June 6, 2022
Lawrence Sawyer, one of the “fathers” of modern internal auditing once observed that, “Few sources of friction within the auditing department exceed that caused by the […]
February 7, 2022
I was recently speaking with an old colleague who is now chief audit executive of an American company. She was lamenting how “testy” management seems to […]
September 7, 2021
It didn’t take long for me as a young internal auditor to realize how important it was that meetings with clients go well. Actually, we called […]
July 26, 2021
We live in a world today where the words we choose are more important than ever. An insensitive comment made today is likely to elicit a […]
June 16, 2021
This week, members of the United States House Intelligence Committee will receive a classified briefing on a topic of universal and enduring controversy: Unidentified Flying Objects […]
June 14, 2021
I recently heard from an old acquaintance that I had worked with as an internal audit colleague years ago. He eventually moved on, and today holds […]
June 8, 2020
News last week of improvement in the U.S. jobless situation brought a glimmer of hope that, perhaps, the very worst may be behind us. At least […]
January 21, 2020
One of the 2020 resolutions I wrote about at the beginning of the month addressed the need for internal audit to communicate its value. This should […]