Internal audit. The name leaves something to be desired, in my opinion, and unless you’re familiar with IA, it could be a bit confusing. It also creates this false dichotomy with external audit that really doesn’t exist. Within the IA context, the audit of financial state­ments is supple­mental and focused on only one risk: reporting […]

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Inc. published a short article on “working the phone” yesterday that touched on a number of things that anyone should take to heart if their job involves talking to people on the phone, which is to say, pretty much all office workers that do work. This is one of the bigger differ­ences between my previous gig […]

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The President of the IIA shares what he sees as the top seven attributes of an effective internal auditor, and in general I agree, with a few distinc­tions. The most important attribute is referred to as business acumen, but the description that accom­panies it has more to do with having an in-depth knowledge of the […]

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At the end of September the IIA and ISACA announced they had reached an agreement to “create a basis for cooper­ation and collab­o­ration” between the organi­za­tions. The agreement is formalized in a Memo of Under­standing that has been signed by both parties. The MoU lists a few areas where this agreement makes cooper­ation possible: Speaking […]

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Earlier this week I watched a webinar put on by the Audit Director Round­table, a great resource for internal auditors, titled Enter­prise Risk Audit Planning. If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen this: @neilmcintyre: IT problems for Audit Director Round­table delay the start of the Enter­prise Risk Audit Planning webinar The problem was […]

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