Internal Audit Resources

Each year about this time, I reflect back on the year and the blogs I have written. Having authored almost 600 blog posts over the past […]

Professions thrive through advocacy and diversity of thought. The internal audit profession is no different. For the past three years, I have recognized men and women […]

I recently shared a blog that proved very popular with the profession. Internal Auditors Must Remember: Good People Can Do Bad Things resonated with readers around […]

In a recent blog post, I shared some statistics that confirmed an inconvenient truth: the typical internal audit department is small – averaging less than 5 […]

When internal auditors think of fraudulent acts, we tend to associate them with nefarious characters who intentionally set out to do something bad. However, as I […]

My friend and fellow blogger Norman Marks reminded us recently of an enduring challenge that many internal auditors face. In a blog post titled “You Can’t […]

In a recent blog post, I explored the reality that most internal audit departments are actually small, with a staff of five or fewer full-time auditors. […]

When I first became a CAE almost 30 years ago, I inherited an internal audit department with very limited resources, especially considering the size of the […]

At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world were working feverishly to appropriate relief funds to mitigate the pain and suffering of their […]

Back before the pandemic, I had the opportunity to address a graduate internal audit class at my alma mater, Georgia State University (GSU). My message to […]