James Roth is President of a training firm based in the US. James is devoted to identifying and communicating the best of current internal audit practice. He has more than thirty years of progressive internal audit and teaching experience. In 2008 he was given the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award, the IIA's most prestigious award for contributions to the advancement of the internal audit profession.

Jim’s extensive work with control models and control self-assessment has made him one of the world’s leading authorities on evaluating soft controls. The IIA recognized his expertise in the February 1998 issue of Internal Auditor with the article, “Soft, Dangerous, Essential: An Interview with Jim Roth.” He was also interviewed on the same topic in 2003 in the Netherlands publication De Accountant. His major works related to this topic include:

• Evaluating Internal Control: A COSO-Based Approach. (IIA seminar, 1995)
• A COSO Implementation Guide (IIA, 1995)
• Control Model Implementation: Best Practices (IIA Research Foundation, 1997)
• Value-Added Business Controls: The Right Way to Manage Risk (IIA seminar, 1997)

Recent projects include Four Approaches to Enterprise Risk Management … and the Sarbanes-Oxley Connection (IIA, 2007), Best Practices: Value-Added Approaches of Four Innovative Internal Auditing Departments (IIA, 2000), and the research study, Adding Value: Seven Roads to Success (IIA Research Foundation, 2002). His expertise in value-added auditing was recognized in the May 2001 issue of Financial Accounting & Management Report with the article, “Value-Added Internal Auditing: Interview with James Roth.”

Jim has published twelve major products for the IIA International, as well as numerous articles on internal control and corporate governance. He is a frequent speaker at internal audit and corporate governance conferences. An energetic and motivating speaker, Roth is one of the IIA’s most highly rated presenters.

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