Auditoria interna aumenta relevância nas organizações

Eles formam uma das carreiras mais brilhantes e bem-sucedidas do mundo. No Brasil, estima-se que, entre o setor público e setor privado, estejam atuando na área aproximadamente 35 mil auditores internos. A atividade é hoje compreendida como uma forte aliada das empresas e instituições. A prova disso são os recentes escândalos descobertos por estes profissionais. Em janeiro de 2010, um trabalho realizado pela auditoria interna do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (Inep) constatou falhas na licitação, no pagamento e no contrato entre o instituto e o Consórcio Nacional de Avaliação e Seleção (Connasel) para realização das provas do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio, o Enem. Os auditores descobriram que o Inep pagaria R$ 8 milhões a mais para execução das provas. Outro fato balançou um dos maiores veículos de comunicação brasileira e foi fruto da capacidade investigativa dos profissionais de auditoria. Identificou-se um rombo em mais de R$ 1 milhão, desviado por profissionais que trabalhavam na realização do quadro “Construindo um Sonho” do SBT. 

De acordo com o vice-presidente de Auditoria Interna do Walmart, Alexandre Apparecido, a imagem deste profissional estava desacreditada até o ano 2000. A partir de 2002, ela foi recuperada quando a auditora Cynthia Cooper, vice-presidente da WorldCom, segunda maior provedora de serviços de telefonia dos EUA, anunciou que iria poupar à companhia um prejuízo de US$ 3,85 bilhões. Para Apparecido, este foi o mais importante acontecimento da história da auditoria interna no mundo.

Os momentos de crise econômica também repercutem nas instituições, no entanto, o presidente do Instituto dos Auditores Internos do Brasil - IIA Brasil, Oswaldo Basile, aponta os períodos turbulentos como positivos para a carreira. “Em períodos de instabilidade financeira, com redução do nível de atividade econômica, o auditor é fundamental para ajudar as organizações a superarem os diversos impactos negativos em suas atividades e atingirem seus planos e metas, como lucratividade, perenidade e competitividade.”

As reduções de custos e cortes de pessoal são ações comuns em períodos de baixa e podem gerar enfraquecimento ou até mesmo ausência de controles importantes com exposição a riscos que podem trazer sérios prejuízos para a organização. “Esta é uma função que não deve ser vista como custo, mas como investimento, com retorno praticamente garantido”, recomenda Basile.

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The longer WorldCom Chief Audit Executive Cynthia Cooper stares at the entries in front of her, the more sinister they seem. But the CFO is badgering her to delay her team's audit of the company's books and directing others to block Cooper's efforts. Still, something in the pit of her stomach tells her to keep digging. Cooper takes readers behind the scenes on a riveting, real-time journey as she and her team work at night and behind closed doors to expose the largest fraud in corporate history. Whom can they trust? Could she lose her job? Should she fear for her physical safety?

In Extraordinary Circumstances , she recounts for the first time her journey from her close family upbringing in a small Mississippi town, to working motherhood and corporate success, to the pressures of becoming a whistleblower, to being named one of Time's 2002 Persons of the Year. She also provides a rare insider's glimpse into the spectacular rise and fall of WorldCom, a telecom titan, the darling of Wall Street, and a Cinderella story for Mississippi.

With remarkable candor, Cooper discusses her struggle to overcome these challenges, and how she has found healing through sharing the lessons learned with the next generation. This book reminds us all that ethical decision-making is not forged at the crossroads of major events but starts in childhood, "decision by decision and brick by brick."

At a time when corporate dishonesty is dominating public attention, Extraordinary Circumstances makes it clear that the tone set at the top is critical to fostering an ethical environment in the work-place. Provocative, moving, and intensely personal, Extraordinary Circumstances is a wake-up call to corporate leaders and an intimate glimpse at a scandal that shook the business world.


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Extraordinary Circumstances, The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower

Extraordinary Circumstances, The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower

This book reminds us all that ethical decision-making is not forged at the crossroads of major events but starts in childhood, "decision by decision and brick ...

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Required: As directed by your instructor, read the story of Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom whistleblower: Cooper,C. (2008). Extraordinary circumstances: The ...

Ethical issues in business, a philosophical approach

Ethical issues in business, a philosophical approach

Truth Telling Case Study Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Emily Mead • Patricia H. Werhane In late May of 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the 38-year-old Vice-President of ...

Financial Statement Fraud, Prevention and Detection

Financial Statement Fraud, Prevention and Detection

On June 17, Cynthia Cooper and Glyn Smith began a series of informal confrontations. David Myers, WorldCom's controller, told all: He admitted that he knew ...

The new forensics, investigating corporate fraud and the theft of intellectual property

The new forensics, investigating corporate fraud and the theft of intellectual property

The complaint summarized the results of a meeting held between Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom's Vice President of Internal Audit, certain other members of her ...

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Cynthia Cooper – named one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year for her role in unraveling the fraud at WorldCom - is an internationally recognized ...

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When TIME called Cynthia Cooper in 2002 for an on-the-record interview — her first since ... As a WorldCom employee, Cooper had never intended to go public (a ...

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WorldCom Whistle-blower Cynthia Cooper. What she was feeling and thinking as she took the steps that, as it turned out, would change Corporate America. ...