August 19, 2024
While attending the annual conference of The Institute of internal Auditors South Africa recently, I was struck by how passionately the organizers continue to champion The […]
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 […]
March 18, 2024
Internal auditors have had a long-standing obligation to consider the risks of fraud in their ongoing risk assessment and audit planning. The newly published Global Internal […]
March 3, 2024
The IIA recently launched new Global Internal Audit Standards that, for the first time, requires every internal audit function to have an internal audit strategic plan. […]
February 28, 2024
As I’ve been traveling recently and speaking with internal auditors around the U.S., the most frequently raised topic has been artificial intelligence (AI). Like almost everyone, […]
February 15, 2024
This week’s news reminded us yet again how simple mistakes can often reveal significant risks. Lyft, the global ridesharing company, routinely released its quarterly earnings report […]
January 22, 2024
Given the global reach of the internal audit profession, I am an avid student of various reports that sound alarms about key risks facing the world […]
January 17, 2024
Over the past decade, I have often discussed the strategic risks facing the internal audit profession. That includes several warnings I offered back in 2014: In […]
December 11, 2023
Since launching my website in 2021, I have been extremely gratified at the response by internal auditors and others around the world. A main feature of […]
December 7, 2023
Since the dawn of this decade, the world has been in a perpetual state of crisis. Whether COVID, geopolitical conflicts, macroeconomic events or other turmoil, risks […]