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The Internal Auditing Training Course is designed to provide a strong and practical foundation in the key principles, frameworks, and methodologies that shape today’s internal audit function. As organisations face increasing operational complexity, regulatory expectations, and governance demands, internal auditors must demonstrate a deep understanding of risk-based auditing, corporate governance, and assurance practices. This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the Internal Audit profession and its evolving responsibilities within modern organisations.
Participants will explore the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), audit processes, and essential tools required to execute audit engagements with clarity and professionalism. The Internal Auditing Course also provides essential insights into the integration of audit functions with risk management, compliance, and corporate governance, ensuring participants understand how these areas collaborate to enhance organisational integrity and accountability.
Through real-world perspectives and structured learning, the Fundamentals of Internal Auditing Course equips delegates with the knowledge to assess governance structures, evaluate risk exposure, enhance audit performance, and contribute to improved organisational oversight. By understanding the full audit cycle and the interrelationships between audit, risk, and compliance, participants leave with the confidence to support their organisation’s governance objectives.
This Internal Auditing Course is ideal for professionals involved in internal audit, risk, compliance, and governance functions across all industries. It will greatly benefit:
This Internal Auditing Training Course uses a combination of structured presentations, interactive discussions, case studies, and team exercises to maximise understanding and practical application. Learning techniques include:
This blended approach ensures participants gain practical skills and are able to apply internal auditing concepts effectively in their workplace.
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The relationship between internal audit and corporate governance is addressed as the foundational context for the course, covering governance definitions, principles, and the obstacles that prevent effective governance from being implemented in practice. The Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit triangle is examined alongside the role of the audit committee in overseeing both internal and external audit activity. Delegates gain a clear understanding of where internal audit sits within the governance structure and what it is accountable for delivering to the board and audit committee.
Developing a risk-based audit plan is covered as an applied discipline, addressing how audit risks are identified and classified, how the plan is structured and presented for audit committee approval, and how the plan is designed to minimise the recurrence of audit findings. Writing the audit report — including how to structure it effectively and address challenges in communicating findings — is also covered, giving delegates a complete view of the deliverables that a risk-based audit engagement produces.
Risk Control Self-Assessment is covered within the risk management content, addressing what RCSA involves, how it is used to identify and evaluate risks and controls at an operational level, and how internal audit engages with RCSA outputs as part of its risk-based audit planning and engagement process. Delegates learn how RCSA differs from a traditional audit-driven control assessment and how it can be used to strengthen the organisation's first and second line of defence before internal audit intervention is required.
The evolution of internal auditing from systems-based to risk-based approaches is addressed as a structured progression, covering why the shift occurred, what risk-based audit methodology involves, and how audit units move into risk-based audit practices in practice. Delegates learn the fundamental differences between the two approaches and gain the conceptual and practical foundation needed to begin applying risk-based audit methodology to their own audit planning and engagement execution.
Enterprise risk management fundamentals, risk taxonomy identification, Risk Control Self-Assessment, and the operational risk management framework are all addressed as part of the relationship between internal audit and risk management. Internal controls — including their definition, objectives, and the roles and responsibilities involved — are covered alongside the latest trend of auditing the control environment itself. Delegates gain a working understanding of how internal audit and risk management functions interact and how audit activity is shaped by the organisation's broader risk framework.
Risk-based compliance is addressed as an evolution of conventional rule-based compliance, covering what it involves, how it prioritises compliance effort based on risk exposure rather than regulatory checklist, and what the roles and responsibilities of the compliance function look like within a risk-based framework. The course covers international AML and CTF standards alongside money laundering and terrorist financing threats and methods, giving delegates a working understanding of how compliance and internal audit intersect in high-risk regulatory areas.
