International Internal Audit Awareness Month

As Internal Audit professionals, we all play an important role in raising awareness and elevating the status of our profession. The month of May, which has been established by The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA Global) as the International Internal Audit Awareness Month, offers us a significant opportunity to promote our profession among all relevant stakeholders by a variety of ways.

One of our major aims must be to enhance the business community’s knowledge of the essential role internal auditing plays in strong organizational governance and internal control, as well as effective risk management. Furthermore, on society level, as the general public becomes more familiar with the actual activities of internal auditors, more and more individuals will consider our profession as a viable career option.

In promoting our profession, especially in May, we can organize a function in our workspace to dispel any wrong myths about internal auditing and explain the real value that a well-resourced and independent internal audit function provides to our organization. We can also raise the profile of our internal audit department’s staff members by featuring their biographies in articles uploaded on our organization’s intranet or internal newsletter. But these are only two examples of promotional activities we may engage in. According to the business environment of our workplace, each and every one of us can think and organize various other activities in raising awareness about internal auditing.

So, let everyone know that not only WE ARE PROUD TO BE INTERNAL AUDITORS, but also that WE ARE THE MOST TRUSTED ADVISORS to Boards and Management.