Objectives:
In these five days you will cover
- Who should be consulted – including whether there a risk you are consulting too widely?
- Killer questions and follow up questions to help ensure that you don’t get too many ‘turkeys’ on the plan
- Best practice ways of linking the IA plan to key risk areas, whilst delivering core assurance areas
- How to factor in value and value add into the planning process
- How to address differences between Senior Management and the Audit Committee in relation to what they would like IA to do
- How to effectively address the question “Do you have enough resource”? in a way that gets a constructive debate going, without being a too overt plea for resource
- Best practices around longer term planning horizons, the annual plan and ad hoc audit work
- Ways to use the planning process as a way of deepening the relationship between the head of audit and senior stakeholders
- Uncover how to adopt a risk based approach to internal auditing
- Review enterprise risk management and how to effectively establish a framework in your organisation
- Evaluate internal audit’s readiness to adopt a risk based approach
- Develop a plan for how to implement risk based auditing
The Content:
- Developing the Annual Audit Plan
- Who should be consulted – including whether there a risk you are consulting too widely?
- Killer questions and follow up questions to help ensure that you don’t get too many ‘turkeys’ on the plan
- Best practice ways of linking the IA plan to key risk areas, whilst delivering core assurance areas
- How to factor in value and value add into the planning process
- How to address differences between Senior Management and the Audit Committee in relation to what they would like IA to do
- How to effectively address the question “Do you have enough resource”? in a way that gets a constructive debate going, without being a too overt plea for resource
- Best practices around longer term planning horizons, the annual plan and ad hoc audit work
- Ways to use the planning process as a way of deepening the relationship between the head of audit and senior stakeholders
- Risk Based Internal Auditing
- Uncover how to adop a risk based approach to internal auditing
- Review enterprise risk management and how to effectively establish a framework in your organisation
- Evaluate internal audit’s readiness to adopt a risk based approach
- Develop a plan for how to implement risk based auditing
