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2012

March 12—The Iterative Nature of Control Evaluation
February 24—Introducing and Demystifying Lean Six Sigma
February 3—3-8-1 Streamline Your Writing Using the Nine-Step Process
January 18—Continuous Monitoring Round-Up
January 14—Final 2011 Yellowbook Released in December

2011

December 7—SECTION 8: Standards for Attestation Engagements
November 2—Why do they call it the "Yellow Book"?
September 14—How the Yellow Book’s New Independence Standards Impact Internal Auditors
September 6—Independence Update for CPA firms – the Little Squeeze
August 23—2011 Internet Version of Yellow Book Published
July 29—Internal Audit Independence
June 20—I have to do what ?*#$@ to audit government grants!?!
May 5—Governments Are Freaky
May 4—So You Want to Audit Government Grants?
April 15—The Single Audit is Rich with Audit Criteria
March 30—Those Nasty SAS 99 Questions
February 24—The Art of the Finding
February 18—A Higher Purpose
January 25—GASB Resources from Terry Patton
January 20—In case you were wondering about the audit process
January 12—The Report Can Only Be as Good as the Audit Itself

2010

January 19—More on Bribery
January 27—Those Pesky Preconceived Ideas
February 21—Confessions of a Recovering Auditor OR Does He Win or Lose? Yes, He Does!
March 5—Transparency and the Lack of It
April 6—Five Types of Reasoning
April 20—Reasonable and Necessary
May 18—What Does Lean Six Sigma Do?
June 4—Linkage
June 29—A Peer Review!?!
July 15—The Core Requirement in the Yellow Book Regarding Quality Control
August 23—Significant Changes to Yellow Book Proposed by GAO
August 25—Zero-dollar CPE for Testers
September 28—The 2010 Revision’s Impact on Internal Audit Independence
November 11—Whas'up with Your Team's Writing? The Root of Writing Problems
December 10—Are You Setting Up Hurdles for the Reader?
December 17—There's Nothing Standard About My Deviation... How 'Bout Yours?

2009

January—A Great Weight On Our Shoulders
February—Themes of the Yellow Book
April—Ethics Per the GAO
April—My Uncle and the Fraud Triangle
May—Red Book and Yellow Book Compared
June—Do You Really Need That Working Paper?
July—Is Statistics a Criminal Act? OR Remember X? That Letter You Learned to Hate in College?
August—Confessions of a Recovering Auditor OR Ye Shall Know the Formula, and the Formula Shall Set Ye Free!
September—A Bear in the Forest
October—Assessing Risk in the Government Environment
November—The Fraud Tree—Corruption Branch

2008

January—The Standards Don't Say Much About Working Papers
February—Little Ideas that Make Working Paper Review Easier
March—Be Careful When Choosing a Sampling Method!
April—Working Paper Etiquette
May—Our Friend, the Summary Memo
June—How to Compile Government Financial Statements
July—New Quality Control Standards: GAGAS—Yellow Book
September—Tone Is A Tricky Thing
October—Give It a Rest!
November—Interviewing: The Power of Two
December—A Mandatory Group Meeting

2007

January—Our Tricky Little Minds
February—The 2007 Yellow Book Revision
March—Gaining an Understanding Is Now Mandatory Per the SASs
April—A Mandatory Meeting After Gathering Information
May—Steps of an Audit—Steps 1 through 3
June—Steps of an Audit—Steps 4 through 7
July—New Study on the Quality of Single Audits & The New Yellow Book Is Here
September—Steps of an Audit—Step 8
October—Steps of an Audit—Step 9
December—Single Audits Found to be Deficient

2006

January—Steps to Conducting an Interview—Preliminary Work
February—Corpus Interviewa (the Body of the Interview)
March—Finishing the Interview
April—Using SAS 99 in Performance Audits
July—Nine Steps to Great Presentations
August—Keeping Busy with the Six P’s
September—The Rug Lifters
October—The New Suite of Risk Assessment SASs
November—Management’s Assertions and the New Risk Assessment SASs
December—Holiday Greetings

2005

January—How to Cook a Fresh Audit Program
February—Getting to Know and Love the Elements of a Finding
March—Finding the Root Cause of an Issue
April—How to Take the "Ouch!" Out of Editing
May—The Three Stages of Editing
July—Darn Good Recommendations
August—Interviewing Competencies, Part I
September—Competency 5: Listening
October—Competencies 6–8: Presentation, Questioning, and Feedback
November—Interviewing Competencies: The Final Installment

2004

January—Bite Off Only What You Can Chew
March—What a Control Model Can Do for You
April—Smoke the Peace Pipe with Your Client
June—Keep a Poker Face and Don't Answer Any Questions
July—Be the Lead Chameleon
October—Keep the Big Picture in Mind When Reviewing Working Papers
November—Little Things Make a Huge Difference
December—Programs: Fresh vs. Canned

2003

August—Executive Summaries for Audit Reports
September—Editing Audit Reports for Readability
October—Yellow Book Revisions
November—A Clear Audit Objective
December—Two Approaches to Risk Assessment

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