The Audit Podcast

Chief Audit Executive at the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, Sandra Menjivar-Suddeath joins the show to talk about how she trains new members of the Board on value of Internal Audit.   Sandra also gives some really good guidance on how she incorporated analytics into their audit department, why audit departments aren't using analytics, and shares what every audit department should stop doing r...

Former President and CEO of the IIA and current Founder of Richard F. Chambers & Associates, Richard Chambers joins the show to talk about the biggest risk to the profession and how we can continue to get better.   Richard also shares the elevator pitch for Internal Audit that we can all model, what he's seeing Internal Auditors in Silicon Valley doing, the impact on culture and talent management...

A Mindful Leader in Tech, Dana Lawrence joins the show to talk about all kinds of great topics, including mindfulness at work.   Dana also tells her story about being in the audit profession while serving tech startups, when a tech startup should consider bringing on a full-time auditor, how to be authentic in public speaking, and few nuggets on data ethics.   For an hours worth of nuggets on data...

Chief Audit Executive at Home Federal Bank at Tennessee, Paul Arab joins the show to talk about how to rebrand Internal Audit for more advisory work.   Paul walks us through the hurdles of making the change that we can look out for, the benefits to the bank as well as the benefits it had on his team. Paul also talks through what we should look for in hiring a good auditor and the biggest problem h...

Audit Director at Nielsen Media Research, Jessica Fernandez-Simpson joins the show to talk about dealing with constant changes in a decentralized IT environment as well as constant changes in compliance regulations.   Some bonus insight from Jessica's time as a recruiter, she also shares how to retain and develop talent in a post Covid world while also offering advice for those new to the professi...

It's taken about 15 years for me to figure out how to set goals for myself so I wanted to share that today. Also, be sure to follow us on our new social media accounts on  LinkedIn ,  Instagram , and  TikTok . Also be sure to sign up for  The Audit Podcast newsletter  and to check out my favorite part of the interview on  The Audit Podcast YouTube channel . * This podcast is brought to you by  Gre...

Europe's Leading Internal Audit Communication Consultant, Tracie Marquardt joins the show to share her sixteen years of expertise in coaching communication.   Tracie walks us through the need for a good relationship in order to issue a good audit report, how to agile your communication, and gives away actionable takeaways on how to influence (for more on agiling your audit communication be sure to...

Internal Controls Supervisor at Arbonne Shelby Vignes joins the show to talk about her unique role in the audit profession.   Shelby gives a great example of what machine learning is and how she and Arbonne are using it to fight e-commerce fraud, being agile within the controls remediation process, and the importance of the resource strain a controls recommendation can have on the business.   Shel...

Sr. Director of Risk Management and Internal Audit at Cable ONE, Michelle Bennett is here to talk about Risk Management and tell her story about taking on the Internal Audit department as well.   Michelle talks about how she got up to speed on Internal Audit after taking it over, the difference between Risk Management and Internal Audit, and what it means to have grace in a relationship with our a...

Head of Internal Audit at Chewy, Alan Maran joins the show to talk about the steps he's taken to modernize his Internal Audit department with analytics, automation, and other tools.   We also talk about how to develop your staff into the auditor of the future, the number one question the Audit Committee is asking, and the number one question we should be asking the Audit Committee.   Also, be sure...

Professor of Audit and Assurance at the University of Technology Sydney and one of the top audit YouTuber's in the world, Dr. Amanda White joins the show to talk about how we can learn to audit better and how we can teach others as well.   If you've ever had to train a new hire or someone new to the profession then this episode has what you're looking for.   Amanda also recommends starting them of...

Top 10 Internal Audit Thought Leader of 2020 and Managing Director of Audit Executive Advisory Services, Hal Garyn joins the show to provide his expert opinion on a wide range of audit and leadership topics.    A timely topic, Hal discusses what audit leaders need to be doing right now to help their organizations think through their approach in coming back to the office. Hal also talks about how a...

Top 10 Internal Audit Thought Leader of 2020 and cybersecurity expert Susan Paul joins the show to talk IT audit.   With 2020 being pretty much a nightmare for everyone, we wanted to get Susan's thoughts on the high-risk IT areas to consider for 2021. We also discuss the biggest problems facing the audit profession and some good resources for staying up to date on cyber and phishing news.   Links...

CISO at the Grand River Dam Authority and President of the Oklahoma ISSA chapter, Pedro Serrano joins the show to talk security and audit.   I always enjoy hearing from folks that have been audited and Pedro has some memorable stories from his experience that he shares. We also talk what topic is going to be in the security world one year from now.   For those interested in getting started in secu...

Each episode we pick the best clip and post it to YouTube and LinkedIn. This is a mashup of those clips from the first half of The Audit Podcast.   Also, be sure to follow us on our new social media accounts on  LinkedIn ,  Instagram , and  TikTok . Also be sure to sign up for  The Audit Podcast newsletter  and to check out my favorite part of the interview on  The Audit Podcast YouTube channel ....

Each episode we pick the best clip and post it to YouTube and LinkedIn. This is a mashup of those clips from the first half of The Audit Podcast. Also, be sure to follow us on our new social media accounts on  LinkedIn ,  Instagram , and  TikTok . Also be sure to sign up for  The Audit Podcast newsletter  and to check out my favorite part of the interview on  The Audit Podcast YouTube channel . *...

I decided to switch it up and do this one all by myself. Enjoy!   Check out the 75 Hard program I mention as well as my two favorite apps from the year: LastPass and Listary . If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. It only took 16 seconds to give myself a five-star rating...

Long time audit consultant and trainer Michelle Fowler is here to talk about the process for audit departments to follow to be more innovative.    Amongst other topics, we also discuss which is more important: understanding the business or understanding audit.   Be sure to check out the Fowler and Company website to learn more about Michelle's service offerings including the Internal Audit  Career...

Long time CAE and Risk Officer Norman Marks is here to talk about risk management for success.   Norman also discusses: How audit can change our mindset about only looking for risk What to do when our companies have poor objectives The single piece of advice he'd offer everyone in the audit profession The role of analytics in audit   Be sure to check out Norman's latest book Risk Management for Su...

A favorite topic of mine: how to move up the analytics maturity model. Colleen Knuff from TeamMate is hear to share the evidence of how to do so through the results of the Touchstone Survey .   We stick to two main topics, but they're big ones that need to be heard regardless of how advanced your analytics program is: How successful programs are moving up the maturity model The three biggest stumb...

Dan Clark is here to tell us all about creating a Circle of Influence, how to develop foresight, how to influence without the audit report, and all the topics in the audit profession he disagrees with.   After you hear Dan you're going to want more so check out his book Dare to Be Different: An Auditors Personal Guide to Excellence .  Also be sure to follow Dan on LinkedIn to get more of his persp...

With over 30 years of experience in tech risk, Bernie Wedge is here to talk all things SOX. It's an audit podcast so this topic was bound to come up eventually and there's few who know it better than Bernie.   Bernie walks us through: Why we keep seeing the same SOX deficiencies despite SOX being 18 years old The number one issue management continues to struggle with and how to fix it How to use a...

After spending years of his time and money Julio Tirado gives us the best list of resources for learning cyber security, analytics, and any other topic you need to learn.   For reference of what was discussed on the show: When asked what's the one thing we should do to better understand cyber security, Julio recommends OUCH! Newsletter . Online Learning Resources -  https://www.coursera.org/ https...

Ever wondered how to get coke over the border? Or how you see NAFTA all over the place but don't really know what it is and at this point you're too afraid to ask?   Enter Trade Compliance Specialist Benita Lee.   Trade compliance isn't something I hear much about in the audit world so this was a great topic to dive into.   Benita does a lot more than just trade compliance so be sure to connect wi...

Stephen Vigil is here to talk sentiment analysis and how internal audit can use it on their engagements. We talk about regression analysis, causation and correlation, bigrams and whole lot more analytics techniques.   For the video showing the nine visualization Stephen walks through you can go here .   For the free text analysis tool that we mention on the show please visit Voyant Tools .   If yo...