Professional audit mentors are scarce.
By Alan Anderson
Transforming Audit for the Future
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I was lucky in the entirety of my career to have been empowered to try doing things differently. I had mentors who encouraged me to keep learning. But today, this forms-filling exercise that audit has become discourages people like me from staying. The ones who stay in audit are the ones who like filling out those forms.
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New audit staff rarely have a mentor who gives them the big picture of what audit is supposed to be. Instead, they learn how to fill out the forms better and more accurately. They don’t get review notes that ask them to think about what they’re doing. They get review notes about the way they reference their supporting documentation.
This lack of mentorship means that the best and brightest, the ones who like to keep learning, eventually leave. We are making the problem worse for future generations.
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