Which of the following would be a violation of the objectivity of a certified internal auditor?
1. Accepting a motivational book from a major vendor.
2. Attending a professional sporting event as the guest of a corporate supplier.
3. Performing an internal audit engagement for a division 18 months after having controllership responsibility for that division.
4. Designing and implementing a corporate-wide utilities cost containment program.

Which of the following examples best describes how an internal auditor should behave while listening to an engagement client talk about human resource process problems?

What role, if any, should the internal audit activity have in the process of following up on observations and recommendations made by the external auditors?

After several years in the engineering department, an engineer was transferred to the internal audit department. One month later, the new auditor was assigned to an assurance engagement for the engineering department. When the auditor's former engineering supervisor suggested a change in the sample selection method, the auditor consulted with the audit supervisor. They determined that the suggested method would not be as representative and that the original selection method should be used.
In this situation, the auditor:

An internal auditor for a large computer company suspects that returned computer systems are being repackaged as new products and shipped to other customers before the defects have been repaired. Which of the following would be the most persuasive piece of evidence in support of the auditor's suspicions?