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💪🤓✅💻 The best internal audit, risk management, and governance content for internal audit pros & everyone else (see below)
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If you’re getting audited by your internal audit department, or similar, then you may be a bit anxious. This is especially true if you’ve never been through an internal audit before. Internalauditguide.com is the place for you – we have plenty of content that will be useful for any function currently undergoing an internal audit review/exam.
IV. Career Change
Internal audit is an amazing career for many people – for some it’s something that will last a lifetime, while for others it is a critical and fundamental stepping stone into other roles/functions, including roles across both the 1st and 2nd lines of defense. A career shift/change into internal audit may be a prudent and appropriate decision – we will help provide you with useful information for you to make smarter decisions when it comes to a potential shift into an internal audit-type role.
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VII. Regulator
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