Corporate Governance Starts Before Any Consultant Arrives with Evan Tsai

About this episode

Kelly Paxton interviews Evan Tsai about the importance of corporate governance and its implications in the business world.

What does your grandmother have to do with corporate governance? More than you might think. In this episode, Kelly Paxton sits down with Evan Tsai, an auditor, compliance veteran, and newly minted founder of Phoenix Ascent, for a conversation that travels from the fraud pandemic in Taiwan, to a book theft at an auditors' conference, to why governance starts long before any consultant walks through the door. After 20 years in audit, risk, and compliance, Evan kept seeing the same movie play ou...

People in this episode

Host: Kelly Paxton

Guest: Evan Tsai

Topics covered

• corporate governance
• audit
• compliance
• fraud
• business ethics

Keywords

• corporate governance
• audit
• fraud pandemic
• compliance
• business ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Phoenix Ascent

Places: Taiwan

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