CAE Strategic Relationships Building Rapport with the Executive Suite

Learn how Strategic Relationships can improve your Performance Effectiveness Chief audit executives CAEs intuitively know that building bridges with the executive suite is critical for performance effectiveness. This insightful collection of case studies shows CAEs how to build and leverage their relationship with the executive suite for better organizational outcomes.

This report uses the relational coordination framework to uncover the core elements of successful business relationships for CAEs and their executive suite counterparts. Candid observations from CAEs and CEOs at large organizations in the U.S. and Europe reveal how to Create shared goals about internal audit s role and priorities, Build shared knowledge about the organization and internal audit s role, Establish mutual respect for internal audit capabilities and leadership, Enable high quality communication that anticipates and responds to organizational imperatives.

Through CAE Strategic Relationships, you can revitalize relationships, enhance communications, and build better rapport with your executive suite today.

Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi, DBA, CPA, is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University. He has contributed to more than 100 publications, including many articles and books on internal auditing. He has been the recipient of funding from various granting agencies, including four from The IIARF CBOK 2010, CBOK 2006, a monograph on Continuous Internal Auditing in 2005, and the current monograph. Sridhar Ramamoorti, PhD, CIA, CFSA, CGAP, CRMA, is an associate professor in the School of Accountancy and director, Board Culture and Behavioral Dynamics with the Center for Corporate Governance at Kennesaw State University. Possessing a blended academic practitioner background, Sri has been an accountancy faculty member at the University of Illinois, and spent more than 12 years in public accounting practice with Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, and culminating as a corporate governance partner with Grant Thornton. A 25 year member of The IIA, he was previously chairman of The IIA Academic Relations Committee, a trustee of The IIA Research Foundation, and currently serves on The IIAs Global Ethics Committee. Most recently, he was co chair of the CBOK 2010 Study of The IIA Research Foundation, conducted under the auspices of the William G. Bishop III, CIA, Memorial Fund. Gerrit Sarens, PhD, CIA, CCSA, is an associate professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has teaching experience in auditing, management accounting, and financial accounting. His major research areas are internal auditing and corporate governance. He has published more than a dozen articles on internal auditing in international academic journals, and has contributed to both CBOK projects 2006 and 2010, as well as a research monograph funded by the ECIIA, 2008. Gerrit also supervises a number of PhD students in the internal audit field.