Managing Audit Projects

Are you in charge of managing audit projects, but struggling to deliver quality audits on time and on budget? This course will teach you the essentials of project management in a performance audit context, including:

  • Understanding the relationship between good project management and a successful audit
  • Applying the basic knowledge and skills across audit phases to translate resources into a high quality, on time and on budget audit
  • Collecting tips, tricks, and tools to better manage future audit projects.

Who Should Participate?

This course is intended for performance auditors who perform project management functions.

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In-Person
Virtual

Agenda

This course is delivered over 3 days. Course agenda for in-person offerings will be available shortly.

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Course Format

Our instructors can come to you and provide you with an interactive course that includes individual and group exercises, lectures, and presentations. Contact us for more information.

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Pricing

Prices for in-person courses can be provided upon request.

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Agenda

This virtual course is delivered over 3 days. The course outline below is provided as a guide. Number of hours include teaching time and breaks.

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Course Format

This virtual course is delivered on our Adobe Connect platform. It includes a mix of instructor-led content, interactive exercises, and break-out sessions and will require up to 3 hours of individual work outside course hours.

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Pricing

Member: $1,079

Non-member: $1,379

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Day 1 | 5.5 hours

  • Project Management in a Performance Audit Context
  • Budgeting and Scheduling

Day 2 | 5.5 hours

  • Budgeting and Scheduling (cont’d)
  • Scope of the Audit
  • Managing Relationships – Your Team

Day 3 | 5.5 hours

  • Managing Relationships – Auditee, Senior Audit Management
  • Project Monitoring and Control Documentation and Reporting
  • Project Close-Out
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Accreditation

Course hours can be submitted for CPE or CPD credits, subject to approval by IIA, CPA Canada, or other professional associations.

Testimonials

“This was the best facilitated course I’ve done in the long time. So well organised and the presenters treated everyone and everything with good humour. I felt it was OK to raise issues and get things wrong.”

“I really valued how practical the course was – you blended project management with auditing extremely well. I am confident that our staff benefited from this course and will use the concepts immediately…”

“The most valuable thing I learned was really understanding the differences between my auditor hat and project management hat. I often didn’t realize that all of these things that come up (disruptive behaviours, managing stakeholder expectations, issues with scheduling) were normal and there are tools available to help manage what sometimes cause me quite a bit of stress!”

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