No longer a second-rate career move, taking an audit post can serve as a springboard to almost any finance role, including CFO.
Among the many profound changes wrought by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, one that has yet to win due recognition is the elevated status of internal auditors.
Historically, internal audit was hardly considered a launch pad for executive careers in finance. Rather, it was often a stagnant pool in which financial types got stuck. In recent years, though, after the spate of corporate scandals that led to Sarbox and its heightened financial-reporting mandates, internal audit has found itself in the corporate spotlight.
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