Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Richard Chambers, CEO of Richard F. Chambers and Associates and Auditboard senior internal audit advisor.
Audit as a profession is only around 100 years old. Chambers has been around for nearly half of that time. Starting out as an internal auditor in the private sector, he later moved to government roles, rising to become the Director of Internal Review for the Army, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service, and Director General of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Chambers closed out his career with a long stint leading The Institute of Internal Auditors. He’s now a private consultant and senior internal audit advisor for AuditBoard.
Through these roles, Chambers has had an inside view of the evolution of the audit profession. In this interview he outlines the remarkable changes he’s seen, new paths both into and out of internal audit, why young auditors should ignore much of the common career advice they’re given, and the all important role of trust in doing quality work as an auditor.
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