Rising from the Mailroom to the Boardroom

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I've Been Working on the Railroad

Taking on a chief audit executive role for the first time can be unnerving, especially when it involves rebuilding a large internal audit activity and reversing a prior audit committee decision for outsourcing. The challenge is amplified when the responsibilities include major investigations into poor behavior and corruption prevention in an industry rife with fraud. This chapter illustrates how a “back to basics” approach helped to strengthen a lax control environment and, ultimately, delivered global recognition for internal audit quality … and it also considers the responsibility to protect whistleblowers even after leaving an organization, and the impact of poor probationary management practices. In ...