Professional

Larry Hubbard offers quality assessment, training and consulting services to internal auditors. Larry performs full external Quality Assessments and validates the self-assessments of audit departments (SAIV) for compliance with the International Standards for Professional Practice of Internal Auditing. Larry also facilitates the self-assessment process for departments using the Internal Audit Capability Model (IA-CM) published by The IIA Research Foundation.

Audit Beliefs

Before I come on-site, you should know some things about my audit views. These are at the core of all my work.

I believe:

  • Management controls are things managers put in place to help activities work right.

  • Setting objectives is one of the most basic management controls.

  • Internal control frameworks, like COSO and CoCo, are mainly for auditors.

  • There's no such thing as a "good audit finding".

  • The best audit report is no audit report - as in, Everything Was OK!

  • Everything internal auditors do should help reduce the need for after-the-fact auditing.

  • Recommendations don't add value. Implementation does.

  • Consulting is about improving process flow; auditing is about evaluating controls in process flow.

  • People doing the work always know more than those reviewing their work.

  • In the future, great auditors must be great facilitators.

I also believe training should be fun!

  • Participants learn more when it is fun.

  • Fun makes everyone more creative.

  • Having fun is good for auditors.

  • Boring training is really boring!

Want to know why I believe these things? Contact me.

Larry Hubbard