Dan Swanson is a 30-year internal audit veteran, who was formerly the Director of Professional Practices at the Institute of Internal Auditors. Dan has completed audit projects for over 30 different organisations, spending almost 10 years in government auditing (federal, provincial and municipal levels), and the rest in the private sector, mainly in the financial services, transportation and health sectors. Dan has completed more than 50 IT conversion audits and a dozen comprehensive audits of the IT function.

• 1: Introduction to Internal Audit2: The Professional Practice of Internal Audit3: Improving Internal Audit Results4: My Favorites5: IIA Related Guidance6: Priorities for the Coming Decade7: Tackling IT Audit8: Healthcare Internal Auditing9: IT Audit Checklists10: AuditNet Dan Swanson's Columns11: IT World Canada: IT Security Resource Blog12: Sentinel: The IT Governance Newsletter13: CIO Canada: IT Management Columns14: Keeping Our Kids Safe!15: Learn from the Past and ‘Think'

'Dan is one of the few widely published champions of Internal Auditing and we would all do well to follow his lead with this volume of distilled knowledge. Well done'