April 15, 2025
Corporate history showcases many failures where boards were unprepared. Postmortems often assign blame to poor management, fraud, or external threats but overlook a key question: Who […]
October 28, 2024
In her iconic book, Extraordinary Circumstances, former WorldCom chief audit executive (CAE) Cynthia Cooper recounts her challenge of bringing to the audit committee’s attention more than […]
February 5, 2024
I write and lecture often about the risks of an unhealthy or toxic culture. Last year, I was honored to partner with longtime friend Cynthia Cooper […]
December 16, 2019
It is not often when a new report reveals information that is truly startling or exposes a previously unknown wrinkle to an area as well studied […]
November 25, 2019
For the better part of a decade, corporate scandals have emerged with embarrassing regularity. Whether involving circumventing regulations, financial misstatements, or executive misbehavior, each is a […]
October 21, 2019
The number of shocking corporate scandals that have damaged major corporations reads like part of a top 10 list of news events from the past decade […]
October 15, 2019
Against a backdrop of numerous high-profile corporate scandals, boards of directors around the world are facing increasing pressure to perform. Activist investors, changes in technology, and […]
March 4, 2019
For nearly five years, I have been urging practitioners to “audit at the speed of risk.” I first used the phrase in a July 2014 blog […]
November 5, 2018
I have written extensively about the work internal auditors must do to fulfill their own potential and that of the profession in enhancing and protecting the […]