The Audit Agony Aunt

Sections

  • The Audit Advantage Series

    Welcome to a brand new professional development series, created, crafted and customised to the needs of the audit professional.
  • The Resilient Auditor, Part 1: Resilience

    Welcome to the first of a ten part resilience building programme, tailored specifically to the trials, tribulations and triumphs of being an auditor.
  • The Audit Agony Aunt

    Carol McLachlan, theaccountantscoach, is a qualified accountant, NLP Practitioner and professionally qualified coach. Here Carol answers your questions as our very own Audit Agony Aunt.
  • Audit Advantage: Work overload

    Over the many years I have been coaching and mentoring, the standalone, hot, personal development topic of all time, has been, and still remains, the profound angst of the impossible workload.
  • Audit Advantage: Self-Confidence

    If you’ve ever struggled to find your voice in a meeting, held back when you know you are truly capable, or felt under pressure to conform to something you know isn’t really you, then you know why self confidence matters.
  • Audit Advantage (Special Edition): Email Execution - the Essential Edit

    With the explosion of diverse messaging tools and channels that we have at our disposal right now, understanding the best etiquette for e-communication is vital.
  • Audit Advantage: Anxiety, the Auditor’s Ally?

    This article will suggest some diagnostics, tips and techniques to manage your anxiety, but also pose the vexing question: when, if ever, can anxiety be an auditor’s ally?
  • Audit Advantage: The Problem with Delegation

    Delegation - It’s an essential tool in our armoury of rendering our work physically doable, protecting the fragility of work life balance, safeguarding us from overwhelm and ensuring the investment in skills and experience for the future.
  • Audit Advantage: Impostor Syndrome

    How do you describe your progress, your success, your achievements? Ever ascribe them to ‘just good luck’, ‘being in the right place at the right time’, ‘sheer hard grind and hanging on in there’?
  • Audit Advantage: Resilience, Rebooted

    Resilience - What does it mean to an auditor? Join us as we run through our 10 step programme to being a resilient auditor.
  • Audit Advantage: Motivation, the Force Within

    ‘Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who go out and get them’, Anon.
  • Audit Advantage: Building Better Relationships

    It goes without saying that building strong relationships is critical to your professional success. But you also need to consider your wider stakeholders, inside and outside your current role.
  • Audit Advantage: Giving and Receiving Feedback

    Nobody likes receiving criticism; most of us baulk at giving it, and some of us find it hard to convey, or accept, even the positive variety.
  • Why 'Try' is Your Biggest Lie

    'Tis the season of new year resolutions... here's our number one tip for making your goals a reality!
  • Audit Advantage: The Plain Principles of Prioritising

    There is no preamble; you need pragmatic, pertinent advice on how to prioritise at work, rest and play.
  • Tidsoptimism: charm or offensive?

    In all my extensive years of personal performance and productivity training, I cannot believe I have never before come across this wonderful word!
  • Audit Advantage: The Art & Science of Influencing

    Internal, external, systems or financial, you will, as an auditor, need to influence on a daily basis.
  • Emotionally Intelligent Email

    I've quoted it before, and I'll quote it again, but are you aware that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is more critical to your professional success than the intellectual variety?
  • Audit Advantage: Managing Conflict

    So low level conflict is everywhere; at work, at home, with our loved ones, in our economic, socio, political environs. Avoidance is possible, temporarily, but it's not a sustainable strategy.
  • Down with the Delegates

    It's crazy conference season and as a veteran circuit speaker, this is the peak time of my working year. Closely akin to the external auditor's January equivalent (those of us with the glut of December year ends and insane international reporting deadlines), it feels like a full twelve months ar...