodic newsletter filled with a combination of original content and articles from other sources. All are written and selected to help you and your staff identify and manage upcoming or high-impact risks and, along the way, get to know more about A&AS and our activities.
Past issues
- Vol. 1: System Access and You – Information security: What common things we’ve seen and how they can be addressed.
- Vol. 2: Measuring Up - Using Benchmarking to Increase Operational Efficiency – Tips for productivity plus tools and techniques for using time and resources efficiently.
- Vol. 3: Vendor Management – Including cloud services and how to use data analytics in vendor management.
- Vol. 4: Change Management – Risks associated with change plus tips for effective change management.
- Vol. 5: Implementing Effective Financial Controls – A financial controls update with tips for managing risks associated with cash and cash equivalents.
- Vol. 6: International Activities – A variety of topics including several policies as well as a new presidential policy on International Activities.
- Vol. 7: Gifts and Gratuities – Additional topics include the annual risk assessment, regulatory changes taking effect and policy updates.
- Vol. 8: Fraud Focus – Information on fraud including how to recognize it, how to report it and what happens when it is investigated.
- Vol. 9: Financial Management Dashboard – Financial management tools, focusing on the new enterprise-wide Financial Management Dashboard.
- Vol. 10: Affiliations and Relationships – UCSF's interactions with the community, including Form 700 requirements, agreement types and community collaborations.
- Vol. 11: Year-end Control Activities – Year-end "naughty and nice" lists, key Information Security Policy updates, e-prescribing information and fraud trends.
- Vol. 12: Healthcare-related Risks – Healthcare industry-wide survey results, regulatory updates, anti-bullying guidelines and drug diversion.
- Vol. 13: Digital Innovation – Technology that is changing the risk landscape, risk visualization and digital health innovation at UCSF.
- Vol. 14: Year-end Insights – Year-end "naughty and nice" lists, Financial Management Dashboard updates, travel and entertainment expenses and gift card fraud schemes.
- Vol. 15: Resiliency – Crisis management including control considerations, productivity tips and disaster and fraud scams to avoid.
- Vol. 16: Small World, Big Risks – High visibility regulations and risks associated with foreign operations and relationships.
- Vol. 17: Expanding Cybersecurity to Combat Increasing Cybercrime - Key tactics used by cybercriminals and what can be done to mitigate them.
- Vol. 18: Year-end Audit Insights - Year-end "naughty and nice" lists, policy updates, and conflicts of interest relating to near relatives.
- Vol. 19: Relative Risk - Conflicts of Interest and Near Relatives - Scenarios relating to hiring and managing near relatives and how to avoid conflicts of interest.
- Vol. 20: Internal Control Tricks or Treats - Things that scare auditors, spooky fraud schemes, autumnal trick or treat, and the the eternal need for inventory management controls.