Key Aspects of the Modern Internal Audit Function

Introduction :

This course is introduced to you by the International Academy of Human Resources Development (IAHRD). Our courses are specially designed to meet your needs, explained to you by experts with a long experience in the field.

 Facing the challenges related to the changing world economy and having to cope with these changes is something not easy to do. This course will help you do so through giving updated knowledge and making you able to stay up-to-date all the time. This course will also help you develop more proactive relationships with the Audit Committee and auditing corporate social responsibility.

Objectives:

After attending this course, participants will be able to:

1. Apply recent practice advisory statements.
2. Benchmark your IA function against worldwide best practice
3. Build proactive audit committee relationships.
4. Understand the internal audit role and the changes that has occurred on it.

Content:

Module 1:

1. The signifi­cant changes in the Internal Audit role
2. Meeting stakeholder expectations
3. Quality assuring your IA function

Module 2:

1. Benchmarking or quality assuring your IA function
2. Recent professional guidance and practice advisory statements
3. Proactive audit committee relationships

Module 3:

1. Building world-class internal audit teams
2. Challenges for Internal Audit risk and governance
3. Risk management and Internal Audit

Module 4:

1. Corporate Governance and the IA role
2. Strategic audit planning
3. Managing the audit process

Module 5:

1. Auditing more complex business areas
2. Working paper review.
3. Investigations and internal audit.
4. Consultancy assignments.

Who Should Attend?

1. Heads of Internal Audit.
2. Audit Managers.
3. Directors responsible for Internal Audit
4. Heads of other assurance functions such as Compliance or QualityAssurance.
5. This course is specifi­cally senior audit professionals.
6. Interested candidates.