An intensive professional development training course on
Risk-Based Auditing
Focusing the Audit Attention on
the Things that Really Matter
Why Choose Risk-Based Auditing Training Course?
This Risk-Based Auditing Course is designed to help audit professionals elevate their approach by integrating risk management principles into every stage of the audit process.
Many organizations claim to follow risk-based audit practices, yet few have embedded them effectively to generate measurable impact. This Auditing Training Course empowers participants to develop a robust, strategic audit plan that aligns with the organization’s most critical risks. Using globally recognized tools and frameworks, participants will learn to prioritize audits, integrate risk registers into audit programs, and challenge management’s risk assessments with confidence.
This Auditing Course also explores coordination strategies with other assurance functions, ensuring that the audit team contributes holistically to organizational governance. Whether you’re building a new risk-based framework or enhancing an existing one, this course offers practical, real-world solutions for delivering high-value audit outcomes.
What are the Goals?
By the end of this Risk-Based Auditing Training Course, participants will be able to:
- Deliver measurable value through a strategic, risk-based audit approach
- Identify and audit high-risk areas with clarity and assurance
- Evaluate risk appetite and align audit efforts accordingly
- Challenge management’s risk assessments using structured frameworks
- Design audit plans that integrate directly with enterprise risk registers
- Coordinate audit activities with other assurance providers to eliminate overlaps
- Apply a proven step-by-step approach to executing risk-based audit assignments
Who is this Training Course for?
This Auditing Course is ideal for professionals seeking to strengthen or transform their audit practices with a risk-based mindset. It is especially valuable for:
- Heads of Internal Audit
- Audit Managers and Team Leaders
- Senior Auditors and Assurance Professionals
- Risk and Compliance Officers
- Quality Assurance Managers seeking a risk-based methodology
- Business Unit Leaders wanting to understand audit's role in enterprise risk
Whether you're new to risk-based auditing or looking to refine your current process, this course will enhance your capability to deliver high-impact audit results.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This Auditing Training Course is highly practical, using a blend of proven adult learning techniques to reinforce comprehension and real-world application. Delivery methods include:
- Interactive Presentations: Highlighting risk-based audit principles and tools
- Case Studies: Based on real-life scenarios for hands-on learning
- Step-by-Step Frameworks: Clear guides for risk-based audit execution
- Group Exercises: Promoting collaborative strategy development
- Templates and Tools: Provided in digital format for immediate workplace application
Participants will return to their roles with actionable insights, strategic tools, and enhanced confidence to lead or contribute to effective risk-based audits.
The Course Content
- The modern risk-based audit (RBA) approach
- How risk-based audit has changed the face of auditing
- The importance of dealing with the audit risks not just the business risks
- RBA and ERM (Enterprise risk management)
- The ISO 31000 international risk standard
- Auditing strategic risks
- Risk Workshops
- Other methods of risk identification (including root cause analysis and Monte Carlo analysis)
- Assessment of Risk Mitigation
- Determining the preventative, detective and corrective controls
- Auditing the ERM process
- Assessing the Key risk indicators
- The Internal audit strategy
- The audit Universe
- Preparing a strategic audit plan
- RBA KPI’s
- Developing the annual plans
- The use of audit technology (CAAT’s)
- Planning a risk-based audit (Initial brainstorming)
- The risk-based audit step by step
- The RBA programme – worked example
- The RBA deliverables
- Monitoring of action plans
- Determining an audit risk and control assessment
- Auditing brand and reputation
- Risk based audit of projects
- Reviewing joint ventures
- Environmental auditing
- Auditing the marketing function
- Auditing performance management
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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