Cutting Edge Internal Auditing provides guidance and knowledge for every internal auditor, encouraging each to pioneer new ground in the development of their professional practices in all risk management, control and governance processes.

Serving as an excellent reference guide that develops a pattern of internal auditing now and for the future, this book explores the concept of 'cutting edge' internal auditing as an imaginative adventure: demonstrating how this has influenced and will continue to influence the development of professionalism in internal auditing.

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Bringing creativity and innovation into all professions and types of auditing today, this book meets the needs of auditing practices in the future. Recent criticisms of auditing practices by financial regulators; the traditional 'expectation gaps' between auditors and auditees; continuing advances in technology make it even more important today to motivate creativity and innovation in the professions of auditors, be they internal, external, environmental, social, clinical and so on. Jeffrey Ridley studies all auditing practices, not just internal auditing, using an innovation model he has...