Closing of the Auditors Mind? - How to Reverse Erosion of Trust, Virtue, Wisdom in Modern Auditing

In The Closing of the Auditor's Mind? David J. O'Regan describes internal auditing as an important "binding agent" of social cohesion, for the accountability of individuals and organizations and also at aggregated levels of social trust.

List of contents

Preface. A Note on Methodology. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Glossary. 1 Introduction. 2 The marginalization of internal auditing in a post-bureaucratic age. 3 Social trust and the audit society. 4 The corrosion of professional virtue in internal auditing. 5 Numbers, wisdom, and internal auditing follies. 6 Toward a renaissance of internal auditing? 7 Concluding thoughts. Appendix A - Philosophical notes. Appendix B - Aphoristic wisdom. References. Index.

About the author

David J. O'Regan has authored nine books on auditing and related themes. His interests include the application of Aristotelian logic to the auditing process, and he is the author of the Auditor's Companion: Concepts and Terms from A to Z (Georgetown University Press, 2024). He earned a doctorate in accounting and finance from the University of Liverpool and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. His auditing experience covers more than three decades, spanning the private, public, and academic sectors. He commenced his career in the United Kingdom with Price Waterhouse, a forerunner firm to today's PricewaterhouseCoopers, and subsequently worked in industry before heading the internal audit function at Oxford University Press. He then entered public service in the United Nations system, initially at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands. From 2009 he has served as Auditor General to the Pan American Health Organization in Washington D.C.

Summary

In The Closing of the Auditor’s Mind? David J. O’Regan describes internal auditing as an important “binding agent” of social cohesion, for the accountability of individuals and organizations and also at aggregated levels of social trust.

Product details

• Authors: David J. O'Regan, David J. O''regan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032664866
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266486-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Security, Audit and Leadership Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; COMPUTERS / Security / General, COMPUTERS / Logic Design, LAW / Computer & Internet, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Auditing, Computer security, Legal aspects of IT, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Computer architecture & logic design, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Computer architecture and logic design, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Auditing / Audits, audit;trust;modern auditing;diversification;financial audit