October 24, 2023
In a recent blog, I shared insights on the newly published PwC Global Internal Audit Study 2023: Seeing Through Walls to Find New Horizons. In the […]
October 16, 2023
Over the past few days, internal auditors around the world have been mourning the sudden loss of Phil Tarling, one of the profession’s most widely known […]
October 4, 2023
I recently attended a large internal audit conference in Europe where attendees were anxious (as always) to discuss their daily dilemmas and seek my perspectives. Not […]
September 28, 2023
Over the years, I have weighed in often on behalf of municipal/local government internal auditors who have been victims of the wrath of bureaucrats or politicians. […]
September 20, 2023
There have been plenty of regional and country-level reports on internal audit in recent years, but the well has been pretty dry when it comes to […]
September 14, 2023
In a recent blog for AuditBoard, I observed that the world has seemingly entered “a state of persistent crisis, with no sense of how we’ll escape.” […]
September 12, 2023
During a recent lecture on internal audit’s enduring timeliness challenge, I was once again preaching of the dangers of audit engagements that take too long. A […]
September 7, 2023
Like many chief audit executives, when I was leading an internal audit function, I periodically found my company facing financial pressures. Inevitably, management and/or the board […]
August 28, 2023
“I just wish the internal auditors understood the business better!” I can’t count the number of times I have heard this lament from company executives during […]
August 21, 2023
The term “gaslighting” has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. Its origins date back to a British play later made into a film during […]