Internal Auditing 101: Internal Audit Principles and Techniques
Event description
New Auditors need to be focused on getting results that will add value to the Audit Department. Internal audits are an important requirement for effective corporate governance.
The internal auditor is at the front line in evaluating management's internal control, assessing the accuracy of financial information, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. Learn how to perform these important duties and comply with the professional auditing standards.
"Internal Auditing 101" is the perfect CPE course to introduce internal auditing to someone new to the field or to someone who has not had formal training. This course provides an overview of the "audit life cycle", including audit planning and risk assessment, conducting fieldwork, interviews, walkthroughs and tests of controls, and audit reporting and follow-up.
CCS provides the latest guidance for a risk-based, top-down audit approach, key audit terminology, audit workpaper documentation, and "selling" the benefits of the audit. This event presents an overview of the professional standards (IIA, ISACA, AICPA), frameworks (COSO, COBIT), and soft-skill competencies an auditor needs to become competent. This seminar walks the participants through the basics of being an internal auditor. It is ideal for auditors who want to ensure that they follow approved, prescribed audit standards and apply the appropriate audit tools and techniques.
This timely, eight hour CPE internal audit training event covers the basics of how to create an effective audit plan, perform the audits, generate workpapers, and effectively communicate the results.