GUEST BLOG Over my long career, I have often heard, in one form or another, the phrase: “You just can’t audit that!” The first time I heard it came when I was an internal audit manager for a financial institution. The senior vice president for human resources said she was Read More
Not long ago, I was playing a game of football (which I will reluctantly refer to here by its given name in the United States—“soccer”) with some colleagues in a tournament organized by my company. As we huddled, waiting for the match to begin, our coach remarked, “we won’t find Read More
A new report finds that despite the growth of digital risks, many risk management programs are not maturing quickly enough to keep pace. The study, 2022 Digital Risk Maturity Survey, conducted by AuditBoard—which provides audit, risk, and compliance management platforms—finds that while more than 90 percent of respondents have digital Read More
FEATURED BLOG POST I have always been on the lookout for clever ways to describe internal audit’s role in an organization. One of my favorites used to be “internal audit is the brakes that allows the organization to drive faster.” The reasoning behind this analogy is that brakes are a Read More
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created a drain on organizational resources, including in internal audit departments, and unleashed new risks on a global basis. A recent survey finds that internal audit is addressing such challenges by increasing budgets and hiring additional auditors. The survey, conducted by AuditBoard, a cloud-based platform Read More
GUEST BLOG POST When I became a chief audit executive (CAE) for the first time in 1990, I determined that a risk-based internal audit approach was not sufficient. A risk-based approach focuses on how well management can handle a potentially bad event or situation. It assesses the design and operation Read More
Soon after NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope into Earth’s orbit in 1990, scientists discovered, to their dismay, that the telescope’s primary mirror was flawed. The mirror, built to exacting specifications by an outside contractor, was ground 1/450 millimeters too flat, drastically reducing Hubble’s usefulness and the quality of its Read More
As the vaccination effort continues and hope is spreading that we might be nearing the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still too early to assess the long-term impact the past year of crisis will have on daily life, the economy, and—as it relates here—the internal audit profession. Now, a Read More
At the start of last year, no one could possibly have predicted how 2020 would play out, and how we all, individuals and organizations alike, would be dealing with one of the most disruptive forces to arise in most of our lifetimes. It’s a safe bet that “pandemic” wasn’t on Read More
GUEST BLOG What is risk appetite? It is defined by COSO as the “amount of risk, on a broad level, an organization is willing to accept in pursuit of value.” Before analyzing that nebulous statement, it is useful to consider why we are even thinking about risk appetite statements. Basically, Read More
