Interviewing Style Synopsis Questions vary in style and content. These rules for developing the right questions and avoiding the wrong questions should help all internal auditors to ask cutting edge questions in their engagements.

Source: Tolley’s Internal Auditor’s Handbook (2005: A4.2.30 & A4.2.31, pp. 440–442), by Professor Andrew D. Chambers. Published by LexisNexis Group, Great Britain. Reproduced with permission.

After Reading the Case Study Consider:

1. How do you train internal audit staff in your organization to ask the right types of questions?

2. How do you use and monitor the types of questions in your internal auditing to seek information relevant and important for your engagements’ objectives?

3. How do you choose questions in your engagements to be at the cutting edge of internal auditing?