I have returned – Only to reprise my role as confidant, to the Deputy Emissary of Audit Standards at the CAQ (Center for Audit Quality)

Long have I been awash in the turbulence of consultancy and in the misgivings of advisory chicanery. Neglect is clearly what I have turned upon my dear abonné. My bona fide apologies… no, nothing less…

One continues now, with the latest, the Wessenbeitzel family brought a son into our troubled terrestrial environs, hoping for the best. Hooded like a falcon, with crucial faculties obstructed, today’s parents carry an incapacitated optimism. Well held! I continue to lean into, fortify through deeds and bolster these young brave hearts, like the timbers my forbears laid into the mines! I should shout that brief typed refrain, if only it wouldn’t frighten the swans…

Now onto the news.

Well, a decent man, a man with whom I have paced the halls of the Center for Audit Quality. The noble and just, the Deputy Emissary of Audit Standards, Bertram Sixt. Who hatched the grand idea, you ask, to provide audit committees a questionnaire by which they would rate the performance of their auditors?… Why it was dear Bertram.
I often posit the following; “Why Bertram, have you decided to give so much to this vocation, is it because the nation holds your Center in an exalted regard?”
This will usually turn Bertram contemplative, leading to him regretting his current station and longing for his ancestral lands in Westphalia. He was especially voluble, this past weekend, and having received some recent responses to the afore mentioned questionnaires, desirous to recount an entertaining few…
Before he began, I mandatorily asked whether broadcasting these responses, conveyed to him in confidence, would cause him any professional harm… Bertram calmly lifted his snifter, nodded at the attendant, and patiently gazed into the addition of a full two fingers of Armagnac. Then, retrieving a dossier, he let out a chuckle, and began to read:
Tomorrow, the confidential responses, divulged through a haze of fine French brandy, by the renowned Deputy Emissary of Audit Standards.

~The Viceroy~