LAKE MARY, Fla. (16, June 2021) \u2014 The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the internal audit profession\u2019s widely recognized advocate, educator, and provider of standards, guidance, and certifications, presented Rick Wright Jr., CIA, with the 2021 John B. Thurston Award for his article, \u201cAn RPA Road Test.\u201d His winning article details his internal audit department\u2019s pilot program to implement robotic process automation. <\/p>\n
The award, named after the internal audit pioneer who played a key role in establishing The IIA and who served as its first leader, recognizes the author of the article voted as the most outstanding work published in Internal Auditor<\/em> magazine during the previous year.<\/p>\n Wright\u2019s article appeared in the April 2020<\/a> issue of the magazine.\u200b He is director of internal audit and enterprise risk management for Yellow Corp. Wright has more than 25 years of experience in internal audit practice and training, including as an adjunct professor teaching accounting, finance, fraud, and strategic management courses. He also is the author of several Internal Audit Foundation books, including The Internal Auditor\u2019s Guide to Risk Assessment, Internal Auditing: Uncover the Myths, Discover the Value, <\/em>and Agile Auditing: Transforming the Internal Audit Process<\/em>.<\/p>\n Additionally, The IIA presented the following Global Certification Awards during its annual International Conference, co-hosted by IIA-Singapore:<\/p>\n The CIA is the only globally recognized internal audit certification. It represents the knowledge, skills, and competencies gained to effectively carry out professional responsibilities for any internal audit worldwide.<\/p>\n For more information about IIA awards, which recognize contributions to the internal audit profession and The IIA in areas such as service, research, certification, and writing for IIA publications, visit either website, Global<\/a> or North America<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n Media contact:<\/strong> Suzanne Dawson About The Institute of Internal Auditors<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LAKE MARY, Fla. (16, June 2021) \u2014 The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the internal audit profession\u2019s widely recognized advocate, educator, and provider of standards, guidance, and certifications, presented Rick Wright Jr., CIA, with the 2021 John B. Thurston Award for his article, \u201cAn RPA Road Test.\u201d His winning article details his internal audit department\u2019s […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iia-naujienos"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is the internal audit profession\u2019s most widely recognized advocate, educator, and provider of standards, guidance, and certifications. Established in 1941, The IIA today serves more than 200,000 members in nearly 200 countries and territories. The IIA\u2019s global headquarters are in Lake Mary, Fla. For more information, visit www.theiia.org<\/a> or www.globaliia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n