Beyond Agile Auditing

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.

Clarissa Lucas, CIA, CISA, CIDA is a pioneer and thought leader in improving audit experiences for both auditors and management. She has published articles with the Institute of Internal Auditors and IT Revolution on enhancing the audit process using Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices. As a practicing audit leader, she has put theory to practice and helped teams experience move value-added audits. Clarissa has also spoken at several industry conferences on this topic. She resides in Ohio with her husband and son.

Introduction Part I: The Past, Present, and Future of Internal Audit Chapter 1: The Legacy of Audit Chapter 2: Adventures in Agile Auditing Chapter 3: Value-Driven, Integrated Auditing with Agility Chapter 4: Problems and Solutions Part II: Deep Dive into VDIAA Chapter 5: Practices and Principles of Value-Driven Auditing Chapter 6: Practices and Principles of Integrated Auditing Chapter 7: Practices and Principles of Auditing with Agility Part III: Toward an Audit Transformation Chapter 8: How to Make the Transition to VDIAA Chapter 9: Overcoming Challenges to Transformation Conclusion: A Call to Action Bibliography Notes Acknowledgments About the Author