John Kaneklides, CIA
John Kaneklides is an owner and co-founder at The Audit Library. He has over a decade of financial institution and audit industry experience, and has served in Internal Audit and consultant roles.
John has helped grow The Audit Library from an idea into a leading document subscription service and consulting firm with hundreds of clients. John is a contributor to the document Library and to The Audit Library Blog, where he educates readers about using their potential and available resources to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. John serves Credit Union clients as an assurance consultant, focusing on his passion for Quality Assurance Reviews, where his professional background brings a unique understanding of the challenges faced by Internal Auditors. He strives to provide practical advice and real-world solutions to benefit his clients. John regularly volunteers and performs speaking engagements for various industry organizations, and contributes to professional publications and podcasts.
In addition to his various roles at The Audit Library, John is a nationally recognized classical singer, and regularly performs concerts and operatic productions. John also volunteers on the Board of Directors as Treasurer for Artists Relief Tree, an organization dedicated to supporting artists in need.
John holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters Degree from Winthrop University. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
Other Posts by John

Preparing for a Quality Assurance Review
Internal audit spends most of its time assessing various functions and processes across the organization. But how well does it know itself? After all, Aristotle

Remote Auditing Is Here To Stay
Over the past year and a half, our lives and the internal audit industry as a whole have changed drastically. Many of our clients learned

Fraud Spotlight: An Employee Watch List Helps Uncover a Decade-Long Fraud
This is the latest in a series of blog posts highlighting real auditors who have uncovered major frauds. We’ll break down the frauds, explore auditing

2020’s The Best of The Audit Library
What a year 2020 has been. We have all had to endure struggles on a personal and professional level that we could not have anticipated.

Is The Audit Library the Netflix of the Internal Audit World?
Lately, many of us have been spending a lot more time at home. And for me, that means I spend more time doing two things:

Information Technology and Security Audits: What to Outsource and What Internal Auditors Can do for the Best Results
Information Technology and Security can be a tricky topic for many Internal Auditors. For most of us, we know we don’t have the technical knowledge

The 10-step Process for Crafting the Perfect Internal Audit Document
When I began my career as an auditor, writing audit programs and other technical documents was NOT my favorite part of the job. I loved

Internal Auditor Training in the Era of COVID-19
Over the past few months, the landscape for professional training has drastically changed. Due to travel restrictions and concerns over social distancing, the ACUIA was

COVID-19 Altering Credit Union Internal Auditing: Part-2
Last week I interviewed three Credit Union Chief Audit Executives from across the United States to see how they are altering their daily activities and

COVID-19 Altering Credit Union Internal Auditing : Part-1
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic we want to keep our readers up-to-date with how this crisis affects Credit Unions and more specifically, Credit Union Internal Auditors.

Auditing in Times of Uncertainty
Coronavirus (Covid-19) has escalated from a few isolated cases in a foreign country, to a global pandemic affecting all aspects of American life. There is

2019’s Best of The Audit Library
At the beginning of the year, I often see a lot of “Best of” lists counting down the best of a certain category from the

The Audit Library: From the Past, to the Present, and Beyond
I’d like to take a brief break from our typical professional advice blog, and share a bit more about the inspiration behind The Audit Library.

Honing Your Approach to Internal Auditing: Three Practical Strategies
I began my career as an Internal Auditor at a large credit union one week after I graduated college. All the new information I gleaned