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This course will provide audit executives and managers with tools and techniques to assist them in auditing governance, strategy, ethics and risk management, ensuring that their internal audit functions comply with Standard 2100.

Internal Auditors continuously face Leadership challenges in assisting their organizations to achieve their strategic objectives. Chief Audit Executives, their deputies and internal audit managers need to work closely with business leaders, boards, audit committees, peers and their own audit teams. Now more than ever, leadership, stakeholder relations and influencing skills are becoming as important as managing a team, planning and delivering insightful internal audit assurance and consulting engagements. This course aims to introduce internal auditors to various leadership development areas with the objective to encourage them to participate in further leadership development interventions.

Gathering information from interviews is an integral part of the audit process but getting to the truth requires more than simple questions. Learn significantly more about an organisation when you conduct interviews that probe more deeply, follow up on signs of potential deception and politely, but assertively, pursue evasiveness.

This is a refresher course for anyone who has previously attended the 2-day BSQP, 3-day PEQA or 5-day QAIP courses. The course will bring you up to date with latest developments and assist you in persuing continuous conformance with the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF)

How will this course benefit you? Assessing organizational governance requires a firm understanding of the characteristics, structure, and accountability processes prevalent in international, national, regional, and local governments. At the same time, governance structures and processes must be customized according to the organization’s complexity and political, cultural, economic, and regulatory environments. Regardless of the nature of the organization, a principles-based approach to assessing organizational governance will help auditors provide assurance that the public is being well-served.

According to a News24 article dated 04 December 2017, South Africa has an “ethics problem”. As a result, Internal auditors are facing increased ethical challenges and how they handle them determines their own value and their organization’s value. This training course contains videos, case studies and practical exercises that promote discussion of potential ethical dilemmas that auditors may encounter and how to audit the ethical climate of an organisation. The course is structured in 4 modules going from global, to country, to organisational to personal.

The IIA’s CIA Learning System is a CIA review course designed to meet the unique needs of busy internal audit professionals. Developed under the guidance of CIA-certified subject matter experts, this program will provide you with the tools necessary to successfully prepare for the CIA exam in the time frame and learning format that best suits you.

COVID-19 has shown us how import business continuity programs are for the sustainability of organisations. Chief Audit Executives (CAE’s) have been challenged to educate corporate executives on the risks, controls, costs, and benefits of adopting a Business Continuity Management (BCM) program. The CAE must understand the role of BCM as one of three elements of an Emergency Management Program.

More and more organisations are teaching their key people to think strategically. This makes for more efficient planning, smoother transitions in the time of change and fewer insoluble problems. This course will show you the techniques and set you on the road to efficient and clever strategic thinking.

Course Content To determine whether control systems are adequate to minimise/manage the risks. Identifying and analysing the relevant risks and the accompanying controls to validate whether the controls linked to the risks are adequate in order to manage the risks. This step is performed during the planning phase and provides guidance as to whether the audit should continue as an assurance engagement or whether the assignment should be redesigned as a consulting engagement. Participants will be provided with the essential tips on how to evaluate the adequacy of controls during the planning phase of the audit. Working through case studies, within a group format.

To determine whether control systems are adequate to minimise/manage the risks. Identifying and analysing the relevant risks and the accompanying controls to validate whether the controls linked to the risks are adequate in order to manage the risks. This step is performed during the planning phase and provides guidance as to whether the audit should continue as an assurance engagement or whether the assignment should be redesigned as a consulting engagement. Participants will be provided with the essential tips on how to evaluate the adequacy of controls during the planning phase of the audit. Working through case studies, within a group format.

Course provides auditors with the knowledge and tools to shift from traditional periodic audits to real-time, data-driven continuous auditing. Continuous auditing is an evolving approach that leverages technology to monitor and analyse data and transactions in real time, offering enhanced assurance and a proactive risk management approach.