In the same way that waters seeks out the path of least resistance, so do people when faced with a control at “breaking point”.… [Read more]
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The Illusion of Assurance
By Tom McLeod
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: internal controls, security, TSA
Audit’s Hadron Collider
By Tom McLeod
Is an audit equivalent of the Hadron Collider really that far fetched?… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: audit, Hadron, Internal audit, internal controls
Homeland Security – Major Management Challenges
By Tom McLeod
History will tell us that any report that is headed “Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the …” tends to be a good read.… [Read more]
Filed Under: Report of the Week Tagged With: DHS, internal controls
Wheels Up
By Tom McLeod
How many companies could have been saved had those who knew that something was amiss had the courage to say so.… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: air crash, courage, internal controls, investigation
To Insure Promptitude
By Tom McLeod
What is the organisational equivalent of a tip?… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: bonus, internal controls, tip
The HLB Internal Control Indicator
By Tom McLeod
We have devised an indicator of the strengthening of an internal control environment.… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: Coppock Indicator, internal controls, risk
The London World War 2 Blackout
By Tom McLeod
Testing the unintended consequences of a new process, a new control, a new framework.… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: blackout, internal controls, London, risk management, unintended consequences
Terminal Controls
By Tom McLeod
What should you do with a control that is redundant?… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: audit, internal controls, risk, security
A Wilpena
By Tom McLeod
When you are dealing with an internal control that – quite simply – no one cares about and neither should you.… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: audit, internal controls, Wilpena Pound
Perfection
By Tom McLeod
What controls within an organisation are so good that they are barely changed (and don’t need to) from the day that were designed?… [Read more]
Filed Under: Honestly Lay Bare Tagged With: Internal audit, internal controls, risk, risk environment
