Reading Time: 5 minutes Outside of boxing or mixed martial arts, internal auditing has to be one of the most contentious careers around. After all, you hardly ever a department saying, “Let’s invite the internal auditors to our next …
Reading Time: 6 minutes Most modern organizations have at least one process that is outsourced or co-sourced to a third-party provider. There are numerous reasons why this may be a good decision. Sometimes there may be non-core functions that …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes You’ve just completed a very complex audit. There were a multiple issues to report. Some issues have easy fixes and others would require a significant amount of time and attention. Management’s action plans are very …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am an internal auditor and I love it. Most outside of the profession believe that internal auditors sit behind a desk all day with a 10 key (remember those?) or a spreadsheet verifying numbers. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Auditors are humble messengers who deliver news to clients. The news is typically an assessment of management’s processes. And let’s be honest, auditors can find something to report in any area, no matter how well …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you ever been in the middle of an audit engagement with severe issues and thought, “This is the audit that will get me fired!”? I know what you’re thinking, “That’s absurd”. After all, who …
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a joke about the love/hate relationship between auditors and clients. Auditor: We’re coming to audit you soon. Will you guys be available? Client: Sure, you know we love you guys! Auditor: REALLY Client: …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I recently hired a new employee. One of the first things I wanted to do was make him comfortable with the people performing the processes…our audit clients. So I hustled him from department to …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Curiosity killed the cat is a metaphor used to convey the dangers of questioning the status quo. It is often used to discourage people from asking questions. However, there is true productivity and power in …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes How important is completing the audit plan? For many audit departments, it is a key performance measurement used to determine the department’s effectiveness. But wait, I thought the goal of internal audit was to evaluate …
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