Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting another of Compliance Week’s occasional editorial roundtables, where we gather a small group of compliance or governance executives to discuss issues of the day in corporate compliance. We hosted a dozen internal audit executives in New York, to talk about internal auditing’s transformation these days into a much more strategic, risk-management sort of role.

I found the conversation fascinating as usual, and we’ll have a full article covering all points raised in our Nov. 6 edition. But for now, let me fire off a few quick thoughts.