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Name: Verna Hughes
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Position: Partner
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Location: London
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Email: verna.hughes@horwath.co.uk
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Tel: 020 7842 7372

Verna joined Horwath Clark Whitehill in 1990 and is now a partner in the Risk & Assurance Group. Her main responsibilities include managing the implementation of Magique/Galileo software and providing risk management services.

Verna was part of the team which developed Galileo, a comprehensive audit management and tracking system for Internal Audit departments and the Magique Risk Management software. Verna works with clients to customise the application and provides after sales support and training. Customers include the Rural Payments Agency, Shell Financial Services, Department for Works and Pensions and over 150 other major organisations. Verna also conducts Risk Response exercises with clients to establish their risk management methodology.

She was involved in the specification and testing of IDEA from 1990-2001 and she co-authored manuals, guides and an on-line help system for the software. She continues to provide IDEA related services, particularly for specialist reviews and fraud investigations.

Verna has trained over 3000 internal auditors globally in the use of data interrogation and other audit automation tools.


 

 

Verna's credentials

Presented on courses run by:

- Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
- ACE Audit Technology, CIPFA Computer Audit Conference
- London Audit Group.

 

- Affiliated member of the ICAEW and the IIA.