Matthew Leitch

Matthew Leitch writes on risk management and internal control for IRMI.com.

Through his research and consulting, he aims to make control less costly, more fun, and more effective. Mr. Leitch is a chartered accountant with a BSc in psychology from University College London. Until late 2002, he worked as a consultant in risk management and systems for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he pioneered new methods for designing internal control systems for large-scale business and financial processes, through projects for internationally known clients.

Mr. Leitch's interests include risk and uncertainty management, cognitive psychology, mathematics, internal control systems, design, the Internet, and human knowledge.

Mr Leitch has published extensively on his own Web sites and also in trade publications. He aims to bring creativity to internal controls design (see www.internalcontrolsdesign.co.uk, www.managedluck.co.uk, and www.dynamicmanagement.me.uk).

Articles on IRMI.com

Risk Management: Internal Control

Internal Control Disaster: Fiasco at Heathrow (April 2008)

Efficient Samples for Control and Audit (January 2008)

The Startling Economics of Controls Documentation Review (November 2007)

How To Test Fewer Key Controls in a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Project (July 2007)

Clear Thinking and "Risk Appetite" (April 2007)

The Psychology of Devising Internal Controls (January 2007)

COSO's New Guidance for Smaller Organizations (November 2006)

Promoting Good Management of Risk and Uncertainty (August 2006)

Practical Word Choices for Risk Managers (April 2006)

Seven Frontiers of Internal Control and Risk Management (January 2006)

Controls Design for Efficient Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley's Section 404 (October 2005)

Time To Put Numbers on Internal Controls (August 2005)

Why the COSO Frameworks Need Improvement (April 2005)

How To Cut Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Costs (January 2005)

Internal Control and Leaking Profits (October 2004)

Risk Management versus Internal Control (June 2004)

Embedded Risk Management: The Auditors' Contribution (January 2004)

Innovating in the Face of Internal Control Regulations (January 2004)

Embedding Risk Management: Easier, Faster, Better (October 2003)

Auditors and Risk Management (July 2003)