June 10, 2024
Those who follow me know that I have long been an outspoken defender of internal auditors and chief audit executives who are victims of retaliation, or […]
June 4, 2024
It was bound to happen. After all, technology that seems too good to be true, often is. Perhaps no technology in our lifetime has offered more […]
May 29, 2024
I was recently gathered with a group of colleagues at a networking event in London when one of them gently chastised me for unabashedly urging the […]
May 19, 2024
Retaliation against internal auditors is not common, but it does happen. I have witnessed or been privy to countless instances in which internal auditors, who were […]
May 6, 2024
Occasionally, important research or insightful thought leadership on internal audit falls under the radar. That may have been the case in March, when Deloitte’s Center for […]
May 3, 2024
Once again, it’s Internal Audit Month. Organizers at The IIA dropped “awareness” from the title, and it’s about time. How long were we going to focus […]
April 29, 2024
This week, I published the second edition of my book Agents of Change with a slightly different title: Agents of Change: Internal Auditors in the Era […]
April 22, 2024
I once had the unenviable task of informing a 2-star American Army general that my internal audit team had discovered a potential procurement law violation. That […]
April 8, 2024
As a young internal auditor, I often felt like a student carefully observing and learning from those in the department who were senior to me. I […]
March 25, 2024
One of the most valuable services the Internal Audit Foundation provides to the profession is its annual Pulse of Internal Audit report. The 2024 edition was […]