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Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein: The History of Risk, Summarised for Auditors
Bernstein’s history of risk, summarised for auditors: the five eras, the story in twelve steps, nine ideas, a vocabulary, the assumptions inside the profession’s tools, and a worked…
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Risk: A User’s Guide by McChrystal and Butrico: Summary for Auditors
McChrystal and Butrico’s framework for the risk immune system, summarised for auditors: the argument, the ten factors, the cases, a vocabulary, an audit map for response capability and…
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Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Sorkin’s account of the 2008 rescue, summarised for auditors: the timeline, the mechanisms, the people, the Lehman weekend as governance, a vocabulary, an audit map and a worked…
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Barbarians at the Gate: The RJR Nabisco Buyout, Summarised for Auditors
Burrough and Helyar’s account of the RJR Nabisco buyout, summarised for auditors: the timeline, the deal mechanics, the people, the governance questions, a vocabulary, a transaction-controls map and…
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: Enron, Summarised for Internal Auditors
McLean and Elkind’s account of Enron, summarised for auditors: the timeline, the four mechanisms, the people, the gates that failed, a vocabulary, the controls the case produced and…
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Bad Blood by John Carreyrou: The Theranos Fraud, Summarised for Auditors
Carreyrou’s account of Theranos, summarised for auditors: the timeline, how the deception worked, the gates that failed and the two that worked, a vocabulary, a failure-by-failure audit map…
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Influence by Robert Cialdini: Summary and What It Means for Auditors
Cialdini’s psychology of compliance, summarised for auditors: the seven principles, the mechanism, nine ideas, a vocabulary, three audit uses, the principles as a fraud playbook and a worked…
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Is Internal Audit Accounting? The Differences, the Overlap, the Concepts and the Careers
The direct answer and the long one: internal audit is an independent assurance function that evaluates governance, risk and control across the whole organisation, and accounting is one…
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How to Conduct an ISO 14001 Audit: The 2026 Edition, the Programme, Compliance Evaluation
An ISO 14001 audit from the standard to closure: the structure and the 2026 edition changes, clause 9.2, a programme built around significant aspects and compliance obligations, a…
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The Most Common Fears About Internal Audits, and What Actually Happens
Sixteen common fears about internal audits, from being blamed and losing your job to auditors hunting for fraud, each set against what actually happens, where the fear has…
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Professional Judgment in Audit: Reasonable vs. Rational
In the field of internal auditing, where attention to detail and logical reasoning are vital, it is important to distinguish between being reasonable and being excessively rational. Rationality…
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