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Beyond Agile Auditing

By Clarissa Lucas

Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices

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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.

Foreword by Misty Kuamoo.

  • Foreword by Misty Kuamoo
  • Publication Date May 23, 2023
  • Pages 224
  • Dimensions 6 x 9 inches
  • Paperback ISBN 9781950508679
  • eBook ISBN 9781950508686
  • Audiobook ISBN 9781950508709

Features

  • Beyond Frameworks

    This book goes beyond rigid frameworks and helps you learn how to adjust your culture and practices to deliver value sooner.

  • Case Studies

    Full of case studies of highly regulated organizations who have used the practices in this book to successfully change their internal audit.

  • Breaks Down Silos

    Just like DevOps broke down silos between development and operations, this book shows how to bring internal audit into a partnership with software delivery for mutual success.

  • Expert Author

    The author of this book is an expert in internal auditing, having worked in several organizations who have successfully utilized these practices.

About the Book

Just like DevOps revolutionized the way we deliver software, Beyond Agile Auditing will revolutionize internal audit.

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
Clarissa Lucas

Clarissa Lucas

Clarissa Lucas is an experienced audit and risk management leader in the financial services industry. She is also the author of "Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices", has written articles on Auditing with Agility that have been published by the IIA, and has spoken at a number of industry conferences on this topic locally and internationally.

To Author Archive

"I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to enhance their auditing practice. Lucas’s insights and expertise make this book a must-read for anyone seeking to improve their skills and knowledge in this critical area."

Misty Kuamoo

VP, Security Shared Services, Nationwide

"Clarissa isn’t blazing a path; she’s paving a road for the early majority to reap the benefits of Auditing with Agility. . . Beyond Agile Auditing not only provides the “the why” but also provides an outline that prescribes “the how” to succeed . . . I will share this work with all my champions so they too can begin to reap the benefits of Auditing with Agility to their organizations."

Ray Ryjewski

Sr. Solution Engineer, HashiCorp

"In Beyond Agile Auditing, Clarissa Lucas’ suggestions will provide auditors alignment with the business operations and deliver continuous value and risk response to audit stakeholders in real-time. A must-read introspection for audit leaders."

Yosef Levine

CP, CITP, Partner, TechPar Group

"Clarissa Lucas’ book Beyond Agile Auditing challenges the status quo and the conventional wisdom of internal auditing. She rightfully demands a mindset shift, suggesting internal auditors should collaborate with clients more effectively and more efficiently when rendering truly value-adding outcomes. Her wealth of ideas can help practitioners to audit ‘at the speed of risk’ (as suggested by Richard Chambers and Norman Marks)."

Dr. Rainer Lenz

QIAL, CIA, CIIA, CEFA, Chief Audit Executive at SAF-HOLLAND Group

"Beyond Agile Auditing provides a fresh, innovative, yet perfectly logical approach to auditing (with agility). I appreciate Clarissa’s challenge to think differently, through her own stories of obstacles encountered and successes obtained. My curiosity is piqued, and I can’t wait to try out some of these concepts. Thank you for offering a more flexible, collaborative, and value-driven viewpoint."

Pam Pesta

Chief Audit Executive, Erie Insurance

"No single approach to audit is right for all organizations or completely perfect. In her book, Clarissa does a great job examining and offering practical tips for even mature audit functions."

Michael Pisano

Managing Director, Internal Audit Practice, Protiviti

"Great to have a book specifically on auditing with agility. The world will be grateful that this book exists."

Jon Smart

author of Sooner Safer Happier, business agility practitioner and coach

"This will be a great book for the audit community."

Tapabrata "Topo" Pal

coauthor of Investments Unlimited

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