Common Audit Challenges

Common Audit Challenges

I am a sharer, a disseminator, and a bug-like genetic slave to my professional function as a teacher and an author.

Think of me as a little bee, flitting from flower to flower, spreading delicate yellow pollen… Wait! If you have ever met me in person, that image won’t work. No one has ever called me ‘little’ unless talking about my brain capacity.

Physically, I am more akin to John Belushi’s character on Saturday Night Live, the Killer Bee. I smoke occasionally, am overweight and have more than a little attitude.

But since I have worked with just about every type and shape of audit team there is, I end up acting as a bee, cross pollinating audit shops. I both see and try to resolve the common audit challenges that face most teams.

I’ve worked with all levels of government auditors and monitors, CPA firms and Fortune 5 internal auditors. I’ve worked with universities, the military and and and….

I’m covered in pollen. 🙂...  

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Deborah Davis, CPA

Chief Audit Executive at Utah State Board of Education

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I loved this analogy and shared it with my team. This prompted additional thought and one team member indicated an experienced auditor may cross-pollinate OR cross-pollute (if they aren't competent at what they do). Food for thought.

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