Raising the Bar
of Internal Audit

This Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course is designed to assist the auditors in understanding the organization’s business objectives & strategy to identify risks that create barriers to the organization’s achieving its objectives and executing its strategy successfully. This Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course will help you to promote the safety and soundness of the firms and to discover the benefits of an effective audit process.

This highly interactive Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course brings together the assurance & consulting skills designed to help you in supporting your organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes.

These skills will be developed through group exercises, case studies and other activities relevant to your organization.

This Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course will feature:

• Challenge in the design and operating effectiveness of the organization’s governance, risk management and internal control processes to strengthen those processes and keeping the appropriate executives
• Issues facing auditors and organizations as they seek to support management in their work
• Effective quality assurance and improvement program
• Required skills to be manage the balance between being an internal audit and a consultant
• Practice consultancy tools and techniques to help you plan and execute your work and to present your ideas logically and clearly
• The best practices guidance in the consultancy role of internal audit
• Knowledge and Skills Development to ensure tangible benefits for your organization

This Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course covers the knowledge, tools and techniques commonly used by consultant to o conduct an internal quality assessment, and to help you to become an effective consultant, and it will provide auditors with an understanding of the necessary consulting skills to enhance internal audit function.

At the end of this Aztech training course, you will be able to:

• Learn how to conduct an internal quality assessment as a benchmark and as preparation for an internal audit quality assurance
• Measure the efficiency of your internal audit function
• Develop your own road map to conformance with international standards for the professional practice of internal auditing
• Enhance skills in internal auditing and as well in risk management, governance and compliance (GRC Model)
• Learn how to develop a gap analysis to identifying where you already have a strong skills base and where you might need to strengthen them
• Understand the consultant responsibilities & services and how to be creative and to demonstrate how it can add value
• Discover skills to provide consultancy services as well as assurance services and learn how to use core skills to both an auditor and a consultant
• Use some of the tools and techniques commonly used by consultants in these areas
• Identify and practice facilitation skills and issues in your own environment

This Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course is open to all and will be useful to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit the following individuals:

• Auditors / Auditing Managers
• Accounting Executive / Managers
• Financial Reporting Managers
• Financial Executives / Managers / Controllers/Directors
• Budgeting Officers / Executives / Managers
• Business / Investment Analysts & Managers
• Regulatory Compliance Officers
• Commercial Analysts, Executives & Managers

This Raising the Bar of Internal Audit training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The training methodology includes case studies, group discussion, group work and interactive exercises and videos, pre & post course assessments will also be given to enhance learning outcomes for participants and to measure the effectiveness of this training. The instructor will also facilitate learning by encouraging the delegates to test and critically appraise any theories and concepts on the training course.

• AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course