Beyond Audit

Your game plan for strategic success in today’s remote audit department

Beyond Audit is your guide to taking advantage of this unique moment to review and enhance your audit methodology to improve execution, operations, and audit product. Change has been thrust upon the audit industry, and every company must adapt to business interruptions and remote work environments. Now is the perfect time for audit departments to step back and turn a critical eye on their own operations. We have an opportunity to identify new ways of increasing product offerings and building more effective and efficient operations, ultimately creating better results for our partners and clients.

This book will take you from a foundational understanding of the business environment through to a reflective review of your own operational effectiveness and efficiency. You’ll gain access to the Audit Risk Barometer (ARB), an innovative self-assessment tool that scores audit department strengths and opportunities for improvement. This book also includes a detailed methodology for working with your business partner to ensure clear identification of business objectives. You’ll also learn how to identify “true process risks” to ensure that testing remains focused and adds value. Finally, you'll learn critical skills and team development ideas for every level.

• Gain a fundamental understanding of today's business environment and how traditional and remote auditing fits into the new business puzzle
• Use the exclusive Audit Risk Barometer to conduct a valuable self-assessment and uncover your team’s strengths and weaknesses
• Learn how to effectively and efficiently work with your business partner to identify objectives and value-add opportunities
• Access online resources, including video summaries and interactive tools to revamp your audit department

Beyond Audit incorporates links to online video summaries, templates mentioned throughout the book, interviews with experienced professionals, and an audit tracking software tool. This book is an enormously valuable resource for audit teams of any size and shape.

ROBERT L. MAINARDI is the Founder of Beyond Audit (formally Mainardi & Associates), a firm that develops, facilitates, and administers custom training programs in auditing and risk. He was formerly a Vice President with Penn Mutual Life Insurance where he managed audit operations, staff, and business relationships for the life, brokerage, investment, and trust and mutual fund businesses.