Risk. It's a factor calculated into all big-time sports operations. But baseball was completely unprepared for the risk this season - major league murder in the stands.When Fleet Walker, internal auditor for the New York Yankees, figures out that the killers are striking on anniversaries of perfect games, he becomes embroiled in a plot to hold the national pastime for ransom. Working with a forensic accountant and an FBI agent, he is on the trail of the killers, using his skills as an auditor and his knowledge of baseball history to try to save baseball and its fans.This teaching novel is designed to supplement an auditing, internal auditing, or graduate investment course. Topics covered include the function and purpose of internal auditing, risk assessment, fraud detection, and many more. Students will enjoy the suspense of this psychological thriller that integrates the fundamentals of internal auditing and brings its applications to life, and they will learn important techniques and concepts as the mystery unfolds and Fleet Walker moves closer to nabbing the killers.

The Big R: An Internal Auditing Action Adventure

O'Shaughnessy, John

Crumbley, D. Larry

Ziegenfuss, Douglas E.

Business & Money

Carolina Academic Pr

During the decade since Ethics and the Internal Auditor, much has transpired, especially during the last four years. The widespread evidence of chicanery and fraud on the part of corporate officers and the instances of a lack of ethics and professional conduct on the part of external auditors bring the subject of ethics to immediate attention and interest. The conclusion of the second survey (1994) of the field of internal auditing was that there was, "...considerable change in the attitudes of internal auditors," and that, "Generally it appears that the change is pointed toward a more strict approach and a tendency on the part of more auditors to believe that more drastic actions should be taken." Also, there continued to be a "modest variance" between the auditors' positions and the positions they perceived their organizations would take. 
We believed there would be a further change in the attitude of internal auditors toward the ethics concepts as a result of the tumultuous conditions of recent years and the implied attitude changes that pervaded the field in the mid-1990s. We were hopeful on the part of internal auditors that the change would be for the better. Thus, the reiteration of the study. 
This third survey uses the same vignettes of the prior two studies, the same scaling of reactions, the same instructions, and the same analytical approach. The only difference was that electronic contact was used in place of mail.

Ethics and the Internal Auditor: 20 Years Later

Dittenhofer, Mortimer A.

Business Culture

The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation

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