Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices

by Clarissa Lucas

Beyond Agile Auditing shows auditors and organizational leaders how to revolutionize the audit experience. For decades, auditors have unintentionally struck fear in their clients. They are rarely welcomed into an area with open arms and are often viewed as one more obstacle to delivering value. But internal audit serves a vital function in reducing risk and ensuring success for all organizations. In Beyond Agile Auditing, experienced audit and risk management leader Clarissa Lucas shows organizations how to go beyond collaboration and build a partnership between auditors and clients. By leveraging this partnership, organizations can experience more value-added audit work, faster time to results (and resolution), greater engagement and satisfaction from all parties involved, and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, By building upon the work of the DevOps community, which reinvented the relationship between two groups that historically saw each other as adversaries and obstacles, Lucas applies new and better ways of working to the audit process. In this reimagined world, auditors (as well as other assurance providers) work closely with their clients to become strategic differentiators instead of obstacles, providing stakeholders value they never imagined. Come join us in this brave new world of audit.

224 pages, Paperback

Published May 30, 2023

Reviews

[Erin Becker · Rating 5 out of 5]

This material can be understood and the practices can be implemented by anyone with any amount of audit background and tenure. There are pages and pages of realistic and easy ways to get faster (and still reliable) results from clients and internal audit staff. Even if you’re not ready to commit to moving to “auditing with agility” this book comes with a lot of creative insights into how to make audits more productive for internal auditors AND the clients.