Leading Successful Audits

Leading successful audits is a complex task that requires auditors to master multiple elements: planning and scoping, quality control, professional judgement, continuous improvement, as well as people and relationship management. This course will focus on three cross-cutting areas:

  • People, i.e. WHO you are working with and what is expected of the relationship; as well as leading up, leading down)
  • Content, i.e. WHAT work needs to be done: strategic thinking, scoping, knowledge of business, gathering evidence, developing recommendations, etc.
  • Process, i.e. HOW the work gets done, project management, etc.

Who Should Participate?

This course is targeted to auditors who have or will have the responsibility for supervising or managing the work of more junior auditors.

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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 5 hours of individual and group work between Day 2 and 3 outside of course hours. Participants will be asked to identify an audit topic and scope an audit.

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Pricing

Member: $1,029

Non-member: $1,329

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Day 1 | 6 hours

  • Leading People – Overview of Relationships and the Audit Process
  • Leading People – Building Relationships (Part 1)
  • Leading Content – Scoping Audits

Day 2 | 6 hours

  • Leading People – Building Relationships (Part 2)
  • Leading People – Nurturing Relationships
  • Leading People – Mending Closing Relationships

Day 3 | 6 hours

  • Leading Process – Ensuring Audit Quality
  • Leading Thinking – Strategic Thinking
  • Scoping Presentations Debrief
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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

“I believe it is a very useful course that will benefit auditors across the nation. It is great to be able to have such a course for us to offer to our performance audit profession.”

“I found the course to be perfect for my level (about to start management, but with lots of audit experience).”

“Overall it was great. I loved how there were no right or wrong answers, respecting people’s views and encouraging everyone to participate and actually paying attention to us.”

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