Practical perspectives on audit function development, external quality assessments, QAIP development, and risk-based internal audit — written for practitioners who want to operate with structure and confidence.
Most internal audit functions know they need a Quality Assurance Improvement Program. Far fewer have one that actually works. Here is what QAIP development looks like when it is built to last.
Read articleAn external quality assessment is not something you prepare for in the weeks before it starts. The audit functions that get the most out of the process have been preparing for years — whether they knew it or not.
Read articleThe audit functions that handle external quality assessments well are not the ones that prepared the hardest in the final months. They are the ones that were already operating the way the assessment would expect.
Read articleMost internal audit teams are capable. The problem is not the people — it is that every engagement starts from scratch. A repeatable audit methodology changes that.
Read articleThe audit teams that struggle with consistency and credibility are rarely lazy. They are usually doing too much with too little structure. The problem is not effort — it is the absence of a system.
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