May 15, 2023
It’s Internal Audit Awareness Month, and a good time to revisit one of the age-old challenges for the profession: Why don’t people believe “we are here […]
April 18, 2023
One of the features that makes internal auditing so valuable to modern enterprises is that we serve multiple stakeholders, including the board, various levels of management, […]
April 10, 2023
As a young internal auditor, I concentrated on learning technical skills of the profession. I came to appreciate the importance of developing an audit plan at […]
February 13, 2023
Famed American poet Maya Angelou once observed: “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” I have always found that to be […]
July 5, 2022
In my recent blogs, I have been focusing on the basics of effective client service by internal auditors. I even wrote an article for AuditBoard on […]
February 16, 2022
My recent blog, “Five Things Not to Say When You Are Starting an Internal Audit,” was far and away the most popular I have written in […]
November 29, 2021
As a newly appointed chief audit executive many years ago, I tried early to identify the other executives in the organization who would be our strongest […]
November 3, 2021
One of the most frustrating events in my career was one of the first times an internal audit client firmly and repeatedly said “no” to one […]
August 29, 2021
When it comes to corporate governance, I believe there is one enduring lesson from the past two decades: When boards of directors fail in their oversight […]
August 16, 2021
In the past year, management and internal audit have stood together in the vast majority of organizations in the face of the unprecedented risks presented by […]