How to Perform an Internal Audit

We are glad to bring you a course to learn how to perform an internal audit.

This course is ideal for new or future internal auditors, as well as anyone who wants to learn how to assess operations, including people working in controls functions such as Risk Management, Internal Control, Compliance or Information Security.

The course will give you the knowledge and tools necessary to perform internal audits, starting from how to plan them, how to perform and how to report on the results of the engagement.

It is taught by Adrian Resag, an experienced Chief Audit Executive who has also been teaching for nearly 2 decades.

You will learn: 

• How to perform internal audit engagements.

• The workflow of internal audit engagements.

• To plan audits and determine their scope and objectives.

• Audit techniques for gathering information.

• To create process maps, working papers and risk-control matrices.

• To use statistical and non-statistical sampling methods and analytical tests.

• About the persuasiveness of information and about different types of evidence.

• About engagement supervision and performance appraisals for internal audits.

• How to write internal audit reports and communicate engagement results.

• About the acceptance of risks and the monitoring of progress.

  
  

The course covers:

Planning Engagements

• Understand how to properly plan engagements by determining their objectives, criteria and scope.

• Create working papers which conform with the Standards and learn about different ways an internal audit can be staffed.

Performing Engagements

• Learn how to collect engagement information and then analyze and evaluate it. Learn how to supervise engagements.

Communicating Engagement Progress and Results

• Learn how to communicate engagement results and the process of acceptance of risks. Learn how to monitor progress on the implementation status of internal audit recommendations.