Insights
Notes from the field on controls, audit, and risk education.
Practical perspectives drawn from 15+ years inside finance, audit, and SOX programs — written for the people running the controls, not just signing off on them.
May 2026 · Education
Flipping the Script: Why Control Owners—Not Auditors—Should Write Process Narratives
If your process narratives only live in an audit binder, your control environment is on borrowed time. Here's how to shift ownership back where it belongs.
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9 min read
Apr 2026 · SOX
Survival Guide: First-Year SOX Readiness Without Burning Out Your Finance Team
A structured, pragmatic 90-day roadmap to building an audit-ready RACM while keeping your finance team's sanity intact.
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10 min read
Mar 2026 · Operational Audit
Procure-to-pay: the three controls most mid-market firms get wrong
Segregation of duties, vendor master integrity, and three-way match — the failure patterns we see again and again.
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5 min read
Feb 2026 · Risk
Building a risk register your board will actually read
Trim the heat map. Anchor risks to value drivers. Report what changed, not what exists.
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7 min read
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