On this three-day training course you will learn how to use risk assessment -- generally applied to annual audit plans -- to help build individual audit programmes that will boost auditor productivity and provide the control assurance required by Sarbanes-Oxley. You will explore the differences between traditional, controlbased risk assessment and a new, business risk-based approach that addresses management's concerns at the individual audit level. This progressive risk-based approach will demonstrate how assurance and consultative auditing can be performed simultaneously to maximise your audit resources and generate high-impact outcomes.
You will learn how to recognise primary risks critical to any organisation and to evaluate if there are appropriate controls in financial, information systems, compliance, and operational audits. You will then investigate the innovative methodology in a practical, case-based work session that will lead you step-by-step through the development of audit programmes that can be executed in your own organisation. You are encouraged to bring an audit subject and background information to use in this class exercise. |
