Effective Internal Audit Training Course

INTRODUCTION

Internal Audit provides a number of important services to an entity’s management. These include detecting and preventing fraud, testing internal control, and monitoring compliance with an entity’s policy and procedures and government regulation. Internal Audit helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes. This extensive training program addresses the functions, role and the importance of internal audit for any given organizational structure and covers each of its aspect thoroughly.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course the participant should be able to:

• The scope and the function of Internal Audit
• Internal Audit Activities and Standards
• Various Types of Internal Auditing Assignments
• Operational, compliance & financial internal audit
• Internal audit fieldwork guidelines and techniques
• Risk identification, controls identification and controls testing in Internal Audit
• Internal audit test tools
• Most Effective sampling techniques in an internal audit assignment in terms of sample size or sample selection
• Fraud and Internal auditor’s responsibility once fraud has been detected.

DURATION

5 Days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This training course is the best suite for:

• Those who have educational background in internal auditing and would like to pursue their career in the stated field
• Junior or aspiring auditors who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of the internal audit function
• Professionals in Finance who would like to gain the grasp of internal audit
• Career internal auditors who are willing to enhance their professional knowledge and understanding.

COURSE CONTENT

Risk and internal audit overview

• Definition of risk & Types of risk in an organization
• Functions of management: planning, organizing, implementing and controlling
• Defining internal audit
• Internal audit as a function of corporate governance
• Distinguishing internal from external auditing
• Scope of internal auditing: the internal audit charter
• Staffing the internal audit function
• Role of an audit committee.

Internal audit standards

• Attribute standards
• Performance standards.

Types of internal auditing

• Performance & Operational auditing
• Financial auditing: accounting cycles audited by the internal audit function
• Compliance auditing.

Internal audit implementation: fieldwork guidelines

• Information gathered by internal auditors
• 4 qualities of information
• Sources and nature of information
• Assessing the degree of persuasiveness
• Types of engagement procedures
• Internal audit test tools
• Observing, interviewing and examining records
• Internal audit working papers
• Best practices for managing working papers
• Retention policies
• Communicating fieldwork results and recommendations
• Legal considerations for communicating results
• Attributes of an observation or recommendation
• Disseminating results and exit meetings.

The fieldwork: risk-based auditing

• Defining management assertions
• Risk assessment process

• • Reason for risk based audit planning
  • Evaluating risks
  • Techniques to identify the auditable units
  • Criteria for selecting auditable units
  • Scoring and weighing risks
  • Prioritizing risk and developing audit plan
  • Methods to generate list of risks

• Identifying entity level controls to mitigate risks

• • Broad definition for types of controls
  • Essential components of effective internal control system: ‘COSO’ model
  • Criteria for unsatisfactory rating for control components
  • Methods to generate list of controls
  • Insights on flowcharting for understanding cycles and controls

• Testing of internal controls

• • Design and implementation of an internal control
  • Operating effectiveness of an internal control

• Tips and tools for audit sampling.

Fraud

• Definition and characteristics of fraud
• Internal auditor’s role in a fraud case.

Training Approach

This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.

Tailor-Made Course

This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: [email protected] Tel: +254 721 331 808

Training Venue

The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group at requested location all over the world. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, and buffet lunch.

Visa application, travel expenses, airport transfers, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant

Certification

Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.