Most read posts of 2020 and all-time

It is interesting to me that the blog post that has attracted the most views in 2020 is also the most read post all-time.

It seems people continue to be very interested in risk appetite – signaling that I need to share more thoughts on why this is a concept with serious flaws, which I shall in January.

In any event, the top 12 are shown below. A further 17 had more than 1,000 views.

• Just what is risk appetite and how does it differ from risk tolerance? (9,406)
• The Evolution of Internal Audit (7,461)
• The Three Lines of Defense Model is no more (5,579)
• The role of internal audit in risk management (4,496)
• How can we help with Coronavirus? (2,553)
• Death of the Audit Report (2,111)
• Just what is “reasonable assurance”? (2,079)
• New ERM Guidance from COSO (2,079)
• COSO still believes in risk appetite statements (1,936)
• Should internal audit perform a risk assessment? (1,896)
• Which comes first, risk or control? (1,881)
• Toss out traditional risk management thinking (1.842)

When it comes to all-time views, these are the posts that have garnered more than 10,000 views.

• Just what is risk appetite and how does it differ from risk tolerance? (79,401)
• How to assess the effectiveness of internal control…