Internal Audit Best Practices and Fundamental Principles

Learning Objectives

• To identify the goals of internal auditing
• To explore annual risk assessment standards 
• To identify the fraud, fraud triangle, and red flag indicators
• To recognize how the audit risk assessment integrates with Engagement-level Risk Management
• To identify key steps in-depth in the Internal audit process
• To explore Audit report writing and 
• To identify some of the hot topics to stay updated

Course Description

Internal audit is a forward-looking audit function that should provide insight, oversight, and foresight around an organization’s current and future risk and control. Especially, in a modern-day fast-paced cut-throat business environment an internal auditor is required to stay relevant despite the technology-enabled business transformation. It is expected in such a way that shows rich in terms of organizing and managing resources and technology to deliver quality services. 

Though through learning basic concepts and identifying practical aspects internal auditors develop the gaps in their practice, there is still a need to identify how they can excel in the field of auditing.  In this online CPE webinar, the speaker is going to provide you an in-depth understanding of annual risk assessment, internal audit process, and audit report writing. These subjects are at the heart of the subject and provide a complete overview of the key aspects to improve for internal auditors. 

This online Auditing CPE webinar provides one of the unique perspectives for the industry aspirants and professionals that assist in developing as well as revitalizing their aspects on the basic as well as technical fronts. The speaker covers a wide variety of subject that provides the learning as well as application aspects using interactive tools such as discussions, exercises, quizzes, and guidance with the rich years of experience to explore the findings and conclusions on the theoretical learning. 

This Online CPE webinar covers the following key topics:

• What is an internal audit?
• Internal audit process
• Annual risk assessment standards
• What is fraud? What are key red flag indicators for fraud?
• Engagement-level risk and its management
• Audit report writing
• Few hot topics that will keep you relevant.

Overview

• What is the Goal of Internal Auditing?

  6 mins
• Institute of Internal Auditors Professional Standards (IPPF)

  28 mins
• Budget vs Audit Plan Approvals

  69 mins
• Engagement Initiation / Pre-Planning

  94 mins
• Presenting Observations

  145 mins
• Characteristics of Emerging Risks

  165 mins
• Emerging Risks: Conflicts of Interest

  201 mins
• Let's do a Quick Survey - How much do you know about fraud?

  225 mins
• Red Flag Indicators

  270 mins
• some Internal Audit Considerations

  312 mins