Chambers on Internal Audit

​​The iconic Larry Sawyer once observed that “few sources of friction within the audit department exceed that caused by the process of report writing.” Sawyer went on to […]

Over the past two years, I have heard executives complaining ​with increasing frequency that “internal auditors just don’t understand the business.” My sense is that some […]

In my last blog entry, I explored the concept of internal auditing’s stakeholders and who I thought they were. I identified the primary stakeholders of a typical […]

In my last blog entry, I cited some emerging challenges and identified five key priorities that chief audit executives (CAEs) should be pursuing as 2011 gets underway: […]

The past three years have been both remarkable and challenging for internal auditors. We have demonstrated remarkable agility in swiftly refocusing our efforts to address emerging […]

It is that time of year again when bloggers have to choose whether to look back or look ahead. Looking back is much less risky. After […]

In September, we announced the results of a meeting held at the ISACA International Headquarters office between the senior management staff of ISACA and The IIA. […]

As you may have noted, my blog has been silent for the past two weeks. This is not because I didn’t have anything to say. Instead, […]

I am sure you were as relieved as I was to learn the recession in the Un​ited States officially ended in June 2009. If we had only […]