Cynthia Cooper, still an inspiration

Cynthia Cooper, still an inspiration. Remember Cynthia Cooper? The soft-spoken former chief audit executive at WorldCom was the one who blew her whistle after uncovering a lot of bad practices at her own firm. Since those days, which made her a minor celebrity, she seems to have done well as a speaker. She even has a book out. Judging from a recent event in San Francisco, covered by the San Francisco Chronicle, she's still something of a hero to internal auditors everywhere. It took courage to go over the head of her CFO boss--who later pleaded guilty to fraud--and present her findings directly to the audit committee. Sarbanes-Oxley represents, in some ways, a political solution to the problem of fraud, but Cooper and others like her make clear just how personal all this can get and how hard it is to do the right thing.  

For more:
- here's the San Francisco Chronicle article

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