If you’d asked me for the definition of internal audit a few months ago, I would have guessed it was some sort of self-help cleansing ritual involving crystals and quinoa. You know, the type of exercise where afterward you annoy all your friends by telling them how mindful and present you are now. And they swear they’ll try it for themselves just to get you to go away.
But after some rigorous research, interrupted only by brief periods of attempting to determine the proper pronunciation of quinoa, I learned that internal audit is a profession that involves “evaluating and improving the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes within an organization.”
Um, ok. I still had questions.
So I reached out to a couple of leading experts on…
