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 […]
October 24, 2023
In a recent blog, I shared insights on the newly published PwC Global Internal Audit Study 2023: Seeing Through Walls to Find New Horizons. In the […]
September 20, 2023
There have been plenty of regional and country-level reports on internal audit in recent years, but the well has been pretty dry when it comes to […]
September 7, 2023
Like many chief audit executives, when I was leading an internal audit function, I periodically found my company facing financial pressures. Inevitably, management and/or the board […]
August 7, 2023
I am often asked for the most common advice I offer to internal auditors seeking to deliver greater value for their organizations. I offer 3 simple […]
July 9, 2023
For more than a decade, chief audit executives have consistently rated critical thinking as one of the top three skills sought when recruiting internal audit staff. […]
June 19, 2023
There haven’t been as many recent high profile corporate scandals involving ethical misconduct by corporate executives, but that doesn’t mean the risk has diminished. As recent […]