
Larry Harrington, vice president of internal audit for Raytheon Company, has one of the best internal audit success metrics I’ve ever come across: telephone calls.
“If you’ve developed a brand as a great audit function, your phone is going to ring off the hook from people in the business who want your help,” Harrington explains. “At the end of the day, we’re not paid by the audit report or by the audit finding. We’re paid by how we can make the company better.”
In other words: If you make the company better, the phone calls will come.
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