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Advanced Audit Skills

Internal and external audit contribute in many ways to the smooth running and proper accountability of an organisation. Ever increasing demands are placed on the skills and expertise required of audit practitioners to add value to the organisation and provide assurance.

Our Advanced Audit Skills course will confirm best practice in risk-based auditing, examine latest developments and their impact on auditors' work, and introduce advanced techniques enabling participants to undertake effective audits of diverse activities.

Who should attend
Practicing auditors and audit managers in the public, private and NGO sectors. The course is open to any participants with some experience of standard audit practices in business or government

How you will benefit

• By the end of the course you will be able to:
• improve governance, risk management and integrity in your organisation
• apply the principles of risk-based auditing to a wide range of operations
• plan and conduct audit assignments using the latest standards and techniques
• extend the boundaries of audit work and undertake specialist audits
• introduce control self-assessment and risk workshops
• develop and enhance the audit function, maximising its value

Course profile
The dynamic audit role, environment and contribution

• Developments and current issues in auditing
• Foundations of audit: assurance, advisory and other roles
• Forms of audit and review: roles and responsibilities; audit committees
• Impact of latest audit standards, from IIA , INTOSAI and others
• Best practices in risk-based auditing; the role of audit in risk management

Leading edge auditing: practices and techniques

• Updating the charter; strategic audit planning
• Auditing the critical systems, risks and controls - financial and other
• Control assurance reporting; using control self-assessment
• Auditing systems under development
• Computer- assisted auditing techniques (CAATs)
• Audit skills, qualities and competencies
• Managing the client and other relationships
• Conducting risk workshops; audit and consultancy
• Communication and interviewing techniques
• Auditing the control environment and "soft" issues
• Developing and leading the audit team

Extending audit's scope

• Enhancing the audit service; making audit more effective
• Developments in governance and enterprise risk management
• Performance ("value for money") audits
• Corporate social accountability; ethical and environmental audits
• Business integrity; fraud and corruption prevention programmes

The advanced Internal Audit course organised by Crown Agents, is the best internal audit traning that I have ever attended.

Mr Salum Mbwana
Senior Internal Auditor - Bank of Tanzania