Auditing Marketing for the Organization's Success

When it comes to marketing and intrenal auditing, chances are you don't envision the two departments as part of a collaborative effort for the good of the organization. Marketing is the pie-in-the-sky service where creativity trumps controls every time. Internal audit is the down-to-earth activity where common sense drives the mitigation of risks.

Message, Brand, and Dollars shows these two opposites can work together to drive an organization's marketing success. Social media compliance experts Mike Jacka and Peter Scott explain:

• The difference between auditing marketing and auditing the marketing department.
• The key documents unique to marketing - creative brief, brand standards manual, image standards, and media strategies - that help guide operations.
• The role fo brand management, creative services, and media - including social media - in achieving marketing strategies.
• New information on data security, cybersecurity, source code management, and vendor management and contracts.
• The unique requirements of agency relationship management, how theses suport the overall operations, and where things might go wrong.
• Ways internal audit can review marketing activities to help ensure risks have been properly identified and appropriate controls have been established.

What not only makes the practice of marketing a challenge - but also the performance of an internal audit - are the many ways to develop, implement, staff, and direct activities. Message, Brand, and Dollars contains practical information that any internal auditor needs to gain a better understanding of marketing.