The future of internal auditing
Bruce Turner, “an active company director and audit committee chair”, was recently interviewed on this topic. You can see the full interview at CERM Risk Insights and there is also an article in Future of Professions.
Do you hire people who can think?
In Auditing that matters (which I strongly recommend for every internal audit practitioner or consultant), I have a chapter on making sure you have the audit team you need. Here is an excerpt from the start of that chapter. It talks about probably the most important skill I needed from every member of my team.
How effective are your systems of governance, risk, and control/compliance (GRC)?
The majority of internal audit functions perform a variety of audits every year and provide an opinion (ideally) or at least a list of risk-ranked weaknesses (far less than ideally) on the scope of each audit.
