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Auditor rotation: a bad governance idea; Would you change your doctor every three years believing you'd get better medical attention?

Publication: Directors & Boards
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Auditor rotation: a bad governance idea; Would you change your doctor every three years believing you'd get better medical attention?(GUEST COLUMN)

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WHENEVER A DEBACLE grabs hold of the headlines, debate begins to offer "answers." Intelligent public policy crafters must pause and sort out such answers from "really bad ideas." The auditor rotation proposal is one of those bad ideas.

If you were forced to change your doctor every few years, do you believe you would receive better medical attention--or worse? Is value added from the experience that doctor has had with your personal medical history? Or, is the benefit of "a fresh look" dominant? While the latter might be sought through second opinions, who would voluntarily embrace the idea of mandatory rotation of a personal physician?

Yet why do people believe the diagnosis of...

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